A List Of Text-Only News Sites

Text-only website are quite useful, especially today.

Web pages are increasingly filled with ads, videos and other bandwidth-heavy content.

Here is a list of text-only, clutter-free news sites:

• CNN Text Only — U.S. news from CNN
• 68k News is a text only version of Google News
• NPR News Text Only — news from National Public Radio (US)
• CBC Low Bandwidth — low bandwidth version of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
• F6O’Clock (or the original F5O’Clock) — political news headlines from Reddit
• Post Online — a text-only version of Post Online (UK) — focuses on “global events that impact the US and world economies”
• Christian Science Monitor Text Only — news from Christian Science Monitor
• LegibleNews — news from Wikipedia in an easy-to-read format (Global)
• Lobsters — computing topics — community centered around link collection and discussion
• Skimfeed — a long list of technology headlines
• Readspike — another long list of technology headlines
• Popurls – another news aggregator
• Wikipedia Current Events — current events form Wikipedia
• HackerNews — technology news social site
• HackerWeb — a more accessible version of Hacker News
• Alterslash — the unofficial Slashdot digest
• Mobile Wikipedia — mobile web version of Wikipedia

These are stripped-down sites with minimal images:

• Minimalist Today’s Guardian
• New York Times Wire

Using Your Browser’s Reader Mode

You can also use “Reader Mode” many web browser. This mode strips the page down to text and content-related images. You can read how to enable this mode here.