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Ask HN: What are your news sources other than HN?

240 points by aswathrao 7y ago

I am a regular Hacker News reader. But I like to explore similar options news for Sci-tech and Geo Politics. What other news sources you use ?

AVTizzle 7y ago
Mostly other aggregators https://twitter.com https://twitter.com (follow the right people) https://reddit.com https://reddit.com (follow the right subs) https://techmeme.com https://techmeme.com I'm not in the habit of checking in on individual media outlets, but when I see content from WSJ, Bloomberg, or The Information on any of the above aggregators, I generally like what I see.
- AVTizzle 7y ago
  Some follow-on mentions: https://www.stratechery.com https://www.stratechery.com https://www.vox.com https://www.vox.com https://www.vox.com/recode-decode-podcast-kara-swisher https://www.vox.com/recode-decode-podcast-kara-swisher
mtmail 7y ago
99 comments in "Ask HN: What are your other favorite communities other than Hacker News?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20023209 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20023209
- mdip 7y ago
  Thanks for this - that's exactly what I was hoping to find when I clicked into this. While I didn't find a whole lot of the content I had intended, I think what I did find was interesting, none-the-less. The general opinion here seems to be "news sources suck[0]", especially if it has anything to do with politics/politics-masquerading-as-economics[1]. And community-driven sites tend to become dominated by the fringe of one political persuasion or another. HN does a good job, here, though a look at "new" yields a few headlines who's content can be summarized as "Your politician iz teh satan11", they rarely bubble up, and the ones that do -- even the ones that (headline-wise) I'd probably never click through in another context, I end up appreciating more often than not. [0] I tend to agree with this and blame much but not all on the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/65213-briefly-stated-the-gell-mann-amnesia-effect-is-as-follows-you https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/65213-briefly-stated-the-ge... [1] Replace "economics" with anything else. HN's policy against political-related posts aside, I think this community tends toward skepticism and a lot of political is facts/truth twisted to fit an agenda/bias (intentional or not).
nerdbeere 7y ago
I subscribed to a couple of newsletters to stay up to date. The TLDR I read on a daily basis. JavaScript Weekly is also very good if you're interested int webdev. Here's a good list of different newsletters: https://github.com/zudochkin/awesome-newsletters#technology-in-general https://github.com/zudochkin/awesome-newsletters#technology-...
lifeisstillgood 7y ago
Is it sad to admit to BBC satirical news programmes. This generally works - they cover the "biggest" stories of the week, and if it strikes a chord I can go google for more. However it failed spectacularly a few years back - A political enemy of the UK prime Minister David Cameron had written a book claiming Cameron had put his (Cameron's) penis into the mouth of a dead pig for a university prank. This had been banned from being repeated in UK media but twitter and non-english sources were full. So satirical programs were simply full of jokes about pigs, oink oink noises and more. They got hilarious reactions from those in the know but I simply had no idea why - it was weeks before the explanation broke somehow
- wastedhours 7y ago
  > Is it sad to admit to BBC satirical news programmes I for years got all of my main news from HIGNFY, Mock the Week and Private Eye. I got most of the nuance, without the outrage. Shame we don't have anything in the UK like The Daily Show, otherwise I probably wouldn't frequent any news sources other than those that skewer it all.
  - tajd 7y ago
    May I add "Dead Ringers" and "The Now Show" to the list of (BBC) satirical news shows. These shows absolutely nail it for me.
    - aembleton 7y ago
      and the News Quiz
PanosJee 7y ago
Matt Levine @ Bloomberg
- rumanator 7y ago
  Nice try, Matt Levine.
- pjc50 7y ago
  "Money Stuff" is hilarious.
G8WyaX 7y ago
https://news.google.com/?edchanged=1&hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US:en https://news.google.com/?edchanged=1&hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US:... https://news.google.com/?edchanged=1&hl=en-GB&gl=GB&ceid=GB:en https://news.google.com/?edchanged=1&hl=en-GB&gl=GB&ceid=GB:... https://www.aldaily.com/ https://www.aldaily.com/
jdc 7y ago
Face-to-face conversations and John Oliver on Last Week Tonight
AnnoyingSwede 7y ago
I still check out slashdot.org / reddit.com / flashback.org (Swedish)
- cerberusss 7y ago
  I'm still on Slashdot as well. The discourse is less civil, but more straight. Still, I prefer the civility of HN :)
BjoernKW 7y ago
The BBC has a wide range of podcasts (available internationally), including ones about geopolitics and science. Due to the nature of the medium and the BBC's generally more serious and composed disposition these podcasts tend to be about actually relevant information rather than the outrage-inducing, largely irrelevant rubbish commonly fed by "Now ... this" media.
- nannal 7y ago
  I'd advise steering clear of anything related to UK politics published by the BBC. There's been a clear pro-right trend for a number of years evident most clearly during the most recent election and Scotland's independence referendum of 2014.
  - andrepd 7y ago
    Not to mention the appalling coverage of Jeremy Corbyn.
    - mattlondon 7y ago
      What was appalling about its coverage? Any sources or evidence? From what I understand they go to great lengths to remain as impartial as possible so curious what it is in particular you are referring to?
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      - jankiehodgpodge 7y ago
        Perhaps it was more the lack of scrutiny offered to his opponents.
      - dastx 7y ago
        BBC's coverage (and that of other media) of Corbyn has been overwhelmingly negative ever since he announced he is running for Labour leadership. Having said that, I think what's more interesting is the BBC's accidental editing of his main opponent in the recent election. That is, the first time they "accidentally" aired 2016 footage, and the second time they "accidentally" edited out the audience laughing at Boris Johnson after he was asked a question. On both occasions the BBC apologised but I'm not sure it mattered. Obviously this does highlight that since the BBC is willing to do this, how many other times have they done this that hasn't been noticed?
balladeer 7y ago
- I skim/read a national newspaper every day in the morning for around 10-30m - https://www.TheHindu.com https://www.TheHindu.com (no this one's not religious at all - quite the opposite :D). - BBC news (I try to listen to the daily podcast in the evening). I've a radio too. - Sham Jaff's https://www.whathappenedlastweek.com/ https://www.whathappenedlastweek.com/ every week. And then there are friends who never let you miss any event of importance or otherwise. PS. HN, for me, is other things but not at all a news source.
sudoaza 7y ago
Spanish: Mexico https://www.jornada.com.mx/ https://www.jornada.com.mx/ Argentina https://www.pagina12.com.ar/ https://www.pagina12.com.ar/ Cuba http://www.cubadebate.cu/ http://www.cubadebate.cu/ España https://www.elsaltodiario.com/ https://www.elsaltodiario.com/ Colombia https://www.desdeabajo.info/ https://www.desdeabajo.info/ English: https://theintercept.com/ https://theintercept.com/ https://www.democracynow.org/ https://www.democracynow.org/ https://phys.org/ https://phys.org/
- objektif 7y ago
  The intercept is by far the best news outlet. Most of their staff is incredible except a few pseudo journalists like Mehdi who are riding the anti-Trump train.
- ericol 7y ago
  Even thought I'm kinda "ideologically aligned" with Página 12, I wouldn't consider it unbiased when it comes to country politics (quite the contrary, up to the point of not reporting news in some cases) from Argentina (As it is clearly aligned with the "peronist" movement). There are 2 newspaper that from my point of view do a better job of presenting news in a un-biased way. One is www.ambito.com (That it originates in a financial newspaper, but their politics reporting is very good). the other is www.tiempoar.com.ar
- tvaughan 7y ago
  Cualquier recomendación para Chile?
dejawu 7y ago
After finally cutting myself off of Twitter, my main source for news has been the Wikipedia current events portal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events It's as close as can possibly be to unbiased, only lists significant events, and it covers world news rather than only focusing on America. My secondary sources are reddit's /r/OutOfTheLoop, and the chyrons I see whenever I happen to walk by a TV that is playing the news (I learned of the Trump impeachment this way). If something doesn't come up in one of these three sources, it's probably not important enough to be worth the stress/anxiety that following the issue would cause.
- clircle 7y ago
  Does anyone know if there is an RSS feed of the Current Events portal?
  - cyborgx7 7y ago
    There is a recent changes atom feed. Does that do the job? https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?hidebots=1&hidecategorization=1&hideWikibase=1&urlversion=1&days=7&limit=50&action=feedrecentchanges&feedformat=atom https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?hidebots=1&hidecategoriza...
  - vinc 7y ago
    I use this in my RSS reader, from an open source web app I made a few years back: https://news.vinc.cc/search.atom?q=wikipedia+events https://news.vinc.cc/search.atom?q=wikipedia+events
- Markoff 7y ago
  why leaving Twitter? i just joined months ago after ignoring it for years, but yeah most of the content is just time waster besides local police, firemen and transport authority
icelend 7y ago
For me, HN is not a news source. HN is a forum.
- rumanator 7y ago
  It can be both if there are discussions on newspieces that you happened not to catch elsewhere.
molteanu 7y ago
https://www.rt.com/ https://www.rt.com/
- akuji1993 7y ago
  Love how people downvote RT but upvote BBC. Take any media outlet with a big grain of salt. Al Jazeera is also a good news source, when you are intelligent enough to question motives.
  - jknoepfler 7y ago
    One of those is not actively supressed by a dictatorship.
  - sweeneyrod 7y ago
    Russia, the UK and Qatar are all quite different.
  - molteanu 7y ago
    People are not quite objective around HN when it comes to political stuff. That's fine, the technical stuff is still good. > Take any media outlet with a big grain of salt True. That's why you can't trust a person who gets his/her info only from BBC and NYT anymore than you can trust an engineer who doesn't know Lisp. I'm also reading The Guardian, it has some nice opinion pieces, but when Australia is on fire the news is how some tourists saved some koalas and it's all well. When the Amazon burns, that's another story.
  - ljw1001 7y ago
    Sorry, but you're comparing rotten apples and oranges. When RT criticizes Putin the way the Times criticizes Trump or BBC criticizes Johnson, lmk. Actually, I already know when that will happen - after Putin is out of office and the new boss wants to discredit him. Al Jazeera is a high-quality news source.
- IngvarLynn 7y ago
  Is this a troll post? RT was deliberately created from scratch to spread kremlin's agenda by blatant, soviet-level lies.
michajg 7y ago
http://axios.com http://axios.com Summarises news (mostly from a US perspective) concisely with options to dive deeper
sunkenvicar 7y ago
American: https://foxnews.com https://foxnews.com Russian: https://rt.com https://rt.com Canadian: https://thepostmillennial.com https://thepostmillennial.com
- jknoepfler 7y ago
  How on earth can anyone present fox news as a serious news site? It's the living incarnation of for-profit shock journalism. It doesn't even pretend to have actual content. (I'd be just as irritated if someone said comedy central... Which is probably slightly more accurate, but still utterly idiotic)
  - sunkenvicar 7y ago
    Fox News is by far the most popular cable TV news network. Many people also read their website. Would you like to share your news sources?
    - jknoepfler 7y ago
      "By far" - false "Popular" - lol, chinese state media is an order of magnitude more popular, do you think it's an order of magnitude more trustworthy? I personally read the economist, ny times, and wsj for short-cycle online content. I listen to npr in the car, and then... I don't know, read constantly? Everything? Tech blogs? trade journals? History books? Literature? Religious shit? I struggle to keep up with the world in a meaningful way. Don't you? Fox anything drowns itself in the vulgar idiocy of certitude. I can imagine no lesser epistemological sin in 2020. Read and listen to get data, not to absorb obvious horseshit
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      - qazplm10 7y ago
        Amen! Yes, just more one-sided views from the right/left paradigm. Clearly, not a news source intellectuals such as you and I would follow. Foxnews isn't even funded by the government like NYT and NPR, so how exactly can they claim to be trustworthly or unbiased? I'm living with my parents currently. Their Alexa recommended the following news site, which is quite informative. I'm on the go a lot, looking for a job. Fortunately, my hybrid has a Bluetooth connection to my iPhone which enables me to listen while driving. I'm able to catch the latest headlines each day. It's one of the best-unbiased sources out there. I encourage you to check it out. Best wishes! https://www.libtards.news/ https://www.libtards.news/
abhs 7y ago
Slashdot, The Verge, Vox, Tech Crunch, Ars Technica, TechJuice.pk (Pakistan).
dakoondog 7y ago
Techurls.com Devurls.com Feedly
kristopolous 7y ago
I try to avoid it. It's too much of a time sink and there's almost zero pieces of actionable information. I know it's offensive to claim it's merely entertainment but in concrete terms there's no material difference resulting from tuning into daily banter that's any different than watching some serial drama on television.
- mark_l_watson 7y ago
  I agree with you. I get an email USA news summary from The Guardian in the morning and a few minutes looking at that is suffices. I like democracynow.org also but only give that a good read a few times a month. When a US politician does something I find offensive, I do take a few minutes to check to see if they are running for re-election in which case I try to donate $5 to their opponent. Otherwise, I am happy being “apathetic” to politics. EDIT: I volunteer one day a week at my local food bank, and that helps tie me into local events and what is happening in town. Local news is the most important news to me since I have virtually no effect on the world outside of my local community.
- fyfy18 7y ago
  This is my point of view as well. Even (especially?) for things like politics. I might read a quick summary about whatever the current big issues are every few weeks and around elections, but that's it. Issues that may affect me (which are more local in nature) will naturally come up in conversation, so I don't think I'm really missing out on anything. I'm not in a position where I can change anything, so why bother wasting my attention on these things?
- frankzander 7y ago
  I like that view. Most informations are forgotten in a hour or so.
- baggy_trough 7y ago
  Assuming you have at least minimal social interaction, if anything actually important happens, somebody will tell you. So there's really no reason to pay attention to news at all. It's pure entertainment and time wasting.
isthis1984 7y ago
For science sciencedaily.com lobster.rs a little less technical science news - newatlas.com I get access to pressreader.com via my local library a/c
ibrahimcesar 7y ago
In Brazil: https://nexojornal.com.br https://nexojornal.com.br
akuji1993 7y ago
I pretty far left, even for European standards, so this is my news: - https://morningstaronline.co.uk/ https://morningstaronline.co.uk/ (UK Left news) - https://www.theguardian.com/international https://www.theguardian.com/international (Int. News) - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world (Int. News) - https://taz.de/ https://taz.de/ (German left newspaper) - https://www.sueddeutsche.de/ https://www.sueddeutsche.de/ (German centrist) - https://www.theregister.co.uk/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/ (For IT news) - https://techcrunch.com/ https://techcrunch.com/ (For Startup News) - https://www.nytimes.com/section/smarter-living https://www.nytimes.com/section/smarter-living (For Lifestyle articles)
- pjc50 7y ago
  I would strongly suggest that anyone in the UK finds a non-UK news source, and SDZ is a good choice. Irish Times also works - not remotely left, but outside the UK bubble.
  - weavie 7y ago
    Do you mean https://sdz.today/ https://sdz.today/ ? It seems to be down at the moment.
    - pjc50 7y ago
      No, I forgot that the abbreviation doesn't have a D in it. https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sueddeutsche.de%2Fthema%2FBrexit https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&tl=en&u=h...
blowski 7y ago
https://www.allsides.com/unbiased-balanced-news https://www.allsides.com/unbiased-balanced-news is a news aggregator with a focus on balanced news.
timvisee 7y ago
One similar site I use is https://lobste.rs/ https://lobste.rs/
adventured 7y ago
Reuters (https://www.reuters.com/ https://www.reuters.com/) is currently my favorite news source. No paywall. Relatively fast loading, not too annoying site. They're heavy on news, light on opinion, agenda and propaganda. They generally cover anything of consequence globally.
- lukeqsee 7y ago
  They are also my go-to for intra-day news. I use Economist for longer-cycle opinion and news.
0XAFFE 7y ago
Although it is in german, the „deutschlandfunk“[1] is very informative radio with no advertisement. I mostly listen to it on breakfast, but you can most all articles on the radio on their website. [1] https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/ https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/
petepete 7y ago
I have a heavily cultivated set of custom subreddits (local, photography), but I tend to gravitate to hn for tech more and more these days.
oceanbreeze83 7y ago
i started vising maagnit.com last week. good mix of mainstream and independent sources, all video though.
zikani_03 7y ago
I've found a feed reader to be particularly useful for getting news in one place. Have been using The Old Reader for over a year now (RIP Google Reader :_( ). I glance at the headlines to make sure I am aware of current affairs but only go further to reading articles if I need more information or the headline/summary is interesting enough. I don't appreciate news sites that don't have Atom/RSS feeds. Some sites: http://www.sci-news.com/feed http://www.sci-news.com/feed http://itweb.co.za/rss http://itweb.co.za/rss https://sdtimes.com/feed/ https://sdtimes.com/feed/ https://cms.qz.com/feed/edition/africa https://cms.qz.com/feed/edition/africa
leftnode 7y ago
Perhaps they're not typical sources of news, but I enjoy ProPublica[1] and The Intercept[2] for deep investigative journalism. [1] https://www.propublica.org https://www.propublica.org [2] https://theintercept.com https://theintercept.com
vwpolo3 7y ago
The problem is that online news sources are (almost) all the same - low budget, second tier silos of mostly trainee journalists. They have an emphasis on clicks and outrage and constant updates to keep you engaged and are a secondary (or tertiary) driver of revenue. The only exception I know of are The New York Times and maybe The Intercept. My tip is to read a (or more) actual (read: printed) newspapers: - they are printed daily or weekly (e.g. The Economist), keeping you out of the "Breaking News" loop every 60 minutes; - they have more weight within the news organization because they are the primary driver of revenue; - are therefore written by actual professional journalists in a proper journalistic process. I recommend just picking up any news paper and comparing that to the online presence of that news paper, you will notice the tremendous difference. In my opinion, a lot of the "media mistrust" comes from the constant barrage of so-called "news" articles with the primary goal of being shared on social media and bubbling up in Google News. Just check how many news articles are 1:1 copies of AP or any other news conglomerate.
- yorwba 7y ago
  https://newshound.co/editions/en-us/ https://newshound.co/editions/en-us/ is pretty good for seeing how many news articles published by different outlets are actually written by AP/Reuters/etc. and only modified slightly. I think the site was originally intended to allow users to choose the article from their preferred outlet, but I rarely find myself interested in reading any of the grouped articles.
  - basch 7y ago
    I like the same thing about https://techmeme.com/ https://techmeme.com/ if I click the arrow next to a story, it shows me everyone covering it, but they use editorial discretion to chose the "best" coverage, whether that be the first copy, or the first good copy.
  - hieloz 7y ago
    Similar website like https://www.zaqs.org/home.html https://www.zaqs.org/home.html, You can customize the news sources and track original content news websites.
ljw1001 7y ago
Trying to understand politics by watching the Web stream go flowing by is pointless. You need high-quality, big picture stuff that requires effort to produce and consume. In the US, the NYTimes and the Washington Post are the best sources. To ensure you're exposure is 'fair and balanced' I would add the Economist for a more conservative, but not xenophobic or straight-up nonsensical viewpoint. It has the nice additional bonus of being more global. Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy are excellent journals for, well, US foreign policy. Finally, the New Yorker has fantastic longer-form articles on American politics.
- highhedgehog 7y ago
  What about Wall Street Journal?
  - chrisweekly 7y ago
    conservative bias
    - leereeves 7y ago
      And NYT and WaPo each have a bias as well, often very similar. And why not at least listen to people with more than one point of view?
    - lukeqsee 7y ago
      > bias …is not by definition bad. Every publication publishes with bias (recognized and announced or not). Prejudice and unannounced (or not well-known) is what you want to avoid. Reading a "conservative bias" is a good thing, if only to better understand that point of view, regardless of if you agree or not.
      - chrisweekly 7y ago
        Agreed! I respect Andrew Sullivan, who said something like "transparency is the new objectivity."
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maltelandwehr 7y ago
- Twitter - Reddit
- ljw1001 7y ago
  Getting your politics from twitter is a horrible idea. Even if it wasn't full of trolls and bots specifically intended to mislead, it would still be an endless spew of pointless, often fake, outrage where the only thing that matters is keeping Jack Dorsey rich and keeping twitter-itself afloat.
Torches66 7y ago
https://voat.co/ https://voat.co/ as uncensored aggregator for global sociopolitical news. Newspapers.
- deleted 7y ago
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wishrider 7y ago
https://www.uptopnews.com/ https://www.uptopnews.com/ to get a quick tech overview.
embit 7y ago
Originally meant for my own consumption, I made an aggregator that I would like to get my news from, in a form and shape I prefer. then my friends started using it and they really liked it. Now available to everyone. [1] https://embit.ca https://embit.ca
fsloth 7y ago
Economist is very good. They are strongly liberal economics biased in their opinions, but they don't hide it. Their coverage of facts is usually excellent. It's obvious when they are opinionated and when on the other hand quoting expert opinion. I'm a bit on the left, politically, so I like reading 'what the other side is thinking' as well. As a bonus they publish bunch of letters from the readers, where they are criticized for this or that error by their readers, including state officials and university professors.
- lukeqsee 7y ago
  > but they don't hide it. This is what I very much appreciate about the Economist and why I subscribe. Solid handling of the facts and well-announced bias, when present. They say "based on these facts, this is our editorial opinion" (almost literally), and I find it refreshing.
MperorM 7y ago
I watch CGTN, while it's definitely pro china, I still find it to be by far the most valuable news television. It focuses on Africa and Asia, which I otherwise hear very little about. The value of the news for me is mostly not whatever the news is, but the facts surrounding the news. For example when they covered the election in Senegal, I learned a ton about Senegal as a result. The news about the election was not the important part in this case, it was learning about the country. I wrote longer about CGTN here: http://mathiasbonde.com/?p=96 http://mathiasbonde.com/?p=96
- molteanu 7y ago
  > I’m really ignorant regarding most issues outside of the west. I agree. We kinda are. That's why is nice to read all these alternative sources. You don't have to agree with them, but at least you'll ask yourself more questions. Thanks for the link and the advice. I'll definitely watch some CGTN.
ajpkco 7y ago
I really enjoy "Le Monde Diplomatique", it's a french monthly newspaper, mostly about foreign politics. It's translated in more than 25 languages and it started as a newspaper made for diplomatic circles. https://mondediplo.com/ https://mondediplo.com/
hestefisk 7y ago
The Guardian (English), The Conversation, Information (Danish).
wdb 7y ago
Personally, I enjoy reading The Week over the weekend to get the news of the week: https://www.theweek.co.uk https://www.theweek.co.uk Together with that I like to read the free news site from my home country to keep up-to-date what's happening over there.
Markoff 7y ago
BBC and guardian for international news, then tons of local sites and Twitter for local news, Ars Technica and verge for general tech news and Gsmarena, phonearena and gizchina for Android/mobile news i narrowed my interests since I lack time, previously used to read about architecture/buildings and science sites, but it's just too much information and if there is something really important it will go to regular news sites, otherwise it's just stuff with application in years/decades, which I don't care
allard 7y ago
an interesting chart on media bias now at version 5.1 https://www.adfontesmedia.com https://www.adfontesmedia.com
pio42 7y ago
I really like the french newspaper "Le Monde Diplomatique". https://mondediplo.com/ https://mondediplo.com/ It has an english version. I'm actually reading it in french. It's a well documented monthly newspaper. Articles aren't here to create some bullshit buzz, but deep articles on many subjects mostly politic, economic, geo politics but ther topics are covered (internet, healthcare, ...)
- ljw1001 7y ago
  Yeah I used to struggle through Le Monde in French. It was eye-opening to get a very different perspective on everything: art and culture as well as politics.
- Sytten 7y ago
  I am also a reader of the monde diplo. They have a Spanish version too. We must recognize the small left-wing bias though, but the articles are always of very high quality and all the sources are included. This is by far the beat source of information for international politic and it should be a model for other newspapers.
  - pio42 7y ago
    "We must recognize the small left-wing bias though" Yep, I'm fully agree with you, that's must be said.
pknerd 7y ago
I don't scan HN as religiously as I used to do it in the past. I prefer to check Ask HN most of the time as there are more useful threads in it than the main page. To the original question, I explore Reddit subs of my choice.
simonsarris 7y ago
Quit news. Quit politics. Don't have a "media diet." Make stuff and try to be around people who make stuff instead. To lay a single cobblestone path is to have more virtue than a million hot takes. Most causes are not thought-out enough to advocate, certainly not to scream about. The cobblestone path may outlive you. Politics and news, for all of their rage and sense of urgency, turn with the leaves. If you want to do good in this world, work on technology, or art, or building something beautiful or durable, like a family. Good comes through these things, not from the political churn, not from quests for power. If you want to keep up with things, keep up with technology (hi HN), keep up with real people who are doing stuff. It doesn't have to be hyper impressive stuff, just living and making things. Twitter is the most intellectual, and underrated, social network, because people follow too many political accounts and celebrities instead of other people, so if you're looking for an action item that's a good start. Follow real people. Do real things. Try to inspire and be inspired. Leave the news behind.
- LinuxBender 7y ago
  This is the best comment I have seen on HN in a long time. I agree with everything you said, but that isn't the reason this is the best comment. I appreciate that someone else knows what things last and what is just short lived dopamine highs. (news drama, politic drama, etc)
  - jjaredsimpson 7y ago
    How could it be the best comment when it doesn't even address OPs question? OP asked for "X" This reply says, "dont X, X is bad" It is the same as every off topic top comment.
    - bag531 7y ago
      Reminds me of Stack Overflow.
    - LinuxBender 7y ago
      You are right that it does not answer OP's question. I stand by my words, it is still the best comment I have seen. Sometimes it is right to "dont X, X is bad", as it is an opinion which people may freely communicate. I will happily accept my text turning grey for expressing my opinions.
redsparrow 7y ago
I like the Hackaday blog: https://hackaday.com/blog/ https://hackaday.com/blog/
basch 7y ago
To directly answer your question: https://scitechdaily.com/ https://scitechdaily.com/ http://memeorandum.com/ http://memeorandum.com/ (and culture from https://redef.com/ https://redef.com/ https://aldaily.com https://aldaily.com) Like the "avoid it" answer, I also like to read criticism instead of news, whether it be book reviews, movie reviews, album reviews, video game reviews. Partially to increase my literary skills, and partially to help me notice more around me as I consume entertainment. A&LDaily New Book reviews in particular. I read a lot more book, film, and game reviews than I read, watch, or play. Longform and Longreads are great ways to find more magazine like researched stories, instead of daily infotainment style "news." Full List https://techmeme.com/river https://techmeme.com/river https://hckrnews.com https://hckrnews.com https://redef.com/ https://redef.com/ https://aldaily.com https://aldaily.com https://scitechdaily.com https://scitechdaily.com https://longform.org https://longform.org https://longreads.com https://longreads.com https://mediagazer.com/river https://mediagazer.com/river https://memeorandum.com/river https://memeorandum.com/river The aldaily media list (https://www.aldaily.com/media/ https://www.aldaily.com/media/) and redef sources chart (https://redef.com/charts/sources/total https://redef.com/charts/sources/total) are also good pages. For film specifically https://letterboxd.com/ https://letterboxd.com/ https://www.rottentomatoes.com/ https://www.rottentomatoes.com/ https://www.metacritic.com/ https://www.metacritic.com/
mch82 7y ago
Audible.com to learn about topics through books while in the car or on a walk. I buy paper copies of the books I want to share or reference. I try to alternate nonfiction and fiction (usually science fiction and historical fiction).
unictek 7y ago
For French readers: I have created a HN like for French news with the same interface than hacker news and a similar time/point based algorithm for auto sorting most popular articles. Link: http://news.keymetrics.com/ http://news.keymetrics.com/
omarhaneef 7y ago
There was this study a while ago about how readers stuck to the bubbles they knew. So conservative readers read Drudge Report, and Liberals read Huffington Post. However, there was one news source that their network analysis had found to be read widely by both conservatives and liberals: the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. I don't know if this is still true, but its worth a browse. Other than that, I agree with the sentiment here that NYT and WaPo at least go through the effort of fact checking.
- ljw1001 7y ago
  i guess I'm a moderate then, because I wouldn't waste my time with either Drudge or Huff-post. The latter i've found amusing at times in a Yeah-I-Hate-That-Too kinda way, but you just can't take it seriously.
- mikece 7y ago
  Worse than that: Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube think they are doing us a service by inferring our bubble based on what we consume and then give us an ever-smaller bubble thinking it's what we want. What I want is full-spectrum coverage of topics: I want to know what the American left, right, and conspiracy fringe think of something, what the Euroskeptics and EU-supporters think, what the prevailing opinion is in Moscow and Tokyo -- and then draw my own conclusions if it's important to me.
HNLurker2 7y ago
Everyone on hacker news is a hedonist who retired from politics or any political discourse.
alkank 7y ago
I read The Economist. Reasons and benefits I have seen so far are: 1. It's weekly. "World this week" section is more than enough to have a summary of what has happened throughout the globe and I can get this information in less than 5 minutes. If you are interested in being more up-to-date, you can also try Economist Espresso, which is daily. 2. It's not only about world news, but also has different sections such as Technology, International, Book & Arts which gives me a wider range of topics to digest on a weekly basis. 3. This is, in my opinion, the most important bit: Because I'm digesting a wider array of topics but only spending an hour or two every week, I have observed a surprising benefit on human relationships as well: Kick-starting a conversation with a person I don't know. As a not-so-social person I have always struggled finding a topic to chat about with a person I have met recently. Now, first thing I do is to ask this person where he/she is from, or what their hobbies are, and all of a sudden I make a connection with an article I have recently read on the magazine and try to learn more from that person. This is a wonderful way of building a relationship as well as learning quite interesting facts about the culture or the hobbies of that person.
- ljw1001 7y ago
  IDK Reasons, but the Economist is a great news source.
- baron816 7y ago
  Have long read The Economist and it has definitely influenced my world view probably more than anything. +1 to everything you said—it’s a huge help in conversations. Recently, their app has included audio recordings of all their articles the day a new issue is released. That’s made it much easier for me to digest nearly the whole thing each week.
- sfifs 7y ago
  While the Economist is often recommended, somehow I increasingly find articles posted from the Economist to be very shallow takes - as if a high school literature student was asked to turn in an essay on a given topic. I have rarely felt satisfied after reading any Economist article in last couple of years through I don't know if this represents a growing understanding of the world on my part as I grow older or standards in the Economist declining. I don't necessarily feel the same issue though for NYT or WaPo articles.
foob4r 7y ago
I used to spend majority of my time on Twitter, and reading NYT. But it's too much to pay attention to; I couldn't care about anything happening in the world. Now most of my time is spent reading local newspapers, newsletters from local publications, and issue-specific publications (climate change). I'm choosing to care about fewer things and deferring to rest of the world to care about others.
mikece 7y ago
About a hundred websites for various technology news (some of the stories I share here) grouped by interest and signal-to-noise ratio (subjectively determined by me) plus a few related to politics and my hobbies (photography and hiking/camping) all consumed in QuiteRSS on both Windows and macOS. (Am I supposed to post the OPML file for the tech news?)
bag531 7y ago
My list for mostly political and non-corporate media. https://theintercept.com/ https://theintercept.com/ https://jacobinmag.com/ https://jacobinmag.com/ https://www.currentaffairs.org/ https://www.currentaffairs.org/
- bscphil 7y ago
  Genuine question from someone who probably (given your choices) agrees with you politically most of the time: do any of these strike you as acceptable news (i.e. non-editorial) sources? If so, why?
  - bag531 7y ago
    The Intercept - absolutely. Current Affairs is certainly more editorial. Jacobin is somewhere in between.
adamlangsner 7y ago
Washington Post, Engadget, Mac Rumors
mikece 7y ago
A potentially interesting project: a Show HN OPML file generated from the sources posted on HN and weighted based on frequency of posting and up-votes for articles from those sources.
Ozzie_osman 7y ago
DiscoverDev for great technical blog posts. The Intercept to get an alternative media. Fox News to understand people I disagree with. The Economist.
mbreese 7y ago
Axios has a number of email newsletters that are very good. They come out daily or weekly on specific topics. I like the email format where I can expect a good overview of what is happening in a topic (news/politics in the AM, tech news, science weekly, etc). For me, these have been good overviews from a variety of primary news sources. I also really like the email format. I can choose to consume the information on my schedule and don’t have to worry about constantly checking website for more information. Plus, by the time the news hits Axios, the story is already relatively mature. They also release breaking news bits when major events happen (like SCOTUS rulings), with context. Bonus feature - they show you an estimate of reading time for each message too. That can be helpful when planning your time.
plafer 7y ago
HN and Benedict Evans’s newsletter for me
kp98 7y ago
No one has said it yet to my surprise. Arguably the most trusted news outlet in America today is the financial times. Wall Street Journal at one time was a competitor, but it feels like less so today. I would support the argument made previously in this thread, that the news orgs in print and paywalled online produce better content because they don't have to run the rats race of outrage and ads - FT is one of those.
gdubs 7y ago
I subscribed to the print edition of the Wall Street Journal largely to get off the screen and consume less fragmented hot-takes. The news and business reporting is amazing. The editorial board is very “Fox News”, but as someone who’s fairly liberal I get to see outside the bubble. Edit: Oh, and Dan Neil’s car reviews every Saturday are one of the most relaxing reads of my week.
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jackklika 7y ago
reuters.com - The UI (especially mobile) is pretty terrible so it's hard to get hooked - It generally only reports global news that means something rather than talking heads or identity politics - They have published some articles critical of themselves or affiliates, which in my opinion demonstrates objectivity Also when I'm commuting to work, I'll listen to the local NPR station on the radio which covers some local topics.
- gpsx 7y ago
  I like Reuters because it seems to be one of the more neutral news sources in the US.
protomyth 7y ago
For the USA, the Federal Register is the "daily journal of the United States Government". No spin, just the actual rules. https://www.federalregister.gov/ https://www.federalregister.gov/
humaniania 7y ago
A new account looking for other places with geo political discussion? I am becoming more cautious about how freely I share some knowledge.
m_alexgr 7y ago
Once upon a time I trusted the "news", and to be fair, it seemed more balanced than it is now. Maybe that was just naivete. Today? Hard to find any "news" that isn't slanted. The weather perhaps? "News" has become propaganda.
eldavido 7y ago
Local paper: SF Chronicle print edition. It's very good, great local issues coverage, which I wish people would pay more attention to, in general. Voting in California (especially Oakland, where I live) is never easy (42 questions last time!) and I felt like I knew what half of them were in advance, which is no small thing :) Economist for world news. First-class politics coverage. I always laugh at their briefings. It's like, OK, here we go. "Briefing: Climate change". I wouldn't be surprised if we get "Briefing: World peace". Weighty and substantive. Stratechery for tech news. It's great. I also read AVC (Fred Wilson's blog), Jason Crawford's new "Roots of Progress" from time to time. Less often I check out Remains of the Day or Wait But Why. If I'm really feeling ambitious I read foreign affairs. Straight from the US council on foreign relations (CFR). That's the real deal. I don't pay much attention to US national news. I don't care what nonsense Trump said. I do care intensely about local issues like transit, schools, pensions, and land use (zoning).
RickJWagner 7y ago
RealClearPolitics. Because twice daily it lists several outrageous stories from all sides of the political spectrum. I truly believe every news source today is biased, the only way to get any kind of balanced view is to scan them all and triangulate.
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superbaconman 7y ago
I like Bloomberg radio. Most of their stuff is through a global markets lens, so their stuff is less about how things should be and more about how they actually are.
vijayrc 7y ago
caspian report on youtube
vijayrc 7y ago
Caspian Report on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/CaspianReport https://www.youtube.com/user/CaspianReport Condensed news which are more like essays, 15-20mins for each topic, they set the historical context for the current events in a very objective way.
- PopeDotNinja 7y ago
  I like some of the channel's older content. The newer stuff is a bit opinionated for my taste.
cuechan 7y ago
/g/
arminiusreturns 7y ago
I have been compiling a list for quite some time now that I have been planning on doing some sort of scoring system of. There also many video sources that are great resources as well. That said, I will tell you the main lesson I have learned in my obsession for better understanding of the big picture; don't follow outlets, follow journalists, no matter where they go. So I was reading Greenwald long before The Intercept, and if he published somewhere else or gave an interview or talk I'd watch it. The same for others like Seymour Hersh, Robert Fisk, Nassim Taleb, Chris Hedges, Matt Taibbi, Aaron Mate, Whitney Webb et al. Find the ones that hit hard and keep their integrity. Disregard outlets. Use RSS/atom to avoid the crappy websites that often accompany the content.
cmdr2 7y ago
The Prepared, by Spencer Wright. Weekly email digest of really interesting things from the world of engineering and manufacturing. https://theprepared.org/ https://theprepared.org/
Smithalicious 7y ago
I don't have any. If something is truly important to my specific interests then my friends who share those interests will alert me to it. All news I get is word of mouth.
JohnL4 7y ago
Other than memeorandum (techmeme mentioned several times but not memeorandum??), there's The Weekly Sift (https://weeklysift.com/ https://weeklysift.com/)
whatitdobooboo 7y ago
Financial Times is great! Not worth the price if you dont split it with others, though.
WCityMike 7y ago
I use News Items (for-pay). https://newsitems.substack.com/ https://newsitems.substack.com/
SensateCreature 7y ago
For scientific nutrition, https://www.reddit.com/r/scientificnutrition https://www.reddit.com/r/scientificnutrition
Tylast 7y ago
I wish this question would've been asked 1 week later as I have been trying to find a good weekly summary for years. I got fed up & created my own. I finally published it this weekend, but had to wait 4 days for approval. Anyway, here it is: https://www.wnu.news/ https://www.wnu.news/

240 points by aswathrao 7y ago

I am a regular Hacker News reader. But I like to explore similar options news for Sci-tech and Geo Politics. What other news sources you use ?

AVTizzle 7y ago

Mostly other aggregators https://twitter.com https://twitter.com (follow the right people) https://reddit.com https://reddit.com (follow the right subs) https://techmeme.com https://techmeme.com I'm not in the habit of checking in on individual media outlets, but when I see content from WSJ, Bloomberg, or The Information on any of the above aggregators, I generally like what I see.

AVTizzle 7y ago
Some follow-on mentions: https://www.stratechery.com https://www.stratechery.com https://www.vox.com https://www.vox.com https://www.vox.com/recode-decode-podcast-kara-swisher https://www.vox.com/recode-decode-podcast-kara-swisher

mtmail 7y ago

99 comments in "Ask HN: What are your other favorite communities other than Hacker News?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20023209 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20023209

mdip 7y ago
Thanks for this - that's exactly what I was hoping to find when I clicked into this. While I didn't find a whole lot of the content I had intended, I think what I did find was interesting, none-the-less. The general opinion here seems to be "news sources suck[0]", especially if it has anything to do with politics/politics-masquerading-as-economics[1]. And community-driven sites tend to become dominated by the fringe of one political persuasion or another. HN does a good job, here, though a look at "new" yields a few headlines who's content can be summarized as "Your politician iz teh satan11", they rarely bubble up, and the ones that do -- even the ones that (headline-wise) I'd probably never click through in another context, I end up appreciating more often than not. [0] I tend to agree with this and blame much but not all on the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/65213-briefly-stated-the-gell-mann-amnesia-effect-is-as-follows-you https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/65213-briefly-stated-the-ge... [1] Replace "economics" with anything else. HN's policy against political-related posts aside, I think this community tends toward skepticism and a lot of political is facts/truth twisted to fit an agenda/bias (intentional or not).

nerdbeere 7y ago

I subscribed to a couple of newsletters to stay up to date. The TLDR I read on a daily basis. JavaScript Weekly is also very good if you're interested int webdev. Here's a good list of different newsletters: https://github.com/zudochkin/awesome-newsletters#technology-in-general https://github.com/zudochkin/awesome-newsletters#technology-...

lifeisstillgood 7y ago

Is it sad to admit to BBC satirical news programmes. This generally works - they cover the "biggest" stories of the week, and if it strikes a chord I can go google for more. However it failed spectacularly a few years back - A political enemy of the UK prime Minister David Cameron had written a book claiming Cameron had put his (Cameron's) penis into the mouth of a dead pig for a university prank. This had been banned from being repeated in UK media but twitter and non-english sources were full. So satirical programs were simply full of jokes about pigs, oink oink noises and more. They got hilarious reactions from those in the know but I simply had no idea why - it was weeks before the explanation broke somehow

wastedhours 7y ago
> Is it sad to admit to BBC satirical news programmes I for years got all of my main news from HIGNFY, Mock the Week and Private Eye. I got most of the nuance, without the outrage. Shame we don't have anything in the UK like The Daily Show, otherwise I probably wouldn't frequent any news sources other than those that skewer it all.
- tajd 7y ago
  May I add "Dead Ringers" and "The Now Show" to the list of (BBC) satirical news shows. These shows absolutely nail it for me.
  - aembleton 7y ago
    and the News Quiz

PanosJee 7y ago

Matt Levine @ Bloomberg

rumanator 7y ago
Nice try, Matt Levine.
pjc50 7y ago
"Money Stuff" is hilarious.

G8WyaX 7y ago

https://news.google.com/?edchanged=1&hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US:en https://news.google.com/?edchanged=1&hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US:... https://news.google.com/?edchanged=1&hl=en-GB&gl=GB&ceid=GB:en https://news.google.com/?edchanged=1&hl=en-GB&gl=GB&ceid=GB:... https://www.aldaily.com/ https://www.aldaily.com/

jdc 7y ago

Face-to-face conversations and John Oliver on Last Week Tonight

AnnoyingSwede 7y ago

I still check out slashdot.org / reddit.com / flashback.org (Swedish)

cerberusss 7y ago
I'm still on Slashdot as well. The discourse is less civil, but more straight. Still, I prefer the civility of HN :)

BjoernKW 7y ago

The BBC has a wide range of podcasts (available internationally), including ones about geopolitics and science. Due to the nature of the medium and the BBC's generally more serious and composed disposition these podcasts tend to be about actually relevant information rather than the outrage-inducing, largely irrelevant rubbish commonly fed by "Now ... this" media.

nannal 7y ago
I'd advise steering clear of anything related to UK politics published by the BBC. There's been a clear pro-right trend for a number of years evident most clearly during the most recent election and Scotland's independence referendum of 2014.
- andrepd 7y ago
  Not to mention the appalling coverage of Jeremy Corbyn.
  - mattlondon 7y ago
    What was appalling about its coverage? Any sources or evidence? From what I understand they go to great lengths to remain as impartial as possible so curious what it is in particular you are referring to?
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    - jankiehodgpodge 7y ago
      Perhaps it was more the lack of scrutiny offered to his opponents.
    - dastx 7y ago
      BBC's coverage (and that of other media) of Corbyn has been overwhelmingly negative ever since he announced he is running for Labour leadership. Having said that, I think what's more interesting is the BBC's accidental editing of his main opponent in the recent election. That is, the first time they "accidentally" aired 2016 footage, and the second time they "accidentally" edited out the audience laughing at Boris Johnson after he was asked a question. On both occasions the BBC apologised but I'm not sure it mattered. Obviously this does highlight that since the BBC is willing to do this, how many other times have they done this that hasn't been noticed?

balladeer 7y ago

- I skim/read a national newspaper every day in the morning for around 10-30m - https://www.TheHindu.com https://www.TheHindu.com (no this one's not religious at all - quite the opposite :D). - BBC news (I try to listen to the daily podcast in the evening). I've a radio too. - Sham Jaff's https://www.whathappenedlastweek.com/ https://www.whathappenedlastweek.com/ every week. And then there are friends who never let you miss any event of importance or otherwise. PS. HN, for me, is other things but not at all a news source.

sudoaza 7y ago

Spanish: Mexico https://www.jornada.com.mx/ https://www.jornada.com.mx/ Argentina https://www.pagina12.com.ar/ https://www.pagina12.com.ar/ Cuba http://www.cubadebate.cu/ http://www.cubadebate.cu/ España https://www.elsaltodiario.com/ https://www.elsaltodiario.com/ Colombia https://www.desdeabajo.info/ https://www.desdeabajo.info/ English: https://theintercept.com/ https://theintercept.com/ https://www.democracynow.org/ https://www.democracynow.org/ https://phys.org/ https://phys.org/

objektif 7y ago
The intercept is by far the best news outlet. Most of their staff is incredible except a few pseudo journalists like Mehdi who are riding the anti-Trump train.
ericol 7y ago
Even thought I'm kinda "ideologically aligned" with Página 12, I wouldn't consider it unbiased when it comes to country politics (quite the contrary, up to the point of not reporting news in some cases) from Argentina (As it is clearly aligned with the "peronist" movement). There are 2 newspaper that from my point of view do a better job of presenting news in a un-biased way. One is www.ambito.com (That it originates in a financial newspaper, but their politics reporting is very good). the other is www.tiempoar.com.ar
tvaughan 7y ago
Cualquier recomendación para Chile?

dejawu 7y ago

After finally cutting myself off of Twitter, my main source for news has been the Wikipedia current events portal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events It's as close as can possibly be to unbiased, only lists significant events, and it covers world news rather than only focusing on America. My secondary sources are reddit's /r/OutOfTheLoop, and the chyrons I see whenever I happen to walk by a TV that is playing the news (I learned of the Trump impeachment this way). If something doesn't come up in one of these three sources, it's probably not important enough to be worth the stress/anxiety that following the issue would cause.

clircle 7y ago
Does anyone know if there is an RSS feed of the Current Events portal?
- cyborgx7 7y ago
  There is a recent changes atom feed. Does that do the job? https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?hidebots=1&hidecategorization=1&hideWikibase=1&urlversion=1&days=7&limit=50&action=feedrecentchanges&feedformat=atom https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?hidebots=1&hidecategoriza...
- vinc 7y ago
  I use this in my RSS reader, from an open source web app I made a few years back: https://news.vinc.cc/search.atom?q=wikipedia+events https://news.vinc.cc/search.atom?q=wikipedia+events
Markoff 7y ago
why leaving Twitter? i just joined months ago after ignoring it for years, but yeah most of the content is just time waster besides local police, firemen and transport authority

icelend 7y ago

For me, HN is not a news source. HN is a forum.

rumanator 7y ago
It can be both if there are discussions on newspieces that you happened not to catch elsewhere.

molteanu 7y ago

https://www.rt.com/ https://www.rt.com/

akuji1993 7y ago
Love how people downvote RT but upvote BBC. Take any media outlet with a big grain of salt. Al Jazeera is also a good news source, when you are intelligent enough to question motives.
- jknoepfler 7y ago
  One of those is not actively supressed by a dictatorship.
- sweeneyrod 7y ago
  Russia, the UK and Qatar are all quite different.
- molteanu 7y ago
  People are not quite objective around HN when it comes to political stuff. That's fine, the technical stuff is still good. > Take any media outlet with a big grain of salt True. That's why you can't trust a person who gets his/her info only from BBC and NYT anymore than you can trust an engineer who doesn't know Lisp. I'm also reading The Guardian, it has some nice opinion pieces, but when Australia is on fire the news is how some tourists saved some koalas and it's all well. When the Amazon burns, that's another story.
- ljw1001 7y ago
  Sorry, but you're comparing rotten apples and oranges. When RT criticizes Putin the way the Times criticizes Trump or BBC criticizes Johnson, lmk. Actually, I already know when that will happen - after Putin is out of office and the new boss wants to discredit him. Al Jazeera is a high-quality news source.
IngvarLynn 7y ago
Is this a troll post? RT was deliberately created from scratch to spread kremlin's agenda by blatant, soviet-level lies.

michajg 7y ago

http://axios.com http://axios.com Summarises news (mostly from a US perspective) concisely with options to dive deeper

sunkenvicar 7y ago

American: https://foxnews.com https://foxnews.com Russian: https://rt.com https://rt.com Canadian: https://thepostmillennial.com https://thepostmillennial.com

jknoepfler 7y ago
How on earth can anyone present fox news as a serious news site? It's the living incarnation of for-profit shock journalism. It doesn't even pretend to have actual content. (I'd be just as irritated if someone said comedy central... Which is probably slightly more accurate, but still utterly idiotic)
- sunkenvicar 7y ago
  Fox News is by far the most popular cable TV news network. Many people also read their website. Would you like to share your news sources?
  - jknoepfler 7y ago
    "By far" - false "Popular" - lol, chinese state media is an order of magnitude more popular, do you think it's an order of magnitude more trustworthy? I personally read the economist, ny times, and wsj for short-cycle online content. I listen to npr in the car, and then... I don't know, read constantly? Everything? Tech blogs? trade journals? History books? Literature? Religious shit? I struggle to keep up with the world in a meaningful way. Don't you? Fox anything drowns itself in the vulgar idiocy of certitude. I can imagine no lesser epistemological sin in 2020. Read and listen to get data, not to absorb obvious horseshit
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    - qazplm10 7y ago
      Amen! Yes, just more one-sided views from the right/left paradigm. Clearly, not a news source intellectuals such as you and I would follow. Foxnews isn't even funded by the government like NYT and NPR, so how exactly can they claim to be trustworthly or unbiased? I'm living with my parents currently. Their Alexa recommended the following news site, which is quite informative. I'm on the go a lot, looking for a job. Fortunately, my hybrid has a Bluetooth connection to my iPhone which enables me to listen while driving. I'm able to catch the latest headlines each day. It's one of the best-unbiased sources out there. I encourage you to check it out. Best wishes! https://www.libtards.news/ https://www.libtards.news/

abhs 7y ago

Slashdot, The Verge, Vox, Tech Crunch, Ars Technica, TechJuice.pk (Pakistan).

dakoondog 7y ago

Techurls.com Devurls.com Feedly

kristopolous 7y ago

I try to avoid it. It's too much of a time sink and there's almost zero pieces of actionable information. I know it's offensive to claim it's merely entertainment but in concrete terms there's no material difference resulting from tuning into daily banter that's any different than watching some serial drama on television.

mark_l_watson 7y ago
I agree with you. I get an email USA news summary from The Guardian in the morning and a few minutes looking at that is suffices. I like democracynow.org also but only give that a good read a few times a month. When a US politician does something I find offensive, I do take a few minutes to check to see if they are running for re-election in which case I try to donate $5 to their opponent. Otherwise, I am happy being “apathetic” to politics. EDIT: I volunteer one day a week at my local food bank, and that helps tie me into local events and what is happening in town. Local news is the most important news to me since I have virtually no effect on the world outside of my local community.
fyfy18 7y ago
This is my point of view as well. Even (especially?) for things like politics. I might read a quick summary about whatever the current big issues are every few weeks and around elections, but that's it. Issues that may affect me (which are more local in nature) will naturally come up in conversation, so I don't think I'm really missing out on anything. I'm not in a position where I can change anything, so why bother wasting my attention on these things?
frankzander 7y ago
I like that view. Most informations are forgotten in a hour or so.
baggy_trough 7y ago
Assuming you have at least minimal social interaction, if anything actually important happens, somebody will tell you. So there's really no reason to pay attention to news at all. It's pure entertainment and time wasting.

isthis1984 7y ago

For science sciencedaily.com lobster.rs a little less technical science news - newatlas.com I get access to pressreader.com via my local library a/c

ibrahimcesar 7y ago

In Brazil: https://nexojornal.com.br https://nexojornal.com.br

akuji1993 7y ago

I pretty far left, even for European standards, so this is my news: - https://morningstaronline.co.uk/ https://morningstaronline.co.uk/ (UK Left news) - https://www.theguardian.com/international https://www.theguardian.com/international (Int. News) - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world (Int. News) - https://taz.de/ https://taz.de/ (German left newspaper) - https://www.sueddeutsche.de/ https://www.sueddeutsche.de/ (German centrist) - https://www.theregister.co.uk/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/ (For IT news) - https://techcrunch.com/ https://techcrunch.com/ (For Startup News) - https://www.nytimes.com/section/smarter-living https://www.nytimes.com/section/smarter-living (For Lifestyle articles)

pjc50 7y ago
I would strongly suggest that anyone in the UK finds a non-UK news source, and SDZ is a good choice. Irish Times also works - not remotely left, but outside the UK bubble.
- weavie 7y ago
  Do you mean https://sdz.today/ https://sdz.today/ ? It seems to be down at the moment.
  - pjc50 7y ago
    No, I forgot that the abbreviation doesn't have a D in it. https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sueddeutsche.de%2Fthema%2FBrexit https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&tl=en&u=h...

blowski 7y ago

https://www.allsides.com/unbiased-balanced-news https://www.allsides.com/unbiased-balanced-news is a news aggregator with a focus on balanced news.

timvisee 7y ago

One similar site I use is https://lobste.rs/ https://lobste.rs/

adventured 7y ago

Reuters (https://www.reuters.com/ https://www.reuters.com/) is currently my favorite news source. No paywall. Relatively fast loading, not too annoying site. They're heavy on news, light on opinion, agenda and propaganda. They generally cover anything of consequence globally.

lukeqsee 7y ago
They are also my go-to for intra-day news. I use Economist for longer-cycle opinion and news.

0XAFFE 7y ago

Although it is in german, the „deutschlandfunk“[1] is very informative radio with no advertisement. I mostly listen to it on breakfast, but you can most all articles on the radio on their website. [1] https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/ https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/

petepete 7y ago

I have a heavily cultivated set of custom subreddits (local, photography), but I tend to gravitate to hn for tech more and more these days.

oceanbreeze83 7y ago

i started vising maagnit.com last week. good mix of mainstream and independent sources, all video though.

zikani_03 7y ago

I've found a feed reader to be particularly useful for getting news in one place. Have been using The Old Reader for over a year now (RIP Google Reader :_( ). I glance at the headlines to make sure I am aware of current affairs but only go further to reading articles if I need more information or the headline/summary is interesting enough. I don't appreciate news sites that don't have Atom/RSS feeds. Some sites: http://www.sci-news.com/feed http://www.sci-news.com/feed http://itweb.co.za/rss http://itweb.co.za/rss https://sdtimes.com/feed/ https://sdtimes.com/feed/ https://cms.qz.com/feed/edition/africa https://cms.qz.com/feed/edition/africa

leftnode 7y ago

Perhaps they're not typical sources of news, but I enjoy ProPublica[1] and The Intercept[2] for deep investigative journalism. [1] https://www.propublica.org https://www.propublica.org [2] https://theintercept.com https://theintercept.com

vwpolo3 7y ago

The problem is that online news sources are (almost) all the same - low budget, second tier silos of mostly trainee journalists. They have an emphasis on clicks and outrage and constant updates to keep you engaged and are a secondary (or tertiary) driver of revenue. The only exception I know of are The New York Times and maybe The Intercept. My tip is to read a (or more) actual (read: printed) newspapers: - they are printed daily or weekly (e.g. The Economist), keeping you out of the "Breaking News" loop every 60 minutes; - they have more weight within the news organization because they are the primary driver of revenue; - are therefore written by actual professional journalists in a proper journalistic process. I recommend just picking up any news paper and comparing that to the online presence of that news paper, you will notice the tremendous difference. In my opinion, a lot of the "media mistrust" comes from the constant barrage of so-called "news" articles with the primary goal of being shared on social media and bubbling up in Google News. Just check how many news articles are 1:1 copies of AP or any other news conglomerate.

yorwba 7y ago
https://newshound.co/editions/en-us/ https://newshound.co/editions/en-us/ is pretty good for seeing how many news articles published by different outlets are actually written by AP/Reuters/etc. and only modified slightly. I think the site was originally intended to allow users to choose the article from their preferred outlet, but I rarely find myself interested in reading any of the grouped articles.
- basch 7y ago
  I like the same thing about https://techmeme.com/ https://techmeme.com/ if I click the arrow next to a story, it shows me everyone covering it, but they use editorial discretion to chose the "best" coverage, whether that be the first copy, or the first good copy.
- hieloz 7y ago
  Similar website like https://www.zaqs.org/home.html https://www.zaqs.org/home.html, You can customize the news sources and track original content news websites.

ljw1001 7y ago

Trying to understand politics by watching the Web stream go flowing by is pointless. You need high-quality, big picture stuff that requires effort to produce and consume. In the US, the NYTimes and the Washington Post are the best sources. To ensure you're exposure is 'fair and balanced' I would add the Economist for a more conservative, but not xenophobic or straight-up nonsensical viewpoint. It has the nice additional bonus of being more global. Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy are excellent journals for, well, US foreign policy. Finally, the New Yorker has fantastic longer-form articles on American politics.

highhedgehog 7y ago
What about Wall Street Journal?
- chrisweekly 7y ago
  conservative bias
  - leereeves 7y ago
    And NYT and WaPo each have a bias as well, often very similar. And why not at least listen to people with more than one point of view?
  - lukeqsee 7y ago
    > bias …is not by definition bad. Every publication publishes with bias (recognized and announced or not). Prejudice and unannounced (or not well-known) is what you want to avoid. Reading a "conservative bias" is a good thing, if only to better understand that point of view, regardless of if you agree or not.
    - chrisweekly 7y ago
      Agreed! I respect Andrew Sullivan, who said something like "transparency is the new objectivity."
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maltelandwehr 7y ago

- Twitter - Reddit

ljw1001 7y ago
Getting your politics from twitter is a horrible idea. Even if it wasn't full of trolls and bots specifically intended to mislead, it would still be an endless spew of pointless, often fake, outrage where the only thing that matters is keeping Jack Dorsey rich and keeping twitter-itself afloat.

Torches66 7y ago

https://voat.co/ https://voat.co/ as uncensored aggregator for global sociopolitical news. Newspapers.

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wishrider 7y ago

https://www.uptopnews.com/ https://www.uptopnews.com/ to get a quick tech overview.

embit 7y ago

Originally meant for my own consumption, I made an aggregator that I would like to get my news from, in a form and shape I prefer. then my friends started using it and they really liked it. Now available to everyone. [1] https://embit.ca https://embit.ca

fsloth 7y ago

Economist is very good. They are strongly liberal economics biased in their opinions, but they don't hide it. Their coverage of facts is usually excellent. It's obvious when they are opinionated and when on the other hand quoting expert opinion. I'm a bit on the left, politically, so I like reading 'what the other side is thinking' as well. As a bonus they publish bunch of letters from the readers, where they are criticized for this or that error by their readers, including state officials and university professors.

lukeqsee 7y ago
> but they don't hide it. This is what I very much appreciate about the Economist and why I subscribe. Solid handling of the facts and well-announced bias, when present. They say "based on these facts, this is our editorial opinion" (almost literally), and I find it refreshing.

MperorM 7y ago

I watch CGTN, while it's definitely pro china, I still find it to be by far the most valuable news television. It focuses on Africa and Asia, which I otherwise hear very little about. The value of the news for me is mostly not whatever the news is, but the facts surrounding the news. For example when they covered the election in Senegal, I learned a ton about Senegal as a result. The news about the election was not the important part in this case, it was learning about the country. I wrote longer about CGTN here: http://mathiasbonde.com/?p=96 http://mathiasbonde.com/?p=96

molteanu 7y ago
> I’m really ignorant regarding most issues outside of the west. I agree. We kinda are. That's why is nice to read all these alternative sources. You don't have to agree with them, but at least you'll ask yourself more questions. Thanks for the link and the advice. I'll definitely watch some CGTN.

ajpkco 7y ago

I really enjoy "Le Monde Diplomatique", it's a french monthly newspaper, mostly about foreign politics. It's translated in more than 25 languages and it started as a newspaper made for diplomatic circles. https://mondediplo.com/ https://mondediplo.com/

hestefisk 7y ago

The Guardian (English), The Conversation, Information (Danish).

wdb 7y ago

Personally, I enjoy reading The Week over the weekend to get the news of the week: https://www.theweek.co.uk https://www.theweek.co.uk Together with that I like to read the free news site from my home country to keep up-to-date what's happening over there.

Markoff 7y ago

BBC and guardian for international news, then tons of local sites and Twitter for local news, Ars Technica and verge for general tech news and Gsmarena, phonearena and gizchina for Android/mobile news i narrowed my interests since I lack time, previously used to read about architecture/buildings and science sites, but it's just too much information and if there is something really important it will go to regular news sites, otherwise it's just stuff with application in years/decades, which I don't care

allard 7y ago

an interesting chart on media bias now at version 5.1 https://www.adfontesmedia.com https://www.adfontesmedia.com

pio42 7y ago

I really like the french newspaper "Le Monde Diplomatique". https://mondediplo.com/ https://mondediplo.com/ It has an english version. I'm actually reading it in french. It's a well documented monthly newspaper. Articles aren't here to create some bullshit buzz, but deep articles on many subjects mostly politic, economic, geo politics but ther topics are covered (internet, healthcare, ...)

ljw1001 7y ago
Yeah I used to struggle through Le Monde in French. It was eye-opening to get a very different perspective on everything: art and culture as well as politics.
Sytten 7y ago
I am also a reader of the monde diplo. They have a Spanish version too. We must recognize the small left-wing bias though, but the articles are always of very high quality and all the sources are included. This is by far the beat source of information for international politic and it should be a model for other newspapers.
- pio42 7y ago
  "We must recognize the small left-wing bias though" Yep, I'm fully agree with you, that's must be said.

pknerd 7y ago

I don't scan HN as religiously as I used to do it in the past. I prefer to check Ask HN most of the time as there are more useful threads in it than the main page. To the original question, I explore Reddit subs of my choice.

simonsarris 7y ago

Quit news. Quit politics. Don't have a "media diet." Make stuff and try to be around people who make stuff instead. To lay a single cobblestone path is to have more virtue than a million hot takes. Most causes are not thought-out enough to advocate, certainly not to scream about. The cobblestone path may outlive you. Politics and news, for all of their rage and sense of urgency, turn with the leaves. If you want to do good in this world, work on technology, or art, or building something beautiful or durable, like a family. Good comes through these things, not from the political churn, not from quests for power. If you want to keep up with things, keep up with technology (hi HN), keep up with real people who are doing stuff. It doesn't have to be hyper impressive stuff, just living and making things. Twitter is the most intellectual, and underrated, social network, because people follow too many political accounts and celebrities instead of other people, so if you're looking for an action item that's a good start. Follow real people. Do real things. Try to inspire and be inspired. Leave the news behind.

LinuxBender 7y ago
This is the best comment I have seen on HN in a long time. I agree with everything you said, but that isn't the reason this is the best comment. I appreciate that someone else knows what things last and what is just short lived dopamine highs. (news drama, politic drama, etc)
- jjaredsimpson 7y ago
  How could it be the best comment when it doesn't even address OPs question? OP asked for "X" This reply says, "dont X, X is bad" It is the same as every off topic top comment.
  - bag531 7y ago
    Reminds me of Stack Overflow.
  - LinuxBender 7y ago
    You are right that it does not answer OP's question. I stand by my words, it is still the best comment I have seen. Sometimes it is right to "dont X, X is bad", as it is an opinion which people may freely communicate. I will happily accept my text turning grey for expressing my opinions.

redsparrow 7y ago

I like the Hackaday blog: https://hackaday.com/blog/ https://hackaday.com/blog/

basch 7y ago

To directly answer your question: https://scitechdaily.com/ https://scitechdaily.com/ http://memeorandum.com/ http://memeorandum.com/ (and culture from https://redef.com/ https://redef.com/ https://aldaily.com https://aldaily.com) Like the "avoid it" answer, I also like to read criticism instead of news, whether it be book reviews, movie reviews, album reviews, video game reviews. Partially to increase my literary skills, and partially to help me notice more around me as I consume entertainment. A&LDaily New Book reviews in particular. I read a lot more book, film, and game reviews than I read, watch, or play. Longform and Longreads are great ways to find more magazine like researched stories, instead of daily infotainment style "news." Full List https://techmeme.com/river https://techmeme.com/river https://hckrnews.com https://hckrnews.com https://redef.com/ https://redef.com/ https://aldaily.com https://aldaily.com https://scitechdaily.com https://scitechdaily.com https://longform.org https://longform.org https://longreads.com https://longreads.com https://mediagazer.com/river https://mediagazer.com/river https://memeorandum.com/river https://memeorandum.com/river The aldaily media list (https://www.aldaily.com/media/ https://www.aldaily.com/media/) and redef sources chart (https://redef.com/charts/sources/total https://redef.com/charts/sources/total) are also good pages. For film specifically https://letterboxd.com/ https://letterboxd.com/ https://www.rottentomatoes.com/ https://www.rottentomatoes.com/ https://www.metacritic.com/ https://www.metacritic.com/

mch82 7y ago

Audible.com to learn about topics through books while in the car or on a walk. I buy paper copies of the books I want to share or reference. I try to alternate nonfiction and fiction (usually science fiction and historical fiction).

unictek 7y ago

For French readers: I have created a HN like for French news with the same interface than hacker news and a similar time/point based algorithm for auto sorting most popular articles. Link: http://news.keymetrics.com/ http://news.keymetrics.com/

omarhaneef 7y ago

There was this study a while ago about how readers stuck to the bubbles they knew. So conservative readers read Drudge Report, and Liberals read Huffington Post. However, there was one news source that their network analysis had found to be read widely by both conservatives and liberals: the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. I don't know if this is still true, but its worth a browse. Other than that, I agree with the sentiment here that NYT and WaPo at least go through the effort of fact checking.

ljw1001 7y ago
i guess I'm a moderate then, because I wouldn't waste my time with either Drudge or Huff-post. The latter i've found amusing at times in a Yeah-I-Hate-That-Too kinda way, but you just can't take it seriously.
mikece 7y ago
Worse than that: Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube think they are doing us a service by inferring our bubble based on what we consume and then give us an ever-smaller bubble thinking it's what we want. What I want is full-spectrum coverage of topics: I want to know what the American left, right, and conspiracy fringe think of something, what the Euroskeptics and EU-supporters think, what the prevailing opinion is in Moscow and Tokyo -- and then draw my own conclusions if it's important to me.

HNLurker2 7y ago

Everyone on hacker news is a hedonist who retired from politics or any political discourse.

alkank 7y ago

I read The Economist. Reasons and benefits I have seen so far are: 1. It's weekly. "World this week" section is more than enough to have a summary of what has happened throughout the globe and I can get this information in less than 5 minutes. If you are interested in being more up-to-date, you can also try Economist Espresso, which is daily. 2. It's not only about world news, but also has different sections such as Technology, International, Book & Arts which gives me a wider range of topics to digest on a weekly basis. 3. This is, in my opinion, the most important bit: Because I'm digesting a wider array of topics but only spending an hour or two every week, I have observed a surprising benefit on human relationships as well: Kick-starting a conversation with a person I don't know. As a not-so-social person I have always struggled finding a topic to chat about with a person I have met recently. Now, first thing I do is to ask this person where he/she is from, or what their hobbies are, and all of a sudden I make a connection with an article I have recently read on the magazine and try to learn more from that person. This is a wonderful way of building a relationship as well as learning quite interesting facts about the culture or the hobbies of that person.

ljw1001 7y ago
IDK Reasons, but the Economist is a great news source.
baron816 7y ago
Have long read The Economist and it has definitely influenced my world view probably more than anything. +1 to everything you said—it’s a huge help in conversations. Recently, their app has included audio recordings of all their articles the day a new issue is released. That’s made it much easier for me to digest nearly the whole thing each week.
sfifs 7y ago
While the Economist is often recommended, somehow I increasingly find articles posted from the Economist to be very shallow takes - as if a high school literature student was asked to turn in an essay on a given topic. I have rarely felt satisfied after reading any Economist article in last couple of years through I don't know if this represents a growing understanding of the world on my part as I grow older or standards in the Economist declining. I don't necessarily feel the same issue though for NYT or WaPo articles.

foob4r 7y ago

I used to spend majority of my time on Twitter, and reading NYT. But it's too much to pay attention to; I couldn't care about anything happening in the world. Now most of my time is spent reading local newspapers, newsletters from local publications, and issue-specific publications (climate change). I'm choosing to care about fewer things and deferring to rest of the world to care about others.

mikece 7y ago

About a hundred websites for various technology news (some of the stories I share here) grouped by interest and signal-to-noise ratio (subjectively determined by me) plus a few related to politics and my hobbies (photography and hiking/camping) all consumed in QuiteRSS on both Windows and macOS. (Am I supposed to post the OPML file for the tech news?)

bag531 7y ago

My list for mostly political and non-corporate media. https://theintercept.com/ https://theintercept.com/ https://jacobinmag.com/ https://jacobinmag.com/ https://www.currentaffairs.org/ https://www.currentaffairs.org/

bscphil 7y ago
Genuine question from someone who probably (given your choices) agrees with you politically most of the time: do any of these strike you as acceptable news (i.e. non-editorial) sources? If so, why?
- bag531 7y ago
  The Intercept - absolutely. Current Affairs is certainly more editorial. Jacobin is somewhere in between.

adamlangsner 7y ago

Washington Post, Engadget, Mac Rumors

mikece 7y ago

A potentially interesting project: a Show HN OPML file generated from the sources posted on HN and weighted based on frequency of posting and up-votes for articles from those sources.

Ozzie_osman 7y ago

DiscoverDev for great technical blog posts. The Intercept to get an alternative media. Fox News to understand people I disagree with. The Economist.

mbreese 7y ago

Axios has a number of email newsletters that are very good. They come out daily or weekly on specific topics. I like the email format where I can expect a good overview of what is happening in a topic (news/politics in the AM, tech news, science weekly, etc). For me, these have been good overviews from a variety of primary news sources. I also really like the email format. I can choose to consume the information on my schedule and don’t have to worry about constantly checking website for more information. Plus, by the time the news hits Axios, the story is already relatively mature. They also release breaking news bits when major events happen (like SCOTUS rulings), with context. Bonus feature - they show you an estimate of reading time for each message too. That can be helpful when planning your time.

plafer 7y ago

HN and Benedict Evans’s newsletter for me

kp98 7y ago

No one has said it yet to my surprise. Arguably the most trusted news outlet in America today is the financial times. Wall Street Journal at one time was a competitor, but it feels like less so today. I would support the argument made previously in this thread, that the news orgs in print and paywalled online produce better content because they don't have to run the rats race of outrage and ads - FT is one of those.

gdubs 7y ago

I subscribed to the print edition of the Wall Street Journal largely to get off the screen and consume less fragmented hot-takes. The news and business reporting is amazing. The editorial board is very “Fox News”, but as someone who’s fairly liberal I get to see outside the bubble. Edit: Oh, and Dan Neil’s car reviews every Saturday are one of the most relaxing reads of my week.

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jackklika 7y ago

reuters.com - The UI (especially mobile) is pretty terrible so it's hard to get hooked - It generally only reports global news that means something rather than talking heads or identity politics - They have published some articles critical of themselves or affiliates, which in my opinion demonstrates objectivity Also when I'm commuting to work, I'll listen to the local NPR station on the radio which covers some local topics.

gpsx 7y ago
I like Reuters because it seems to be one of the more neutral news sources in the US.

protomyth 7y ago

For the USA, the Federal Register is the "daily journal of the United States Government". No spin, just the actual rules. https://www.federalregister.gov/ https://www.federalregister.gov/

humaniania 7y ago

A new account looking for other places with geo political discussion? I am becoming more cautious about how freely I share some knowledge.

m_alexgr 7y ago

Once upon a time I trusted the "news", and to be fair, it seemed more balanced than it is now. Maybe that was just naivete. Today? Hard to find any "news" that isn't slanted. The weather perhaps? "News" has become propaganda.

eldavido 7y ago

Local paper: SF Chronicle print edition. It's very good, great local issues coverage, which I wish people would pay more attention to, in general. Voting in California (especially Oakland, where I live) is never easy (42 questions last time!) and I felt like I knew what half of them were in advance, which is no small thing :) Economist for world news. First-class politics coverage. I always laugh at their briefings. It's like, OK, here we go. "Briefing: Climate change". I wouldn't be surprised if we get "Briefing: World peace". Weighty and substantive. Stratechery for tech news. It's great. I also read AVC (Fred Wilson's blog), Jason Crawford's new "Roots of Progress" from time to time. Less often I check out Remains of the Day or Wait But Why. If I'm really feeling ambitious I read foreign affairs. Straight from the US council on foreign relations (CFR). That's the real deal. I don't pay much attention to US national news. I don't care what nonsense Trump said. I do care intensely about local issues like transit, schools, pensions, and land use (zoning).

RickJWagner 7y ago

RealClearPolitics. Because twice daily it lists several outrageous stories from all sides of the political spectrum. I truly believe every news source today is biased, the only way to get any kind of balanced view is to scan them all and triangulate.

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superbaconman 7y ago

I like Bloomberg radio. Most of their stuff is through a global markets lens, so their stuff is less about how things should be and more about how they actually are.

vijayrc 7y ago

caspian report on youtube

vijayrc 7y ago

Caspian Report on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/CaspianReport https://www.youtube.com/user/CaspianReport Condensed news which are more like essays, 15-20mins for each topic, they set the historical context for the current events in a very objective way.

PopeDotNinja 7y ago
I like some of the channel's older content. The newer stuff is a bit opinionated for my taste.

cuechan 7y ago

/g/

arminiusreturns 7y ago

I have been compiling a list for quite some time now that I have been planning on doing some sort of scoring system of. There also many video sources that are great resources as well. That said, I will tell you the main lesson I have learned in my obsession for better understanding of the big picture; don't follow outlets, follow journalists, no matter where they go. So I was reading Greenwald long before The Intercept, and if he published somewhere else or gave an interview or talk I'd watch it. The same for others like Seymour Hersh, Robert Fisk, Nassim Taleb, Chris Hedges, Matt Taibbi, Aaron Mate, Whitney Webb et al. Find the ones that hit hard and keep their integrity. Disregard outlets. Use RSS/atom to avoid the crappy websites that often accompany the content.

cmdr2 7y ago

The Prepared, by Spencer Wright. Weekly email digest of really interesting things from the world of engineering and manufacturing. https://theprepared.org/ https://theprepared.org/

Smithalicious 7y ago

I don't have any. If something is truly important to my specific interests then my friends who share those interests will alert me to it. All news I get is word of mouth.

JohnL4 7y ago

Other than memeorandum (techmeme mentioned several times but not memeorandum??), there's The Weekly Sift (https://weeklysift.com/ https://weeklysift.com/)

whatitdobooboo 7y ago

Financial Times is great! Not worth the price if you dont split it with others, though.

WCityMike 7y ago

I use News Items (for-pay). https://newsitems.substack.com/ https://newsitems.substack.com/

SensateCreature 7y ago

For scientific nutrition, https://www.reddit.com/r/scientificnutrition https://www.reddit.com/r/scientificnutrition

Tylast 7y ago

I wish this question would've been asked 1 week later as I have been trying to find a good weekly summary for years. I got fed up & created my own. I finally published it this weekend, but had to wait 4 days for approval. Anyway, here it is: https://www.wnu.news/ https://www.wnu.news/