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Ask HN: What are some of the best designed news websites?

6 points by lachlanj ↗ HN
In terms of visual design and graphics what are some of the best looking / modern news websites on the web today?

Also are there any news websites that get the balance between ads and content right in terms of layout and graphic design?

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beatpanda
The Los Angeles Times is one of the best- http://latimes.com The Guardian is good too- http://guardian.co.uk

Drop me a line if you're working on anything newspaper or journalism related and you'd like to chat about it- my username at google mail.

jeffool
I really don't like most news sites. The average site like Guardian or Fox News is just "meh." CNN's "above the fold" is okay, having image thumbnailed stories and then a text-heavy list on the left side. That said, I don't actually "like" it. The pictures don't actually convey what the story is about, just a general "Oh, hey, dude standing in front of fire. And an Osama story." But the layout itself isn't bad.

Is there any reason the NY Times doesn't recreate their front page on the website? I mean, the "top fold" concept ("everyone, this is the big story,") is pretty much directly applicable to the web, after all.

The "blog" approach is wearing thin, (especially among aggregators) and the "top rotator" that so many sites use is pointless at best, and goddamn annoying usually.

But, all of that said, Google News is my homepage. newsmap.jp is no stranger to my browser either. Maybe I'm a sucker for flash (the concept, not the tech,) but allowing me to select which sections I'm seeing, color-coded, and size/coverage adjusted, just makes sense to me.I wish it also translated too. I'd love to be able to get a better idea of foreign coverage from it.

Wow, this whole wall of text, and I guess my point is "the best anyone has done so far, is in not being a COMPLETE pain in my ass." Sorry.