Newspapers

• Christian Science Monitor is a fine publication, with an innovative electronic edition that's interactive, allows you to customize your news and gives it to you in audio form or even in e-mail form.
• The New York Times is a standard in the industry, though the Website does charge a fee for archive searches, as do most newspapers nowadays.
• The Washington Post is another benchmark publication, known for breaking the Watergate scandal and also notably for being burned by reporter Janet Cooke, who won the Pulitzer prize for a bogus story in 1980. The Post ate crow and returned the prize.
• The Miami Herald, a Pulitzer-winning Knight-Ridder paper.
• LA Times is another fine general-circulation paper ...
• ... as is the Boston Globe
• The Detroit Free Press and The Detroit News are the joint-operated dailies in my area, both suffering after a labor strike two years ago that was never really settled. Their loss of readership and advertising was The Oakland Press' gain.

  Unfortunately, at this time, The Oakland Press,
  where I work, does not have an online edition
  I can recommend.
  It does, however, have a User Friendly page
  started by a former staffer, Jeff Green.

• A friend left us to work at the Denver Post.
• Another dear friend went back to Texas work at the Caller-Times in Corpus, Christi.
• Michigan Live is a Newhouse on-line publication combining six daily newspapers into one Web product.
• The Chicago Tribune is another good daily that I often read.
• The Daily and Sunday Mail On-Line, a Scottish newspaper that put David Duchovny in a kilt!
• USA Today despite being a much-maligned Ganett vehicle, was nonetheless a pointer to millennial newspaper formats.
• The Society of Newspaper Design is a good reference point and job search site for designers working in my field.
• The Slot is for copy editors.