About Blue Frog News
Blue Frog News is a free daily page of news and things to do for New York's Capital Region: Albany, Schenectady, Troy, Saratoga and Glens Falls. There is nothing to sign up for and nothing to pay.
How it works
- Every headline goes straight to the story on the publisher's own site. Blue Frog News shows the headline, a line or two from the publisher's feed and a small picture when the feed has one.
- The news updates every hour. Events update once a day. Weather updates every hour.
- Each tab shows 30 stories to start. You can ask for more, add extra tabs and change how the page looks in Settings. Your settings stay in your own browser.
- When several outlets cover the same story it shows once, with links to the others.
- Local news leaves out murders, arrests and crime reports. There are no sports and no obituaries anywhere on the site.
- World and USA are hard news only. Opinion columns, reviews and lifestyle pieces are left out.
- Stories about Donald Trump are held to about 1 in 10 unless you change that in Settings.
- Sources are center or left leaning and free to read. The two exceptions are the Times Union and The Daily Gazette, which limit free articles. Their stories are marked paywall.
- Events come from venue calendars, tourism calendars and ticket sellers across the region. Food and drink specials, trivia nights and government meetings are left out.
Sources
World
- BBC
- Al Jazeera
- The Guardian
- NPR
- PBS NewsHour
- DW
- France 24
- ABC News
- CBC News
- Euronews
- The Independent
- ABC News Australia
- GZERO
- Middle East Eye
- Drop Site News
- Responsible Statecraft
- Global Voices
- The Conversation
- Declassified UK
- Novara Media
USA
- NPR
- NPR Politics
- PBS NewsHour
- PBS Politics
- The Guardian
- BBC
- ABC News
- ProPublica
- Democracy Now!
- Mother Jones
- Common Dreams
- Truthout
- Salon
- HuffPost Politics
- The 19th
- Jacobin
- In These Times
- Zeteo
- Popular Info
- Heather Cox Richardson
- Robert Reich
- Paul Krugman
- Katie Couric
- Status Kuo (Jay Kuo)
- Civil Discourse (Joyce Vance)
- Steady (Dan Rather)
- The Handbasket
Local
- Spectrum News 1
- NEWS10 ABC
- WNYT
- WAMC
- Saratoga TODAY
- Saratoga Living
- The Chronicle (Glens Falls)
- Adirondack Explorer
- New York Focus
- City & State NY
- Times Union paywall
- The Daily Gazette paywall
Local also includes Capital Region stories found through Google News, from outlets that pass the same rules.
Good News
- Good News Network
- Positive News
- The Optimist Daily
- Reasons to be Cheerful
- Good Good Good
- Sunny Skyz
- Upworthy
- The Guardian (The Upside)
- YES! Magazine
- Nice News
- Fix the News
Tech and AI
- The Guardian
- Ars Technica
- TechCrunch
- BBC
- NPR
- 404 Media
- Techdirt
- Engadget
- Ethan Mollick
- Simon Willison
- Import AI (Jack Clark)
Science and Space
History
- Smithsonian Magazine
- JSTOR Daily
- Black Perspectives (AAIHS)
- The Public Domain Review
- The Guardian
- Medievalists.net
- World History Encyclopedia
- Archaeology Magazine
- NPR History
- ScienceDaily
Health
Climate
Business
Rock and Music
- Ultimate Classic Rock
- Louder
- Loudwire
- Blabbermouth
- Best Classic Bands
- Rock Cellar
- Guitar World
- Consequence
- NPR Music
- The Guardian
- Stereogum
- Classic Rock History
- Goldmine
SEO
- Search Engine Roundtable
- Search Engine Journal
- Google Search Central
- Search Engine Land
- Search Engine Watch
- Google Search blog
- Backlinko
- Seer Interactive
- Previsible
- Moz Blog
- Ahrefs Blog
- Glenn Gabe
- Kevin Indig
- Marie Haynes
- Rand Fishkin (SparkToro)
- Mike King (iPullRank)
- Aleyda Solis
- Lily Ray
- Cyrus Shepard (Zyppy)
Events
Discover Saratoga, Discover Schenectady, Visit Lake George, Albany.com, CliftonPark.com, GlensFalls.com, LakeGeorge.com, Ticketmaster and the calendars of local venues such as SPAC, Proctors, The Egg, Caffe Lena, Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Universal Preservation Hall and the Park Theater.
Weather, sun and moon
Forecasts and air quality from Open-Meteo. Alerts from the National Weather Service in Albany. Sunrise, sunset and the moon are worked out for Albany.
Quote of the day
Inspirational quotes provided by ZenQuotes API.