<p>I seem to spend more and more time online and, as a result, don’t read as much of the paper or catch the 11 pm news the way I used to…somehow I feel like I’m not as informed as I used to be or want to be. Thinking that getting my news online might be the way to go. I lean to the left and am particularly interested in politics and business–maybe the Wall Street Journal or NY Times? What news website do you like most and why?</p>
<p>yahoo. it got great variety and i always read the comments sections especially if its for some obscure and ridiculous subject. a lot are really funny.</p>
<p>Nytimes.com, but you need to have a subscription for more than 20 articles a month.</p>
<p>cnn.com</p>
<p>Yahoo News is my home page. It picks up news articles from WSJ, NYT and other major sources.</p>
<p>(good to know that the Romanians found the warheads that went missing this morning :))</p>
<p>I read the NY Times, the CS Monitor, the Washington Post and of course, CNN and MSNBC for quick and dirty headlines. I have a ‘free’ subscription to the NY Times until the end of the year because of my heavy-duty use of the website. I gave up watching news on TV a while back. Too much opinion and not enough ‘news’. I scan my local newspaper most days and feel that is enough local news. I consider myself very informed though I also don’t spend much time on things like the Casey Anthony case. To me that pure sensationalism and does nothing to enhance my knowledge base or my life. I knew nothing about the case until the verdict came down.</p>
<p>For financial news I go to Bloomberg, Yahoo Finance and CNBC (though I take that website with a grain of salt).</p>
<p>ETA: If I had to pick just one website it would be the NY Times hands down.</p>
<p>If you clear your cookies, you can read the NYT without paying. Also read The Guardian, Wapo, Democracy Now, several left leaning blogs. OP, WSJ is not a left leaning news source. You don’t really get any on depth information online IMO, and need to read offline,
though some good periodicals - Economist, FT - are online. McNeil/Lehrer and BBC may also be online.</p>
<p>For national/international news, Google News has an unbeatable variety of sources. I look at my local paper online, and also Politico if you really like politics.</p>
<p>Lol, the WSJ is owned by News Corp (Rupert Murdoch’s company, obviously in the news now), which also owns Fox. WSJ has always leaned right from a business sense, but the editorial page has taken a hard right turn in all ways since that acquisition in 2007. So if you are left leaning, keep that in mind.</p>
<p>NYTimes and BBC.</p>
<p>I go to google news and see what is getting lots of coverage. Click on the stories of interest. I also get both the NY Times and Washington Post daily afternoon summaries.</p>
<p>My daily routine:</p>
<p>[The</a> New York Times <a href=“subscriber”>/url</a>
[url=<a href=“http://www.businessinsider.com%5DBusiness”>http://www.businessinsider.com]Business</a> Insider](<a href=“http://www.nytimes.com%5DThe”>http://www.nytimes.com)
[The</a> Daily Beast](<a href=“http://www.thedailybeast.com%5DThe”>http://www.thedailybeast.com)
[The</a> Huffington Post](<a href=“http://www.huffingtonpost.com%5DThe”>http://www.huffingtonpost.com)
[Fox</a> News](<a href=“http://www.foxnews.com%5DFox”>http://www.foxnews.com)
[[url=http://abcnews.go.com/US/WireIndex/listIndex</a>] US Headlines - ABC News](<a href=“http://www.nydailynews.com/index.html][/url][url=http://abcnews.go.com/US/WireIndex/listIndex”>http://www.nydailynews.com/index.html)</p>
<p>No every day but I do like:</p>
<p>[Al</a> Jazeera, English](<a href=“Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera”>http://english.aljazeera.net/)
[International</a> Headlines - ABC News](<a href=“http://abcnews.go.com/International/WireIndex/listIndex]International”>http://abcnews.go.com/International/WireIndex/listIndex)</p>
<p>google news
drudge report
instapundit</p>
<p>… i read lots of links from google news (bbc, nytimes, wsj, guardian, huffpo, etc)</p>
<p>What, no TMZ love?</p>
<p>NYTimes. </p>
<p>You can keep reading beyond 20 if you just delete the address ending (such as anything after the ?). I just found that by accident. But also on my Macbook, there is a button called “Reader” in the address bar which, when I click on it, puts the article in Reading View mode (regardless of whether I’ve met my NYTimes quota or not).</p>
<p>The WSJ’s editorial page has always been a bit to the right of Attila the Hun, but its news reporting is still some of the best, and though it has gotten a bit more slanted under Murdoch and Co, it is still really good. The best business reporting by far is The Economist, problem with that is it is pretty expensive, even the online version, but they are some of the best (I like them, they lampoon everyone, right and left, and poke holes in most of the twaddle passing as ideas these days:)</p>
<p>My favorite is the Onion News, if only because they make you realize how ridiculous most so called News is these days. For broadcast news, very few beat the BBC for news reporting.</p>
<p>For anyone who is into biotech and other tech news, Xconomy is one of the best sources of such news.</p>
<p>For the headlines, I just Google News. From there, I can easily pursue whatever interests me. I don’t have a favorite news site; it varies depending on the story.</p>
<p>The Onion News: A tomahawk of truth into the skulls of lies
Its where i get all news from</p>
<p>I don’t think anyone has mentioned NPR yet (.org)</p>
<p>Bloomberg.com Has good collection of news from around the world with a emphasis on business.</p>
<p>a bit off-topic: Yahoo news revamped their site a few weeks ago and I find the same stories linger for a while and they miss breaking news. </p>
<p>I also like my local newspaper’s site for local news.</p>
<p>I’ve been meaning to ask this question, but always forget when I pull up CC. Thanks, OP!</p>