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What are your preferred news sources?

13 points by Overtonwindow 9y ago

Aside from this esteemed website, what are your other sources of news?

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nerdponx 9y ago
Local free newspapers, local broadcast news on TV at the laundromat, newspaper headlines at standa and drug stores, and Reddit. I kinda gave up.
nxsynonym 9y ago
Reuters and BBC for day-to-day. Local city newspaper (online). Google news sorted by topics. Reddit.
fghtr 9y ago
https://www.wikitribune.com https://www.wikitribune.com is my hope for the best news source in the near future. It already shows quite some progress.
kotrunga 9y ago
https://legiblenews.com/ https://legiblenews.com/ A clean, simple, no nonsense news site.
- gekkostate 9y ago
  Woah! I am adding this to my reads in the morning. Thanks for the link!
  - kotrunga 9y ago
    kinda late, but no problem! I forget where I found out about it.
- d0es 9y ago
  WOW!
joelhooks 9y ago
The Economist is excellent.
- raihansaputra 9y ago
  I'm paying for their Espresso app and to me it's worth it. A way to keep tabs without being bombarded with a ton of unrelated news articles.
- vanillaboy 9y ago
  Can't agree. I've been a reader since high school and well into college. Subscribed for a few years after and eventually stopped. It's a lot of "water" with 1-2 worthwhile articles per issue at best. It's also extremely biased in more ways than one, trying to please its target audience as much as they can as opposed to challenging their views (which good journalism is supposed to, else what's the point).
webmaven 9y ago
I Use Google Play Newsstand (both the site and the Android app): https://newsstand.google.com/ https://newsstand.google.com/ BTW, even if you don't like Newsstand for consuming news, keep in mind that following topics and publications in Newsstand (eg. https://newsstand.google.com/my/library https://newsstand.google.com/my/library) also affects the cards shown in the Google App feed (née Google Now), and the Newsstand web UI is much easier to use for managing/following lots of topics. I'm less certain as to how data about in-feed user actions ("Recommend fewer stories like this" and similar affordances) are shared between the two venues. It seems intermittent or episodic, rather than continuous.

13 points by Overtonwindow 9y ago

Aside from this esteemed website, what are your other sources of news?

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nerdponx 9y ago

Local free newspapers, local broadcast news on TV at the laundromat, newspaper headlines at standa and drug stores, and Reddit. I kinda gave up.

nxsynonym 9y ago

Reuters and BBC for day-to-day. Local city newspaper (online). Google news sorted by topics. Reddit.

fghtr 9y ago

https://www.wikitribune.com https://www.wikitribune.com is my hope for the best news source in the near future. It already shows quite some progress.

kotrunga 9y ago

https://legiblenews.com/ https://legiblenews.com/ A clean, simple, no nonsense news site.

gekkostate 9y ago
Woah! I am adding this to my reads in the morning. Thanks for the link!
- kotrunga 9y ago
  kinda late, but no problem! I forget where I found out about it.
d0es 9y ago
WOW!

joelhooks 9y ago

The Economist is excellent.

raihansaputra 9y ago
I'm paying for their Espresso app and to me it's worth it. A way to keep tabs without being bombarded with a ton of unrelated news articles.
vanillaboy 9y ago
Can't agree. I've been a reader since high school and well into college. Subscribed for a few years after and eventually stopped. It's a lot of "water" with 1-2 worthwhile articles per issue at best. It's also extremely biased in more ways than one, trying to please its target audience as much as they can as opposed to challenging their views (which good journalism is supposed to, else what's the point).

webmaven 9y ago

I Use Google Play Newsstand (both the site and the Android app): https://newsstand.google.com/ https://newsstand.google.com/ BTW, even if you don't like Newsstand for consuming news, keep in mind that following topics and publications in Newsstand (eg. https://newsstand.google.com/my/library https://newsstand.google.com/my/library) also affects the cards shown in the Google App feed (née Google Now), and the Newsstand web UI is much easier to use for managing/following lots of topics. I'm less certain as to how data about in-feed user actions ("Recommend fewer stories like this" and similar affordances) are shared between the two venues. It seems intermittent or episodic, rather than continuous.