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.

[cellio]

Oh! Huh, I should have thought to look there. Thanks.

[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.

[cahwyguy.livejournal.com]

I second news.google.com. If you want to get rid of a lot of the autorun videos, take a look at this link (http://www.pcworld.com/article/2858421/how-to-stop-autoplay-videos.html#tk.rss_all) (which was in last Saturday's news chum). The major problem with Google News is that it sometimes links to sites with paywalls. In that case, you can often just search for the headline to find the information on another site. One nice things about google news is that you can define categories of particular interest to you.

[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

[cellio]

Thanks -- that's quite readable on the computer! (Haven't checked the phone yet.)

Five broken keys? Ouch. And they're probably the oft-used ones, hence stressed, hence broken.

[cellio]

That's very readable, thanks! I hope it continues to fly under the radar.

I get my Pittsburgh news from an actual daily newspaper -- yeah, I know, how archaic, but I still like it. So that's already covered.

[cellio]

Thanks for the tip!