The Bivings Report Has Their Top Ten Newspaper Website list up and I can’t agree with one of them so below is my own top 5 list.  I don’t discriminate on size, blog, news, paper, country, whatever.  These are just ones I think hit home runs.  Enjoy.

1. The Las Vegas Sun – I would say that this is THE BEST newspaper site in America however, it is not a traditional newspaper. Only a smaller version of the site is printed and distributed, as an insert, in the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Still, this site kicks ass. It utilizes multimedia news reporting throughout the site, not just features. If you visit the site often, you’ll notice the front page layout changes every day, there are no rigid templates. The site uses Django and the Ellington CMS to do this as well as the genius of Rob Curley.

It has been rumored that this site will become completely cash flow positive in late 2009 / early 2010.  That would make it the first general interest news site that I know of which is economically sustainable. Continue reading →