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Ask HN: How do you read the news?
- mbrock 11y agoI don't, I gave up entirely, haven't checked a single news site for months, except niche community sites like HN. When people start talking about Donald Trump around the lunch table I just finish eating and leave.
- twoquestions 11y agoGoogle News is where I generally go so I'm not out of the loop completely, but it does take discipline to not dig into garbage stories. That and Fark, at least they're funny.
- whatok 11y agobloomberg terminal, here, and quartz early email
- Joona 11y agoNo, but I come across some on IRC, hear from friends and such.
- usermac 11y agoNews360 iOS app on iPad is pretty relaxing.
- partisan 11y agoGoogle News, HN. It's a limited offering, but on the upside, I don't usually hear about the news items that social media goes crazy over.
- DanBC 11y agoI don't read any news. I listen to a lot on BBC Radio Four which I have on most of the day.
- echonline 11y agoAnyone wish the could rate the news? Started an app to rate news called Jirno on IOS. BETA is VERY BASIC but want to let users rate news and it's writers. FB mentions proving emoticons show ratings well
- echonline16 11y agoAnyone wish they could rate - not comment- the news? Like music, restaurants,etc. Started an app to rate news called Jirno on IOS. BETA is VERY BASIC/BORING but it's a start to let users rate news and its writers. FB mentions proving emoticons show ratings well.
- hacknat 11y agoPretty sure this is what most news organizations do already and is why celebrity news, disasters, and horse race politics is all they report on.
- echonline16 11y agoAgreed Hacknat. Would be good to have something independent of the publisher
- hacknat 11y agoThe Economist, paper copy, once a week. It has the benefit of keeping hype out of its perspective. Treating human disasters and wars as more important than the American primaries is sanity that I can't live without. Keeping up with the alleged 24 hour news cycle in Western media (BBC included) I think leaves people poorly informed and over-hyping predictable events.
- galfarragem 11y agoThe Economist is the only paper (and digital) magazine I bought during last 5 years I think. While most products can't survive the change, great products normally can. It wouldn't surprise me if in 50 years there is still a paper copy of it.
- tmaly 11y agoI mostly stick to HN. I use to look at drudgereport just to get an idea of the headlines, but now time is too short. I am trying to take a page from the 4 hour work week.
- debacle 11y agoreddit /r/news, /r/worldnews, and local subreddit. Comments first.
- zanek 11y agoI use www.Skimfeed.com to get a wide view of whats going in the news, politics, tech I dont have a ton of time generally, so I allocate about 10-20 minutes to scanning and reading interesting content
- chollida1 11y agoBloomberg terminal. They allow you to filter news by - sector, - portfolio, - adhoc screen that you define how you want - geographic area - news source, ie twitter, specific newspaper or website, - by author, analyst, assuming they've permissioned you to get their research You can get each story sent in real time or by daily digest if that works better for you. Though its a bit expensive to pay $1650/month if its coming out of your own pocket and you only use it for the news.
- ruraljuror 11y agoI subscribe to the Boston Globe and use the app. (I live in Boston).
- blabla_blublu 11y agoI subscribe to NewYorker and try to get in some deeper reading of a few topics every week. I like their insightful journalism on a variety of topics, which is fun to know about and of course, their cartoons! Other than that, I use quartz once in a while - a nice interactive messaging format based news application. I recommend that for people who just want a few notable headlines. Additionally, I skim through NPR and NYTimes first thing in the morning for the headlines for the day.
- Zezima 11y agoThe Economist. Their ability to capture the "nuance" and detail of any story from the perspective of those who are most involved is absolutely unmatched. Here's an example. For the majority of my life I've been a hardcore gamer. By that I mean esports, tournaments, strategy and more. My most recent game was Dota which I played for 3 years then moved onto Dota 2 for 4 years. The Economist wrote a story on the esports explosion and culture and they TOTALLY nailed it. They were able to capture the emotion and passion people have for video games, and why someone like me would travel across the country to go to tournaments, and spend hours watching professional players on Twitch TV. I had seen dozens of articles in the New York Times, Washington Post, the New Yorker, but none of them really captured what it was like to follow the esports scene. The Economist always captures the essence and nuance of many different stories around the world, perfectly. That's why always come back to it for excellent stories and news.
- Nicholas_C 11y agoGoogle news, Hacker news, Deadspin, local newspaper website, and WSJ's the 10-Point (daily news summary).
- senjindarashiva 11y agoThe Guardian Weekly, for basically the same reasons as people have mentioned regarding the economist. Weekly issues on long form without to much of the "news flash" of daily news.
- rman4040 11y agoI read Hacker New for better time management.