Background on the news

Combing the journalism blogs is one of the best ways to find collections of links for researching background information on news of the day. A couple good examples today:

Poynter's Al Tompkins has pulled together lots of background on Sen. Ted Kennedy and brain tumors.

And this Guardian Newsblog entry on Mourning China earthquake victims online is really interesting for finding sources of opinion and links on China that might not otherwise show up. Lots of links here to online blogs, tweets, and videos, with some discussion of press coverage of 'mourning day'.