Huffington Post

Graphic Design: They use the same blue-ish green color throughout the entire page. A cornflower blue color and sky blue are also used throughout the page. Light grey lines are used to differentiate between sections, like most other news sites. Move from homepage, the nav bar and big news bar changes colors for the section of the news you are in.

Information Design: 3 columns. The big news stories are at the very top, above the header and mirrors the navigation bar, below the header. The top story takes up all 3 columns, and the majority of the viewable page. The rest of the stories have to be scrolled down to (unlike most news sites).

Interface Design: Extremely large image appears with a very large headline for the top story. All the other stories fill in the 3 columns down the page. The most popular stories are highlighted with a blueish green colored box. The far left column has stories written by people outside of their staff.

Document Production: multiple external stylesheet, some for different browsers, mobile style sheet, some embedded style

Scripting & Programming: Javascript, RSS, widgets, podcasts

Multimedia: images, videos, comments, tweet about it, share on facebook, buttons to describe your reaction to a story, e-mail

USA Today

Graphic Design: The header is full of color, and each navigation tab is a different color. The rest of the color shows up farther down the page where the top stories from each section are located, and the sections letters of the name correspond to the tab color at the top of the page. Grey boxes point out the beginning of a new section, stands out because the background is white.

Information Design: 7 columns. Main stories are on the top, underneath the navigation bar, and they take up 5 columns. The most popular stories are also near the top, as well as the weather. Most news sites, I've noticed, have these things at the top.

Interface Design: When refreshing the page, nothing new happens. The largest image stays the same. The navigation bar is located at the top underneath the header. The top pics, mainly multimedia, changes every 30 seconds or so, but the viewer can also scroll through. There are 5 sections/images that change.

Document Production: several style sheets, some are for different internet browsers, some embedded style, mobile stylesheet

Scripting & Programming: RSS feeds, javascript, widgets, podcasts

Multimedia: videos, images, comments, recommend, voting, games

The Washington Times

Graphic Design: color dominates this page. Each section is separated by colors inside boxes with rounded edges. Blue and red seem to be the dominate colors, like other sites, with gray as a third complimentary color. The 'main attraction' is the largest box.

Information Design: 4 columns and the column on the far right of the screen consists of advertisements. Underneath the main section, the links to opinion articles and blogs are listed. Towards the bottom of the page, there are links to the top articles for each section of the page, like most news sites.

Interface Design: There are ads above the header. The header isn't anything special, just their papers name and ways to subscribe. Below that is the nav bar, like most sites. Large image floated to the left in the main section of the page. It is made like a cube and the reader has the ability to change the image or if the page is idol for a few seconds, the whole page goes black just to change the cube, not very efficient.

Document Production: mobile stylesheet, several external stylesheets, embedded style

Scripting & Programming: javascript, RSS, podcasts

Multimedia: images, 'question of the day' survey, video