This is meta.
The “failing” New York Times and the Washington Post are frequently cited here on Daily Kos. I often cite the Detroit Free Press and the Detroit News, and Forbes, too. Also Crain’s Detroit Business and Motor City Muckraker.
We have the ability to italicize any text we want, and I choose to use that ability to italicize the titles of print publications like the ones I just mentioned. Motor City Muckraker is Web-only, which is why I did not italicize it in the preceding paragraph.
So what about Web-only publications? For example, from 2010 to 2016, I wrote for Examiner.com. I have pretty much always referred to it as “Examiner.com” and felt no need to ever italicize that.
Gizmodo and io9 perhaps present a thornier problem. It is my understanding that io9 used to be its own thing but is now part of Gizmodo. Should either of those be italicized? To italicize io9 would to me feel as wrong as italicizing “The Way We Live,” a section of the Detroit Free Press (at least prior to the 1996 strike, I’m not sure about now).
It is understandable for someone to assume that Gizmodo has a print edition like Wired. I italicize Wired because it has a print edition, but when I read a Wired article, it’s almost certainly on the website.
And of course should Daily Kos be italicized? It kinda sounds like the name of a newspaper, but even allowing for Web-only publications to be considered newspapers, it’s kind of a stretch.
I might be making pointless distinctions. Or I might be unaware of a style guideline posted somewhere on this site. Let me know in the comments.