Part of me wants to put The Outline up on a pedestal as a "new media" undertaking that subverts the mainstream and presents useful nuggets of information in an extremely well designed way. They approach news differently by making it less snooze to look at. But I'm not sure that's right. I've only spent a little bit of time on it but I'm not quite sure what it is yet.

It's definitely news and it's certainly well designed but it's unclear if it's aggregating chunks of information to tease you elsewhere or if they're presenting their own insights. Maybe both. Maybe it's just an informative homepage.

All that's to say, I can't quite describe what it is but I do recommend reading it. Start here maybe?