http://www.travelmole.com/
Travel and tourism industry news. Hat tip Colin.
http://www.ushahidi.com/
Open source project that allows people to crowdsource news / crisis information. Send updates by sms, email, online, etc. Citizen journalism.
http://notthenation.com/
A parody news site based around The Nation newspaper in Bangkok.
http://truemors.com/
Truemors is a rumour site by Guy Kawasaki. It's a sort of digg meets twitter type service where anyone can post content and it gets rated by the community true or not.
http://www.michaelyon-online.com/
Michael Yon is a freelance journalist / photographer and ex American special-forces soldier who reports from Iraq, embedded with troops there.