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The Economist and The New Yorker are both high-quality and put almost all of their content from the print magazines in their RSS feeds, and between the two of t
by wheels 17y ago
The Economist and The New Yorker are both high-quality and put almost all of their content from the print magazines in their RSS feeds, and between the two of them it's nice getting a European / US and center-right / center-left perspective.
The biggest problem is that The Economist RSS feed is only updated once a week, so you've got this deluge of info. Still I find it my primary source for serious news. The New Yorker features some of the best investigative journalism and high-quality writing, but doesn't make an attempt to cover the full spectrum of ordinary news in any given week.
- bengebre 17y agoThumbs up to the New Yorker and the Economist. For daily news I find that the New York Times does an excellent job. You'll never see something like 'All-male college cracks down on cross-dressing' there (I pulled that from CNN's "latest news" just a second ago). The top-left column (to the left of the center image) contains the current top stories. This is always serious news. The Business, Science and Technology sections (among others) are always worth reading as well. For offline news I really recommend The News Hour on PBS with Jim Lehrer. Excellent in depth coverage of important happenings worldwide. Each night they focus on 2-4 issues and speak on them for 10-20 minutes each. I learn a ton from that show. They gave that boy in a balloon story the other day about 10 seconds of coverage in the intro update before they moved on and started talking about real news.