No matter where you live, these are some of the best news websites:
- BBC News: One of the most respected news organizations on the web; great for world news.
- The New York Times: The New York Times continues to be one of the best sources for world news on the web.
- Reddit: One of the top sources on the web to find crowdsourced news, including breaking news stories that are updated by community members with insight and further resources in real-time. If you’re looking for truly up-to-the-second news with commentary from “real people,” Reddit is a good bet.
- Google World News: Thousands of sources update constantly on Google News to deliver news directly to your computer or mobile device.
- Wikinews: Pick your geographical region and/or language, and you’ll see a community-curated repository of news articles gathered by people all over the world — exactly replicating the Wikipedia collation process.
- Alternet: On the web in different iterations since 1997, Alternet provides an independent viewpoint of breaking news, mostly centered around U.S. events.
- Reuters: One of the main U.S. breaking news wires, focusing on both U.S. and international events. Many stories from Reuters are syndicated on other sites.
- PBS: Public broadcasting news for the last several decades; news here tends to be extremely well-balanced and non-partisan, and also includes good background information for further reading.
- C-SPAN: Watch legislative news as it happens; focusing on U.S. related events only.
Online Newspapers
Online newspapers are how most people get the news these days from all over the world — every major newspaper in every country, in addition to most city newspapers, are freely available online for everyone to read.
This makes monitoring news globally and locally even easier; and you can also see what other local newspapers are saying as well, no matter where you might be located.
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