(Disclaimer: Google engineer and former Google News TL from a while back) Honestly, it's really difficult. It would be great if something like Google News work

(Disclaimer: Google engineer and former Google News TL from a while back) Honestly, it's really difficult. It would be great if something like Google News worked (and it does generate a diverse set of biases), but it is just aggregating a relatively biased set of sources. Slower cycles (weekly, monthly) are generally better, and honestly you could switch to entirely getting your news on a weekly basis and being just fine. So I personally would stay away from 24h news coverage. Local papers generally don't have a diverse editorial staff, and national papers often have deeply entrenched editorial staff. You can read the wires directly, but coverage is spotty and so you'll end up with a biased viewpoint regardless. Blogs and social media all suffer from a lack of editorial process, and while there may be better information buried deep it's not worth the misinformation burden to find it. For weekly cycles, I like The Economist. It does have a bias, but it is a fairly politically independent one.