Text Only News Sites

Graphic intensive sites are horrible on mobile. I am a news junkie. And I like to check the latest news on my phone. But waiting for Facebook plugins to load, or ads to load just degrade the entire experience.

I had a really old computer and I used to browse the web with the lynx text browser in MS-DOS. Text news sites, like the old Excite news portal, were a god send.  I was able read the AP wire and just get the news.

A while back I found a site that had a list of text only or news sites that looked really good on mobile.  I am going to try to recreate it here. It will be a running list, so check back.

News

• CNN
• NPR
• Christian Science Monitor
• AP News 

Australia

• Sydney Morning Herald
• The Age
• Canberra Times
• WA Today

Other

• Memeorandum
• Hacker News
• MetaFilter