Hi Hubskiiers, I'm looking to load up my newsreader and bookmarks toolbar with new news websites. I'm looking for websites which provide articles of greater depth and focus than can be found on general purpose news websites purporting to cover everything.
An example of type of website I am talking about is TorrentFreak, https://torrentfreak.com , which discusses industry, technology, law, and policy issues surrounding torrenting and copyright.
Another example might be https://spacenews.com , which seems to go into the current private, public, and military issues surrounding spaceflight, rather than simply reporting a description of space missions after they happen.
So, what's an area you work in or enjoy reading about?
What are some good news websites covering this area in depth?
I'm a big fan of HackerNews for startup/programming/general science articles (not just news). If I post something here on Hubski, there are good odds I saw it there first.
http://nautil.us/ : a science magazine which focuses on a different subject every month from different perspective. http://www.anandtech.com/ : Hardware news and Tech Reviews, it's useful when you are looking to buy a new phone/computer
The IEEE Spectrum has fantastic articles on technology. Highly recommended. Edit for more depth: They have articles on upcoming technologies, robotics, electrical engineering, programming, AI, and so on. Its an interesting read, and the IEEE also publishes Peer Reviewed content under IEEE Xplore.
Some scientific journals have news websites associated with them. Two good ones are Nature News and Science/AAAS News.
Speedhunters is the first website I always introduce to people who have a dabbling interest in cars. They cover a ton of aspects of car culture in general, often feature some very interesting builds, and they always have absolutely amazing photography. Similarly, for people who might have a slight interest in MMA, I often point them in the direction of Fightland. The articles themselves tend to be more on the light side of things, both in content and depth, but I actually think for them that's a good thing. It's enough to get allow people to get a feel for the culture without overwhelming them with technical details that might go over their head. Edit: I can't believe I forgot to mention, Bleeding Cool, Comic Book Resources, and Comics Alliance are all great sources for comic book fans.
CoffeeGeek for everything that's hip in the world of coffee (e.g., pour-overs, Aeropress, espresso machines, cold brewing)
For space, NASASpaceFlight is also usually very good.
Tue most underrated news that I know of is spacesafetymagazine.com. They use the safety theme to talk about everything related to space exploration, and it's not as boring as it seems. They have a great coverage of international stuff, not just NASA.
I'm a filmmaker and film editor working in the world of independent arthouse cinema and my primary resource for news is Keyframe. The news editor David Hudson does an phenomenal job gathering news and events listings that I check on a daily basis, especially during big festivals like Cannes or Sundance when it becomes indispensable. The site also often does in-depth features that are always interesting and worth a read.
Some of the stuff here is a little over my head every now and then, to be fair (it is aimed as people with engineering degrees after all), but it is a good break from a lot of the watered-down or hyped-up stuff the mainstream newspapers report on science articles. http://cen.acs.org/index.html aldaily.com is a really good curated website that focuses on literature and intellectual correspondence. It puts out three articles a day - a book review, an in-depth article, and an essay, as well as bearing a long list of special links on the sidebar for respected sources of news and insight. Being a South African news website, http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/ might not be what all of you are looking for, but it has some of the world's best investigative journalism (something that seems to be evaporating the world over), and provides a good outside perspective on US politics, as well as well-written literature reviews and broad coverage of African goings-on. Just a really good paper.
I haven't read from it in a while, but Governing magazine. It basically covers news in the U.S., but they really only focus on state-level and local-level issues, as opposed to national politics and international issues.