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Rosecrans Baldwin and Andrew Womack started The Morning News as an email newsletter in 1999. Soon after, they began publishing the newsletter as a news-oriented weblog/zine with a New York flourish.

In 2002, they relaunched The Morning News as a daily-published online magazine with a dedicated staff of some of the web’s best writers. Since then, The Morning News has been consistently recognized as one of the internet’s leading independent publications and its readership has grown to include—we hope—you.

I was going to a do a piece on Sol for Insight—do you know that magazine? It’s one of those little magazines. I mean, they’re such schmucks up there, really mired in ’30s radicalism. —Diane Keaton, Manhattan

Or, as others have said:

Think excellent writing. Think timely exposes of everything from American capitalism to an oxygen-less dead zone in the ocean the size of New Jersey. Think wit and style and articles that make you want to change the world or just point and laugh at it. Think, period. This is The Morning News. Read it. —The Idaho Statesman

This online magazine is published weekdays, offering links to Headline News stories (some serious, some strange) along with humor pieces, social commentary and other features by its own contributors. It’s based in New York City, so it has a Gotham sensibility (see “The Brooklyn Pigeon Wars”). Don’t miss the “Spoofs and Satire” page. —TIME Magazine, “50 Coolest Websites 2006”

The gold standard for writing on the web. —Said the Gramophone

Since 1999, the Brooklyn-based webzine The Morning News has delivered breaking news and features from a variety of respected sources. But there’s also plenty of humor and quirkiness. With a throng of outstanding writers, The Morning News might be more nourishing than the newsprint diet that has previously dominated your breakfast. —Utne Reader

The Morning News feels like a symbiotic mix between The New Yorker’s crackling insight and NPR’s This American Life. There seems to be room on TMN for anything worth publishing…the common denominator of TMN’s content remains mirthful intelligence. —Paste Magazine

Everything that newspapers should be but aren’t, The Morning News is already an internet institution—but it still deserves another pat on the back. With wildly eccentric reportage, curious personal essays, thoughtful interviews, and the ever-unhelpful-and-entertaining Non-Expert advice column, the News is nearly as essential as strong coffee for waking up on the right side of bed. —Flavorpill

Notes on Links, Style, Culpability, and Reprints

With our Headlines section and frequent use of hyperlinks in stories, we are happy to connect to things around the internet but make no claim of responsibility for their content. The Headlines in particular are not intended to be a summary of the day’s news, nor are they objectively selected or considered a sound journalistic effort at covering current events. They are simply what interests our particular (and peculiar) tastes in news each day, nothing more.

The Morning News adheres to its in-house style guide for all editorial questions; you’re welcome to refer to it too.

Also, The Morning News assumes no legal liability whatsoever for the works of its contributors. The Morning News also assumes no legal liability for the content of any other web site or materials hyperlinked to or from The Morning News.

The rights to all works published at The Morning News are owned, everlasting, by the creators of the works. Should you wish to reprint any article from The Morning News, please contact us and we will get in touch with the author. (Any story reprinted, however, must include a citation saying "This article was originally published at The Morning News.")