recommend general, skimmable news site?

[cellio]

I've been using cnn.com for my daily national/world news roundup, but they just redesigned the site and made it ugly and bloated. So I'm in the market for a news site that isn't.

I'd like a list of headlines that I can click through, not junked up with videos and audio files, animations, partial news stories on the main page (putting a highlight in a tooltip is fine), or other "improved design" -- just headlines linking to text stories, ideally sorted for US and world news, and if they want to put other categories on there like sports or entertainment I don't care so long as they're labelled so I can skip most of them. (I'll look at "tech" if it's there. I have never cared about sports or celebrity gossip.)

It should not require a humongous browser window and shouldn't break accessibility. Bonus points for working (as a web site, not an app) on my phone.

All news sites are biased, but I'm looking for one that's not too out of whack in any direction -- I want to have some reasonable confidence in the credibility of the news I'm reading, knowing that if something's important it calls for additional fact-checking.

Any recommendations?

Comments

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

News.google.com is a list of clickable headlines.

[unique_name_123]

Cleanest one is Fox News. Snicker.

[goldsquare.livejournal.com]

If Flash will do, perhaps http://newsmap.jp/

[magid.livejournal.com]

I often find myself browsing the BBC.

[eub.livejournal.com]

Have a look at the Seattle Times' text-only page (http://seattletimes.com/text/), specifically the "Nation & World" section. It's very lightweight as a web page -- zero images, almost no Javascript, just good old-fashioned text links, no ads, brilliantly fast (It works out much better on mobile than their supposed mobile site.) Besides the Seattle Times' own stories, it includes stories from the AP, from the New York Times, and maybe other sources.

(Weaknesses: Won't have any Pittsburgh. It really is text-only and occasionally you'd have liked an illustration image to go with a story. Not much science, and their Tech is mixed in with the Business. I have a fear that the whole page has only survived as-is due to being overlooked, and will get killed when a manager notices it.)

I also use news.google.com, but my impression is that its ranking algorithm doesn't tend to show me a lot of articles I'd find interesting -- in particular if say just the NYT writes a think piece about something, but it's not a Story that everybody's reporting, I feel like I don't see those. Also, its science/health sections often link to these weird fourth-rate sites. It does come up with some articles that aren't included on the Seattle Times page, and it updates faster, so I find it worth a visit.

[david (from livejournal.com)]

What does the Guardian's US edition look like to you?

http://www.theguardian.com/us

(I post this away from home on little netbook with five broken keys - thus pithy!)

Davïd