The best version of this concept is The Week magazine in my opinion (see http://theweek.com/, though I the print version is really higher quality than the site). It includes all the major stories of the week with references and then covers all the columnists and editorials from both sides of the aisle and from around the world. For me, it is the perfect balance of brevity and comprehensiveness without feeling superficial.

AFAIK, it started in the UK and was "ported" to a US edition a few of years ago.

It is pretty easy to read in an hour or so and fills in all the gaps I missed from my sporadic news reading the previous week.