Culture, Literature & Media [From their website] Thank you for stopping in at The Awl, a New York City-based web concern established in early 2009. The Awl intends to encourage a daily discussion of the issues of the day—news, politics, culture (and TV!)—during sensible hours of the working week. We believe that there is a great big Internet out there on which we all live, and that too often the curios and oddities of that Internet are ignored in favor of the most obvious and easy stories. We believe that there is an audience of intelligent readers who are poorly served by being delivered those same stories in numbing repetition to the detriment of their reading diet. We believe that there is no topic unworthy of scrutiny, so long that it is approached from an intelligent angle, but that there are many topics worthy of scrutiny that lack coverage because of commercial factors. We believe that the longform essay has a home on the Internet, and that the idea of "too long; didn't read" is exactly as shortsighted as its TL;DR acronym. This does not mean that we eschew frivolity; far from it. Who doesn't enjoy a funny video, a current meme, or anything about bears? We love bears. And Science! In the end, however, we return most frequently to New York City and its self-centered, all-consuming industries: media and publishing, finance and real estate, politics and capitalism and gamesmanship.
 [From their website] "Book publishers love Bookslut because of its unique Web presence and audience access." -Robert K. Elder of the Chicago Tribune When you advertise on Bookslut, you are advertising on a highly reputable website. We have been named one of the 50 best websites by Time and one of the best literature websites by The New York Times. We are a respected tastemaker, and your ad will be shown to some of the savviest readers on the web. Below are just some of the ways you can benefit from advertising on Bookslut.  [From their website] Brain Pickings is the brain child of Maria Popova, an interestingness hunter-gatherer and curious mind at large, who also writes for Wired UK andThe Atlantic, among others, and is an MIT Futures of Entertainment Fellow. She has gotten occasional help from a handful of guest contributors. Brain Pickings is a human-powered discovery engine for interestingness, a subjective lens on what matters in the world and why, bringing you things you didn’t know you were interested in — until you are.
[From their website] BuzzFeed has the hottest, most social content on the web. We feature breaking buzz and the kinds of things you'd want to pass along to your friends.
 [From their website] Celebs, news, entertainment, relationships, sex, style, horoscopes, Top Ten, games.
 [From their website] Goodreads
is the world’s largest site for readers and book recommendations. Our
mission is to help people find and share books they love. Goodreads
launched in January 2007.
[From their website] Google
Trends is a public web facility of Google Inc., based on Google Search,
that shows how often a particular search-term is entered relative to
the total search-volume across various regions of the world, and in
various languages. The horizontal axis of the main graph represents time
(starting from 2004), and the vertical is how often a term is searched
for relative to the total number of searches, globally.[1] Below the
main graph, popularity is broken down by countries, regions, cities and
language. Note that what Google calls "language", however, does not
display the relative results of searches in different languages for the
same term(s). It only displays the relative combined search volumes from
all countries that share a particular language (see "flowers" vs
"fluers"). It is possible to refine the main graph by region and time
period. On August 5, 2008, Google launched Google Insights for Search, a
more sophisticated and advanced service displaying search trends data.
On September 27, 2012, Google merged Google Insights for Search into
Google Trends. [2]
Sports.
 [From their website] The Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism is dedicated to trying to understand the information revolution. We specialize in using empirical methods to evaluate and study the performance of the press, particularly content analysis. We are non partisan, non ideological and non political. On July 1, 2006, the Project for Excellence in Journalism joined the Pew Research Center in Washington, D.C, which houses six other research projects funded by thePew Charitable Trusts. Our goal is to help both the journalists who produce the news and the citizens who consume it develop a better understanding of what the press is delivering, how the media are changing, and what forces are shaping those changes. We have emphasized empirical research in the belief that quantifying what is occurring in the press, rather than merely offering criticism, is a better approach to understanding. The Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism publishes the Daily Briefing, a digest of media news, every morning, and also produces detailed reports that analyze key trends in the news industry, including the State of the News Media, an annual report on American journalism. [From their website] The Los Angeles Review of Books is a nonprofit, multimedia literary and cultural arts magazine that combines the great American tradition of the serious book review with the evolving technologies of the Web. We are a community of writers, critics, journalists, artists, filmmakers, and scholars dedicated to promoting and disseminating the best that is thought and written, with an enduring commitment to the intellectual rigor, the incisiveness, and the power of the written word.  [From their website] Longreads are changing the way people read online. They’re stories that are best enjoyed away from your desk — whether it’s on a daily commute, an airplane, a subway, or your couch. It’s in-depth stories, perfect for the iPad, iPhone or Kindle, and apps like Read It Later, Flipboard and Instapaper. Longreads posts links to new stories every day — they include long-form journalism, magazine stories from your favorite publications (The New Yorker, Esquire, The Atlantic), short stories, interview transcripts, and even historical documents. (For the record: Longreads are typically more than 1,500 words.)
[From their website] “The indispensable literary site” – The New York Times Welcome to The Millions, an online magazine offering coverage on books, arts, and culture since 2003. The Millions has been featured on NPR and noted by The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and The Village Voice, among others.
The Internet has brought forth an unprecedented flowering of news and information. But it has also destabilized the old business models that have supported quality journalism for decades. Good journalists across the country are losing their jobs or adjusting to a radically new news environment online. We want to highlight attempts at innovation and figure out what makes them succeed or fail. We want to find good ideas for others to steal. We want to help reporters and editors adjust to their online labors; we want to help traditional news organizations find a way to survive; we want to help the new crop of startups that will complement — or supplant — them. We are fundamentally optimistic.
[From their website] The Morning News (TMN) is an online magazine of essays, art, humor, and culture published weekdays since 1999. In addition to our features, each day includes our morning and afternoon headlines, with links to the most interesting news items, articles, and oddities around the web. At TMN, we believe in good writing, tight editing, wit, curiosity, making mistakes, and solving them with tequila. We speak through what we publish. If you’re new here, we recommend starting with our vision of the future (“Planet Zoo” by Anthony Doerr), our galleries of artwork (Debbie Grossman’s “My Pie Town” or Martin Parr’s “Retratos Pintados”), or the Non-Expert’s suspect advice column (Jennifer Daniel and Erik Bryan’s “Can We Date”).
[From their website] While maintaining the civility and fairness that are the hallmarks of public radio, OTM tackles sticky issues with a frankness and transparency that has built trust with listeners and led to more than a tripling of its audience in five years. Since OTM was re-launched in 2001, it has been one of NPR's fastest growing programs, heard on more than 300 public radio stations. It has won Edward R. Murrow Awards for feature reporting and investigative reporting, the National Press Club's Arthur Rowse Award for Press Criticism and a Peabody Award for its body of work.
[From their website] Founded in Paris by Harold L. Humes, Peter Matthiessen, and George Plimpton in 1953, The Paris Review began with a simple editorial mission: “Dear reader,” William Styron wrote in a letter in the inaugural issue, “The Paris Review hopes to emphasize creative work—fiction and poetry—not to the exclusion of criticism, but with the aim in mind of merely removing criticism from the dominating place it holds in most literary magazines and putting it pretty much where it belongs, i.e., somewhere near the back of the book. I think The Paris Review should welcome these people into its pages: the good writers and good poets, the non-drumbeaters and non-axe-grinders. So long as they're good.”
[From their website] The Poynter Institute’s e-learning project, News University (NewsU), announced today that it has registered its 250,000th user, marking a significant milestone for a program founded on the principles of flexible, focused and affordable journalism training. Over the last eight years, Poynter has created an online learning environment that recognizes the need for ‘just-in-time’ training for diverse audiences. NewsU, with its more than 275 training modules in four languages, offers the world’s largest online journalism curriculum. [From their website] The nation's largest nonprofit organization serving creative writers.
 [From their website] Rookie is… …an online publication for teenage girls featuring writing, photography, illustrations, videos, and more from a lovely staff and our readers. The site features monthly “issues,” each revolving around a theme. We post just three times a day – after school, after dinner, and before bed. There are lots of ways to navigate through the site – you can sort by categories and tags and authors and browse and search and more. We’ll leave you to discover your favorite method.
[From their website] Welcome to TheRumpus.net. We don’t say that lightly—we’re thrilled you’re here. At The Rumpus, we’ve got essays, reviews, interviews, advice, music, film and poetry—along with some kick-ass comics. We know how easy it is to find pop culture on the Internet, so we’re here to give you something more challenging, to show you how beautiful things are when you step off the beaten path. The Rumpus is a place where people come to be themselves through their writing, to tell their stories or speak their minds in the most artful and authentic way they know how, and to invite each of you, as readers, commenters or future contributors, to do the same. What we have in common is a passion for fantastic writing that’s brave, passionate and true (and sometimes very, veryfunny).(more)
[From their website] Slate is a daily magazine on the Web. Founded in 1996, we are a general-interest publication offering analysis and commentary about politics, news, business, technology, and culture.Slate's strong editorial voice and witty take on current events have been recognized with numerous awards, including the National Magazine Award for General Excellence Online. The site, which is owned by The Washington Post Company, does not charge for access and is supported by advertising revenues.
[From their website] Devouring culture.
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