JSTOR, Cochrane reviews, trade journals, and live blogs. Mostly I've gravitated away from "news" to sources. Picking good sources is hard, though. Generally I

JSTOR, Cochrane reviews, trade journals, and live blogs. Mostly I've gravitated away from "news" to sources. Picking good sources is hard, though. Generally I find it has to be the case that specialists writing about their specialism are the people who knowledge originates with, even when it isn't lay people. Where curation is worth it is in reviews. The London Review of Books will introduce a wide array of new literature to me and prepare the ground for approaching those books by explaining the content and critically analysing it. Statistical literacy also helps - for this I've read David Spiegelhalter's Art of Statistics, which is for the lay reader. News-wise, single generally credible sources are hard to come by. The Guardian does good live blogs, especially on UK parliamentary debates. The New York Times has a solid but anglocentric newsgathering operation, but tragically partisan opinion. Le Monde Diplomatique is good for international stuff from a francophone perspective. tl;dr, navigate institutions, not search engines. Institutions are in effect communities with a culture that guards against rot algorithms can't perceive.