This Site Lets You See Whats Trending on Reddit

For journalists familiar with the platform, Reddit can be a rich source for story material. For the uninitiated, presented with pages and pages of equally weighted links, mostly bare of thumbnails and organized loosely into subreddits, it can be overwhelming.

To combat the problem and make it easier to use for journalists, Benji Lanyado, a freelance journalist and digital producer for The Guardian, created the website The Reddit Edit. The site simultaneously displays the top three stories at any given time from five popular subreddits: /r/worldnews, /r/politics, /r/technology, /r/science and /r/pics, plus the reddit.com homepage. The stories are displayed in colorful columns with large t…
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