The Newsroom

Beat 01

The Wires

Start here. Wire copy is the raw material everything else gets rewritten from.

• Reuters — the global wire of record; if it happened, their stringers were already there.
• Associated Press — the cooperative wire behind half the world's front pages, direct from the source.
• NewsNow — live headline aggregator; their topic pages are the modern stand-in for the old AFP wire feed.
• Interfax — Moscow-headquartered wire; indispensable if you follow Russia and the CIS.
• TASS — Russia's state wire, successor to ITAR-TASS. Read for the official line, with eyes open.
• IRNA — Iran's official wire in English; one of the few still standing from the old portal's bar.
• UPI — the scrappy third wire, still filing after all these years.
• WN.com — World News Network's search: news plus a deep photo archive going back decades.

Beat 02

US Press

The American front pages, from papers of record to the capital's cable feed.

• The New York Times — the gray lady's full apparatus: investigations, bureaus, and the occasional mea culpa.
• The Washington Post — Washington's paper of record; national security and politics are its home turf.
• CNN — the 24-hour pioneer, still the fastest television-first newsroom on the planet.
• ABC News — broadcast network news with a deep archive and a calmer register than cable.
• Los Angeles Times — the West Coast paper of record; strong on the Pacific Rim and the borderlands.
• The Washington Times — the capital's conservative daily; read it alongside the Post and triangulate.
• C-SPAN — unfiltered gavel-to-gavel government: hearings, briefings, and floor debates, no pundits.
• PBS — public broadcasting's newsroom: NewsHour's slow, deliberate take on the day's events.
• Deseret News — Salt Lake City's daily with a national footprint; family- and faith-angle coverage.
• TIME — the weekly newsmagazine, still setting the agenda one red-bordered cover at a time.

Beat 03

World Press

Outside the American bubble. If a story matters everywhere, it reads different from somewhere else.

• BBC News — the world's most-trusted newsroom, with bureaus in places other outlets forgot.
• CBC News — Canada's public broadcaster; the northern neighbor's view of the continent.
• The Globe and Mail — Canada's paper of record; business and foreign affairs done properly.
• Toronto Star — Canada's biggest daily; strong investigative streak out of Toronto.
• The Irish Times — Dublin's paper of record; Europe with an Irish accent and long memory.
• Belfast Telegraph — Northern Ireland's daily; essential reading on the island's unfinished business.
• Gazeta.Ru — Russian online daily; one of the independent-minded survivors of the Runet.
• Kyodo News — Japan's wire service in English; the Asia-Pacific desk's early warning system.
• Khaleej Times — Dubai's English daily; the Gulf's business and expat lens on the region.
• NZ Herald — New Zealand's paper of record; the view from the far edge of the map.
• allAfrica — aggregator of African outlets; the continent's own wires, in one place.
• PakTribune — Pakistan's English-language desk; South Asia from the inside.

Beat 04

Alternative / Independent

The dissenting wall. These desks argue with the front pages — that's the point. Read them against each other.

• Antiwar.com — non-interventionist foreign-policy coverage; the longest-running antiwar desk online.
• Mother Jones — muckraking magazine; corporate malfeasance and dark money are its beat.
• Salon — one of the web's first news magazines; progressive commentary with teeth.
• The Nation — the grand old weekly of the American left; argument as a civic duty.
• The Village Voice — the legendary alt-weekly; downtown New York's id, still publishing.
• World Socialist Web Site — Trotskyist daily; labor struggles and class analysis you won't find elsewhere.
• Free Republic — the grassroots conservative forum; raw, unfiltered, and very much alive.
• Political Wire — Taegan Goddard's political news roundup; the insider's morning scan.
• SF Bay Guardian — the late, great San Francisco alt-weekly; its archive is a time capsule of dissent.

Beat 05

Tech / Security Press

The desks that cover the machines, the networks, and the people trying to break into both.

• The Register — Britain's irreverent tech tabloid; biting, funny, and usually first on infrastructure stories.
• WIRED — the magazine that documented the digital revolution as it happened; still essential.
• Telepolis — Germany's deep-dive tech-and-society magazine; surveillance and net politics in depth.
• Slashdot — "news for nerds" since 1997; the comment section is half the story.
• New Scientist — the science weekly; where the tech press goes to check its homework.
• Space.com — the space beat: launches, telescopes, and the occasional classified payload.
• Military.com — defense news for the people who serve; hardware, policy, and veterans' affairs.
• MarketWatch — the markets desk; follow the money and the money will tell you the story.
• The Atlantic — long-form ideas and reportage; the tech industry's favorite mirror.

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