News are usually not as time sensitive as you think, and if they really are then all your colleagues around you will already be talking about it. I would find

News are usually not as time sensitive as you think, and if they really are then all your colleagues around you will already be talking about it. I would find it comforting to be able to finish reading the news every day, just like a news paper. I also like the way you can refer to stories if everyone read the same news, "did you read the top news", as opposed to hacker news where items on the front page can go up and down by the minute. The constant refreshing of news is such a time sink. Picking the right stories for a fixed list of stories of course requires good editorizing