If you're interested in serious, chewy news, it's recommended. The site is fascinating: really *deep* investigative journalism, handled in a fully crowdsourced way. If the site has a weakness, it's that it is wonkish to a fault, not just summarizing the news in the usual fashion but getting into the details and reasoning. In contrast to most US media (with their navel-gazing focus on America to the exclusion of all else), it is thoroughly international in outlook.
It's a small project yet, necessarily scattering its limited resources among the projects its citizen-editors find interesting, and their passion for rooting out What's Going On sometimes feel slightly over the top. But it has the potential to become something genuinely important, demonstrating a new and possibly much better model for news reportage. Check it out...
