Gangrey.com

I found this Web site off of happyjournalist.com through a link that said "Good Writing." And Gangrey.com is just that, and only that. The tagline under the Web site name reads "Prolonging the slow death of newspapers," while the About Us section simply says: "A writer's approach to helping bail water out of a sinking ship."

It's a frequently updated blog with most of the posts made by the mysterious "ben" that simply posts incredible journalism day to day and allows people to comment on it. Stories posted to the site include a New York Times piece about a bullied kid, to the story of a Marine killed in Iraq through the eyes of his two-year-old daughter.

Most of the articles posted to the site are longer, narrative, feature pieces that contain multimedia presentations, but there are also some shorter, equally well-written pieces that don't fall into that classic standard of superb journalism.

I could stay on this Web site all day and just read the original posts, not even accounting for how much time I could happily spend reading the replies which tend to include similar works of amazing journalism or debate on the merits of the piece. One reply post to a war story was an old Ernie Pyle piece, and being that he's basically my hero, the site shot even further up on my list of things I like.

Beyond the simple posting of great stories are quick posts with fun pictures from flickr, including this one, in a post titled "The Stories Around Us":
and a post about narrative songs, which have apparently been a topic of conversation on the site lately.

This one is definitely going on my RSS aggregator.