Where do you go for news?

[The Stealthy One]

Where do you get your daily news fix? Here's my list of must-read news sites (I check in at each several times a day!):

DailyFinance
bizjournals | National Business News
Reuters.com - World News, Financial News, Breaking US & International News
CNN.com - Breaking News, U.S., World, Weather, Entertainment & Video News
Business, financial, personal finance news - CNNMoney.com
Breaking News, Weather, Business, Health, Entertainment, Sports, Politics, Travel, Science, Technology, Local, US & World News- msnbc.com
Stock Market News, Business News, Financial, Earnings, World Market News and Information - CNBC.com
Bloomberg.com
Technology News - CNET News
InternetNews Realtime News for IT Managers
Welcome to E-Commerce Times

What news sites do you frequent?

[jonathanfigaro]

I usually go Business & Small Business

[PsiPro]

/. and fark

Slashdot - News for nerds, stuff that matters
Drew Curtis' FARK.com

[SendBlast]

News
Fox
Cnn
Yahoo


Comedy
Daily show
MSNBC

[SOCMiles]

I pay as little attention to news as possible, and encourage all of my teammates to give it up, too. Too much negative energy.

[bananaman]

Newspapers are losing money to online news, so Rupert Murdoch wants to charge people for reading online news.

Would you pay?

[The Stealthy One]

I pay as little attention to news as possible, and encourage all of my teammates to give it up, too. Too much negative energy.

That's interesting - reminds me of what Tim Ferriss said in The Four Hour Workweek. Just curious - do you ever have the itch to read the news just to see what's up?

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bananaman, absolutely not! I would never pay for online news. Rupert Murdoch is getting crazier the older he gets - I used to have a lot of respect for him (in fact, I still do), but it's way past time for him to retire.

[paul2145r]

I keep up with many of the above sources (btw- thanks for the links to the ones I haven't had a chance to look at yet).

Other sites on my daily must-read list:

Engadget
Gizmdo
Yahoo News

[bananaman]

bananaman, absolutely not! I would never pay for online news. Rupert Murdoch is getting crazier the older he gets - I used to have a lot of respect for him (in fact, I still do), but it's way past time for him to retire.

To me, it makes perfect business sense for Murdoch to want to charge for online news. He owns newspapers which are rapidly losing money.

Newspapers make their money from selling space in the classifieds, and as less people read newspapers, less money is made by the classifieds.

But online news sites don't have a classifieds section. People sell stuff on ebay, Craiglists, forums and free classifieds/directories.

Journalists writing for online news still have to be paid, there are still costs associated with investigating, editing and publishing news. Online news sites are spending money producing content, but have no reliable source of income(classifieds). And if there is no income, the quantity of journalists and the quality of the news takes a dive.

News is not important enough for me to pay for, but from a business perspective, I can see the reasoning for Murdoch to want payment. Paying for online news is no different than paying for newspapers - you are paying for the content.

[Delighted33]

Digg, Techcrunch, Google News. I'm mostly into the social network type news sites these days.

[andrewlm]

I mainly use these for daily news -

Fox
Cnn
Yahoo news

[The Stealthy One]

To me, it makes perfect business sense for Murdoch to want to charge for online news. He owns newspapers which are rapidly losing money.

Newspapers make their money from selling space in the classifieds, and as less people read newspapers, less money is made by the classifieds.

But online news sites don't have a classifieds section. People sell stuff on ebay, Craiglists, forums and free classifieds/directories.

Journalists writing for online news still have to be paid, there are still costs associated with investigating, editing and publishing news. Online news sites are spending money producing content, but have no reliable source of income(classifieds). And if there is no income, the quantity of journalists and the quality of the news takes a dive.

News is not important enough for me to pay for, but from a business perspective, I can see the reasoning for Murdoch to want payment. Paying for online news is no different than paying for newspapers - you are paying for the content.

I do understand where he's coming from - except he bought bad businesses in the first place (same with MySpace). Seems to me he's lost his mojo (hence my comment stating he should retire!). I would say Rupert needs to look to the Huffington Post for an up-close look at how new media functions. HP thrives on ad revenue. The news is free.

[janny]

I generally go for google..

[BarKeeper]

Well, if you ask me, I prefer to visit CNN official web site, because there are many interesting and latest news and articles.

[PsiPro]

With regards to paying for news and the dying newspaper industry. The days of paying for the everyday news are over, dead, dying and gone. And the industry is starting to collude to implement paywalls on their websites. And like stealthy, I will not be paying for world or national news.

I would however gladly pay for access to good financial articles, or any other specialized newspaper styled websites on a specific interest. A general interest newspaper just doesn't have enough content I'm interested in to make it worth any amount of money.