For general information, go to The New York Times (www.nytimes.com), because it is “the paper of record.” Since it can use multimedia, the online-edition has some advantages over the paper-edition—most notably, the Times Topics, and the Science section.
Other online national newspapers are The Washington Post (www.washingtonpost.com), which received many of the Pulitzer Prizes for Journalism this year, The Boston Globe (www.boston.com/bostonglobe), the Chicago Tribune (www.chicagotribune.com), and the Los Angeles Times (www.latimes.com)
The Wall Street Journal requires a paid subscription for its online edition, but it does provide a free online classroom edition at (http://classroomedition.com/cre/index.html)
For weekly magazines, the two most popular ones are Time (www.time.com/time/magazine) and Newsweek (www.newsweek.com). Like The New York Times, these online editions have the advantage of multimedia presentations.
Some other online editions of magazines are The Atlantic (www.theatlantic.com), The New Yorker (www.newyorker.com), and Vanity Fair (www.vanityfair.com). These magazines provide longer articles on topics such as politics, society, and culture.
If you want numbers and statistics on various issues, the Pew Center (http://pewresearch.org) has become a popular source for many journalists and researchers.
If you are the more audio-visual type (i.e., you don’t like to read), then you may be interested in watching some Frontline (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/view) documentaries. These videos may not be as entertaining as what you can find on YouTube, but they are definitely much more substantive.
