News & Current Events Blogs

Coverage, commentary and opinions about the latest headlines and most recent happenings in the news.

Resources in this category:

The Annotated New York Times
http://nytimes.blogrunner.com/

From the site’s "Learn More" page: "The Annotated New York Times tracks blog postings that cite articles published by The New York Times. These blog fragments are grouped by author or by topic to form virtual, distributed conversations that span multiple sites and that center around the coverage of news events as reported by the Times."

BuzzMachine … by Jeff Jarvis
http://www.buzzmachine.com/

A personal blog by the Sunday Editor of the NY Daily News and a columnist on the San Francisco Examiner. He responds to a lot of other journalist and media blogs as well as to current events.

Editor's Cut
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/edcut

Instead of being the first with the latest, this left-leaning blog by Katrina vanden Heuvel, the managing editor of the political magazine, The Nation, rather reflects on what has been on the news and draws visitors’ attention to what should have been there.

Gawker
http://gawker.com/

This collaborative blog is basically a New York gossip column, but it often has good but trendy media and media industry news. Snide and more than a little crude, it bears the traits of being published by Nick Denton’s Gawker Media.

Lost Remote TV Blog
http://www.lostremote.com/

Not exactly a journalist weblog, this collaborative blog discusses the interaction of TV and new media. News and commentary about TV, TV-related websites, and blogs are shared.

Pop Candy
http://blogs.usatoday.com/popcandy/

From the USA Today website, Whitney Matheson, the writer of USA Today’s weekly entertainment column, "Pop Candy," provides not only the latest in mainstream entertainment news and websites but also a little bit of cattiness so you can laugh at the celebrities you constantly obsess over.

Rocketboom
http://www.rocketboom.org/

From the "about" page: "Rocketboom is a three minute daily videoblog based in New York City. We cover and create a wide range of information and commentary from top news stories to quirky internet culture. Agenda includes releasing each new clip at 9am EST, Monday through Friday. With a heavy emphasis on international arts, technology and weblog drama, Rocketboom is presented via online video and widely distributed through RSS."

unmediated
http://www.unmediated.org/

A collaborative blog about developing or decentralized media production and distribution, such as how wireless internet access will be distributed or how video blogs have problems with URLs and the www.

White House Watch - by Dan Froomkin - at washingtonpost.com
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/04...

A special column on the washingtonpost.com providing one reporter's (Dan Froomkin's) daily view on what's happening in the West Wing or with the people who work there as reported by selected major newspapers, periodicals, web sites, and blogs. Free registration required.