Andy Rutledge redesigns the NYT without permission. I think many of the choices here are in the right direction: featuring authors of opinion columns, going big and visual for main stories. I like especially the strict separation, visually, of news from opinion

He is so *precise*. "People do not react to abstractions."

Million + images from the TIME archives, hosted and searchable by Google. Free for personal use.

Eerie lomo-esque documentary photography of Iraq, Chad and others.

Ira Glass on how to become a great storyteller.

Anderson Cooper is meh, but this is a well-designed news blog theme.

A brilliantly executed interactive documentary site about slums: where 1/3 of the world's urban population lives.

A vlog documentary web series by a few Iraqi 20-somethings in the midst of trying to live in Baghdad.