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I would pay $10/month for a weekly digest of the most important world news without editorializing, clickbait, celebrity news. Just important stuff. Also I would

by jacek 9y ago

I would pay $10/month for a weekly digest of the most important world news without editorializing, clickbait, celebrity news. Just important stuff. Also I would not like it to be only US-centered (that could be optional though). EDIT: Some people asked what I mean by "important". For me, important event is the event that has potential to have a high impact on the society or any large group of people in long term. Some very recent news that I found important: results of elections in Austria, terrorist attack in Somalia, grand jury indictment against Manafort, hundreds of sexual harassment allegations in USA as a whole (I don't think reporting each individual case and celebrity implicated is important).

Splendor 9y ago
How do you personally define 'most important'?
- glintik 9y ago
  I suppose it is a key moment - most important for Mr. westonplatter0. So Service have to be smart enough taking into account user's prefs. AI and Deep Learning are good friends for that Service.
sleavey 9y ago
Shameless plug, but check out WikiTribune [1]. It was started by Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia founder) as an attempt to democratise and wikify news. It just entered public beta, but they solicited recurring donations over summer and are still accepting them - if you believe in the project, consider signing up for a few dollars a month. [1] https://beta.wikitribune.com/ https://beta.wikitribune.com/
- jacek 9y ago
  Thanks! Looks promising, I will try it out.
lukeqsee 9y ago
I have found the Economist Espresso[1] is an excellent version of this. And it's only $3 / month. [1] http://www.economist.com/digital http://www.economist.com/digital
- jacek 9y ago
  Thanks for the tip. I would prefer the option to read on a bigger screen though. I hate reading on my phone.
  - lukeqsee 9y ago
    They do allow email subscription, if it's preferable to you. http://www.economist.com/newsletters http://www.economist.com/newsletters (No affiliation, just a happy subscriber.)
patja 9y ago
If you can pay a little more, just get a subscription to The Economist
toddsiegel 9y ago
I would pay about $10 for that too.
ameister14 9y ago
If you listen to the BBC World Service, they do a 5 minute news summary every few hours outlining the important news events of the day - free and worth using.
- jacek 9y ago
  Every few hours is a bit to much. That's why I would prefer a weekly digest. I am learning German and I have started listening to daily Deutche Welle podcast [1]. It is really good and my main source of information now (even though I still don't understand much of it ;). [1] http://www.dw.com/de/deutsch-lernen/nachrichten/s-8030 http://www.dw.com/de/deutsch-lernen/nachrichten/s-8030
veritas3241 9y ago
This doesn't meet all of your criteria (in that's it's Daily and US-centered), but I've found it to be valuable for keeping up with US-politics. https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/ https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/
- tfmatt 9y ago
  No way I'm checking this out at work
- LyndsySimon 9y ago
  It seems fairly biased politically.
nikisweeting 9y ago
I think the Foreign Policy morning brief is awesome. It's not US-centric, it's fairly unbiased, and the reporting is high-quality. https://imgur.com/a/ssfBU https://imgur.com/a/ssfBU I also subscribe to https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/ https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/ for US politics news.
- soperj 9y ago
  none of the links on the morning brief site work, and when i actually go to the morning brief site it looks like most of the articles are from 2009. I thought for a second Swine flu had re-emerged.
  - nikisweeting 9y ago
    Yeah sorry the particular page I linked to is from 2008 and is super broken. The actual morning brief these days looks like this: https://imgur.com/a/ssfBU https://imgur.com/a/ssfBU
    - soperj 9y ago
      k. what's the link to that page?
      - nikisweeting 9y ago
        It's an email, to signup go to their homepage.
- jacek 9y ago
  The screen looks great, but I can't find the signup page.
  - nikisweeting 9y ago
    https://foreignpolicy.com/ https://foreignpolicy.com/ then "Register/Sign In" in the upper right. You only need Web Access for the morning brief, not Premium.
thenomad 9y ago
You might like Eurasia Group's "Signal" - https://medium.com/signal-geopolitics-made-simple/saudi-android-dreams-indictment-excitement-and-the-guns-of-catalonia-72eb0b65d91c https://medium.com/signal-geopolitics-made-simple/saudi-andr...
nolite 9y ago
How do you define "important"?
basch 9y ago
not quite every day, but the live feeds are good https://redef.com/channel/media/mix https://redef.com/channel/media/mix
twentythree 9y ago
The Week (http://theweek.com/ http://theweek.com/) does a fantastic job of this. They summarize the main issues of the week from the viewpoint of a variety of politically-diverse sources, and there's a lot of non-US news in there as well. I believe they've covered all the examples you mentioned in recent weeks. Well worth a try if you haven't heard of it yet.
cVwEq 9y ago
NPR and Hacker News. As a huge recovering news junkie, that's what I've slimmed down to and I think it's perfect.
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marketvulture 9y ago
You can come check out https://marketvulture.com https://marketvulture.com -- we do something similar: track the drama around the world that might present interesting market opportunities.
vernon99 9y ago
I would pay a lot more for really important things - science, R&D, tech, not politics and things that get dated tomorrow. If there would be a quality magazine with HN level articles on: cutting edge tech (blockchain, quantum computing, etc), biotech (organs, prostetics, implants), brain science and broader space travel. I’d pay quite a lot for that. Not the basic news, but more like deep dives to make me interested and dig more. From what I know, haven’t found anything close to that. If you run such a media, tell me where to send money. Also open to invest.
- goatherders 9y ago
  Can you share your email or a way for me to get in touch?

by jacek 9y ago

Splendor 9y ago

How do you personally define 'most important'?

glintik 9y ago
I suppose it is a key moment - most important for Mr. westonplatter0. So Service have to be smart enough taking into account user's prefs. AI and Deep Learning are good friends for that Service.

sleavey 9y ago

Shameless plug, but check out WikiTribune [1]. It was started by Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia founder) as an attempt to democratise and wikify news. It just entered public beta, but they solicited recurring donations over summer and are still accepting them - if you believe in the project, consider signing up for a few dollars a month. [1] https://beta.wikitribune.com/ https://beta.wikitribune.com/

jacek 9y ago
Thanks! Looks promising, I will try it out.

lukeqsee 9y ago

I have found the Economist Espresso[1] is an excellent version of this. And it's only $3 / month. [1] http://www.economist.com/digital http://www.economist.com/digital

jacek 9y ago
Thanks for the tip. I would prefer the option to read on a bigger screen though. I hate reading on my phone.
- lukeqsee 9y ago
  They do allow email subscription, if it's preferable to you. http://www.economist.com/newsletters http://www.economist.com/newsletters (No affiliation, just a happy subscriber.)

patja 9y ago

If you can pay a little more, just get a subscription to The Economist

toddsiegel 9y ago

I would pay about $10 for that too.

ameister14 9y ago

If you listen to the BBC World Service, they do a 5 minute news summary every few hours outlining the important news events of the day - free and worth using.

jacek 9y ago
Every few hours is a bit to much. That's why I would prefer a weekly digest. I am learning German and I have started listening to daily Deutche Welle podcast [1]. It is really good and my main source of information now (even though I still don't understand much of it ;). [1] http://www.dw.com/de/deutsch-lernen/nachrichten/s-8030 http://www.dw.com/de/deutsch-lernen/nachrichten/s-8030

veritas3241 9y ago

This doesn't meet all of your criteria (in that's it's Daily and US-centered), but I've found it to be valuable for keeping up with US-politics. https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/ https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/

tfmatt 9y ago
No way I'm checking this out at work
LyndsySimon 9y ago
It seems fairly biased politically.

nikisweeting 9y ago

I think the Foreign Policy morning brief is awesome. It's not US-centric, it's fairly unbiased, and the reporting is high-quality. https://imgur.com/a/ssfBU https://imgur.com/a/ssfBU I also subscribe to https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/ https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/ for US politics news.

soperj 9y ago
none of the links on the morning brief site work, and when i actually go to the morning brief site it looks like most of the articles are from 2009. I thought for a second Swine flu had re-emerged.
- nikisweeting 9y ago
  Yeah sorry the particular page I linked to is from 2008 and is super broken. The actual morning brief these days looks like this: https://imgur.com/a/ssfBU https://imgur.com/a/ssfBU
  - soperj 9y ago
    k. what's the link to that page?
    - nikisweeting 9y ago
      It's an email, to signup go to their homepage.
jacek 9y ago
The screen looks great, but I can't find the signup page.
- nikisweeting 9y ago
  https://foreignpolicy.com/ https://foreignpolicy.com/ then "Register/Sign In" in the upper right. You only need Web Access for the morning brief, not Premium.

thenomad 9y ago

You might like Eurasia Group's "Signal" - https://medium.com/signal-geopolitics-made-simple/saudi-android-dreams-indictment-excitement-and-the-guns-of-catalonia-72eb0b65d91c https://medium.com/signal-geopolitics-made-simple/saudi-andr...

nolite 9y ago

How do you define "important"?

basch 9y ago

not quite every day, but the live feeds are good https://redef.com/channel/media/mix https://redef.com/channel/media/mix

twentythree 9y ago

The Week (http://theweek.com/ http://theweek.com/) does a fantastic job of this. They summarize the main issues of the week from the viewpoint of a variety of politically-diverse sources, and there's a lot of non-US news in there as well. I believe they've covered all the examples you mentioned in recent weeks. Well worth a try if you haven't heard of it yet.

cVwEq 9y ago

NPR and Hacker News. As a huge recovering news junkie, that's what I've slimmed down to and I think it's perfect.

deleted 9y ago

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marketvulture 9y ago

You can come check out https://marketvulture.com https://marketvulture.com -- we do something similar: track the drama around the world that might present interesting market opportunities.

vernon99 9y ago

I would pay a lot more for really important things - science, R&D, tech, not politics and things that get dated tomorrow. If there would be a quality magazine with HN level articles on: cutting edge tech (blockchain, quantum computing, etc), biotech (organs, prostetics, implants), brain science and broader space travel. I’d pay quite a lot for that. Not the basic news, but more like deep dives to make me interested and dig more. From what I know, haven’t found anything close to that. If you run such a media, tell me where to send money. Also open to invest.

goatherders 9y ago
Can you share your email or a way for me to get in touch?