RawStory

Raw Story (sometimes RAWSTORY) is a progressive website. It not only reports on breaking news within minutes from when stories are published elsewhere, but importantly they also provide summaries of the article in addition links to the original. This is especially helpful since they cover news on subscription websites like The New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal.

Across the top of the page on the left are trending stories, in the center are stories that editors deem to be the most significant, and on the right breaking news.

Not only that, they cross publish many articles from Salon which is free to read but doesn't have a comments section while Raw Story does. Thus readers are able to comment on Salon stories. The Raw Story Disqus comment section enables readers to use bold, italics, etc. and post illustrations. There are often spirited debates in the comment sections and snarky illustrated posts. An example of these shown below.

Raw Story owns AlterNet and also cross publishes their stories.

Over the past year they have added more columnists such as David Edwards, Travis Getty, Sarah Burris, and Tom Boggioni. They write thought provoking essays. They also recently hired staff reporters who cover Capitol Hill and report on interviews with politicians.

They publish stories from the Agence France-Presse wire service.

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Raw Story + Exclusives is a subscription part of the website which includes Raw Story Investigates. It costs $49 a year or $79 annually for a version with no ads. I have the former.

Don't believe the Koolaid crowd reviews. They are truthers and fact deniers. This is a very good source of real news and smart commentary!

There is no doubt that raw story is a left leaning media outlet, and for that reason, it should never be your sole source of news, but they have stories that you will not find elsewhere. And to be clear, they are real stories, not made up crap intended to fire up liberals, you can generally trust what they publish.

Please stop with the interruption of videos updates with 2 or 3 commercials during the video clip. It makes me want to go to the other side HP. I love you site but cannot handle the voice commercial and now the video commercial taking over when I am watching a clip. Please stop

Ifbyou paid attention to the renowned journalists, political critics and the like, who advocate and patronize this news source, you cannot deny it's integrity whether you agree with what it choosrsbto report on or not. If you dislike the content so much, redirect your attention to a publication you do like. Why do so many people feel their complaints deserve to be published? That they are intitled to have their negativity and whining published?