Where do you get your news from online?

[oldbea]

I've not explored all the online newspapers.

BBC not really taking my fancy.

I love The Week magazine but can't get it where I am and it isn't online.

I like news and stories and comment and opinion.

Where do you click to read?

I go on cnn online, it has a US and interntional edition, I don't really like sky or bbc news online. I will go on if its a particular story, that I am interested in

The Daily Mash fulfills all my news needs...

The best newspaper websites are the Times and Guardian, in my opinion. Best commentators in those too. Telegraph and Independent don't come really close, though the Telegraph has improved a lot recently.

FT and Wall Street Journal Europe are both very high quality though both have a lot of material for subscribers only. Same goes for the Economist. The London Evening Standard site is also quite nice.

The BBC news site is ridiculously bland. And the Sky site is hopelessly simplistic.

Amongst the tabloids, the Mail site is the best laid out. The Sun site is exactly as you might expect - garish and nasty. The Express, Mirror and Star sites are all rubbish.

I also love reading the American news sites. I often browse the NY Times for international news. Also love reading those massively long articles in the New Yorker.

If you are interested in comment rather than news, then specialist blogs are usually far higher quality than the mainstream media.

NOTE: everything above is about the quality of the sites only - I am not talking about the best in terms of any particular political viewpoint.

Above all Google is your friend. Google News is a brilliant aggregator...

Google and Yahoo both have news sections, but for collecting headlines I suggest trying newsnow.co.uk

It has different "interest areas" as well as headlines within minutes of them appearing, but you can also enter a keyword (unfortunately limited to 1 word for 'free' users) and it will show all headlines including that word. You may see the headlines appear on different newspaper sites and take your pick as to how many you view, to get different perspectives, if that interests (eg for media studies).

Note that lots of sites dislike Google aggregating because they in effect limit the likelihood of visiting the originator of the news item, who then lose out on clicks/views, while Google might get them... so much so that some sites are likely to not just ban Google but take them to court. A similar threat has been made by some papers to NewsNow but it seems odd considering that NewsNow only displays the headlines and source of the item (so gives full credit to the newspaper, and you need to view the original to read the article, so 'chalk and cheese' in their approach, in my view).

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It's a little off-topic but I read news on my iphone mostly, when I get spare minutes here and there (like walking home after dropping DS off at nursery)

My favourite iPhone news apps are:

The Independent (you get loads of stories and opinion)
Bloomberg - for financial stuff it's unbeatable
Huffington Post for American news. It's quite left-leaning and has a lot of political news.

BBC have a good world news phone app, however the quality of their journalism is questionable. Nothing too in-depth, just rewrites of AP wire stuff and press releases. Although Nick Bryant's blog from Australia is interesting.

I read Timesonline and the Telegraph and occasionally dip into the Guardian. I also read Washington Post online.... have done for years, and do not know why.... i am not American and have never been there. I really cannot recall how or why I got onto it. I used to be a devotee of BBC online but too boring now.