Charles Johnson site demo: Typical main navigation categories, tip form, "keep digging" links to related content. Newstex provides links to news headlines, updating live, see what AP is doing. "Blogjams" - equivalent of "Meet the Press," Topic is thrown out, then they can post comments, but in a more focused manner, perhaps more of a debate - present "two sides" but more cohesiveness desired. Archives for everything, modeled on news portals such as Yahoo! News.
[COMMENT: The jams are a nice touch, but everything is fairly traditional at this point. It will be interesting to see how the editorial mix matures.]