We all have the same sources and information to produce news, talk and, but it’s what we do with that information, how we tell the stories, how deep we dive and how we surprise our audiences that sets us apart. So, why not share our favorite bookmarks?
One must know website is www.headslinger.com. A site which allows you to view headlines from all your favorite sites in one spot. Check it out.
I asked 20 hosts, producers, reporters and anchors what their ‘go-to’ websites are for stories. Aside from social media sites, especially twitter, here are the 72 sites they listed and additional sites submitted by readers. Special thanks to Eric Jon Magnuson at North American Network, Inc. for contributing great international and humanitarian news sites.
UPDATED: 11:50 a.m. 01/03/2014
National Newspapers & Magazines
Chicago Tribune www.chicagotribune.com
Daily Beast www.dailybeast.com
Dallas Morning News www.dallasnews.com
The Guardian www.guardiannews.com
Los Angeles Times www.latimes.com
New York Times www.nytimes.com
Newsweek http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek.html
San Francisco Chronicle www.sfgate.com
Seattle Times www.seattletimes.com
Time Magazine www.time.com
USA Today www.usatoday.com
U.S. News & World Report — http://www.usnews.com
Wall Street Journal www.wsj.com
National News Sites
Associated Press http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/fronts/HOME?SITE=AP
The Business Insider www.businessinsider.com
Consortium News http://consortiumnews.com/
The Economist — http://www.economist.com
NewsLink – LINKS All US Papers, Radio & TV http://newslink.org/
Reuters www.reuters.com
Salon www.salon.com
Science News www.sciencenews.com
Yahoo News http://news.yahoo.com/
Aggregators, Entertainment, Gossip, Commentary
All Access Talk Topics www.allaccess.com/talktopics
American Journalism Review http://ajr.org/
Boing Boing www.boingboing.net
Breaking News www.breakingnews.com
Breitbart www.breitbart.com
Bust Magazine – fierce, funny, and proud to be female www.bust.com
Buzz Feed www.buzzfeed.com
Cracked www.cracked.com
The Daily Caller www.dailycaller.com
Daily Swarm – music news www.dailyswarm.com
Digg www.digg.com
Drudge Report www.drudgereport.com
Fark www.fark.com
Gawker www.gawker.com
Google News https://news.google.com/
Head Slinger “All the news, half the time” http://www.headslinger.com/
The Hollywood Reporter www.hollywoodreporter.com
Huffington Post www.huffingtonpost.com
Movie City News www.moviecitynews.com
Newser www.newser.com
The Onion – parody – www.theonion.com
Reddit – www.reddit.com
Rolling Stone www.rollingstone.com
TMZ www.tmz.com
Politics/Political Commentary
538 Blog by Nate Silver www.fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com
Data Ferrett www.dataferrett.census.gov data analysis and extraction tool-with recoding capabilities-to customize federal, state, and local data to suit your requirements.
Foreign Policy — http://www.foreignpolicy.com
Hot Air www.hotair.com
McClatchy’s national/international-news portal — http://www.mcclatchydc.com
National Review Online – conservative commentary – www.nationalreview.com
Real Clear Politics www.realclearpolitics.com
Reason (almost certainly the best source of libertarian news and commentary in the U.S.) — http://reason.com
Slate www.slate.com
Talking Points Memo –Commentary from a political left perspective www.talkingpointsmemo.com
Technology & Digital Culture
Geekwire www.geekwire.com
Gizmodo www.gizmodo.com
Mashable www.mashable.com
Nerdist www.nerdist.com
Wired www.wired.com
International News Sites
ABC (Australia) — http://www.abc.net.au/news (main news section) and http://www.abc.net.au/news/australianetworknews (subsite for Australia Network [related international TV service])
AllAfrica — http://allafrica.com
BBC www.bbc.com
CBC www.cbc.ca
Daily Mail www.dailymail.co.uk
Euronews — http://www.euronews.com
France 24 (related international TV service) — http://www.france24.com
Global Voices — http://globalvoicesonline.org
International Business Times (Newsweek’s new owner) — http://www.ibtimes.com
Inter Press Service — http://www.ipsnews.net
News.com.au (main portal for News Corp.’s Australian properties) — http://www.news.com.au
One World http://us.oneworld.net/
Radio Australia (related international service) — http://www.radioaustralia.net.au
Radio France Internationale — http://www.english.rfi.fr
The Sun www.thesun.co.uk
Humanitarian News Sites
Christian Science Monitor — http://www.csmonitor.com
Deutsche Welle — http://www.dw.de
GlobalPost — http://www.globalpost.com (including aggregated wire-service content at http://www.globalpost.com/wires)
Integrated Regional Information Networks — http://www.irinnews.org
ProPublica — http://www.propublica.org
ReliefWeb — http://reliefweb.intThomson Reuters Foundation — http://www.trust.org
The Road to the Horizon – Blogs by aid workers around the world http://www.theroadtothehorizon.org/2010/06/blogroll-aid-blogs.html
Voice of America — http://www.voanews.com
National TV Networks & Shows
ABC New www.abcnews.com
CBS News www.cbsnews.com
CNN www.cnn.com
Fox News www.foxnews.com
MSNBC www.msnbc.com
NBC News www.nbcnews.com
OWN – www.oprah.com/own
PBS NewsHour — http://www.pbs.org/newshour
Today Show – www.today.com
Sports
Bar Stool Sports www.barstoolsports.com
Deadspin www.deadspin.com
ESPN www.espn.com
Fox Sports http://msn.foxsports.com/
Grantland www.grantland.com
SB Nation www.sbnation.com
Sports Grid www.sportsgrid.com
Sports Illustrated www.si.com
Sports Press Northwest www.sportspressnw.com
Yahoo Sports http://sports.yahoo.com/
Larry Gifford 
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