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World news:
- [email protected] - The Guardian
- [email protected] - Al Jazeera
Climate / environment:
- [email protected] - Inside Climate News
- [email protected] - Mongabay
- [email protected] - Grist
- [email protected] - Planetizen
US News:
- [email protected] - The Guardian US
- [email protected] - BBC US
Tech and tech politics:
- [email protected] - Ars Technica
- [email protected] - 404 Media
- [email protected] - The Register
- [email protected] - Techdirt
US Politics:
- [email protected] - Mother Jones
- [email protected] - Pro Publica
- [email protected] - Good Politics / Political Law Blog
- [email protected] - The Drudge Report (I know! I’m as shocked as anybody. With a good-sized blacklist of crap sources in place, it’s actually pretty informative)
Rss is the way
Using this thing right here as an RSS reader! TIL.
[email protected] - Mongabay
An excellent source that I’m ashamed I only discovered recently. Consistently first-rate independent journalism on literally the most important subjects there are. Should be better known. Read. Donate.
Great other choices too.
You’re my hero.
Brb setting up RSS feeds on every device I’ve got
ground news
I’m usually trusting Reuters or AP news
Though I’ve heard of ground.news and have been thinking about subscribing, DAE have experience with them? Are they as unbiased as they claim?
Reuters usually has half decent articles, but they’re owned by billionaires out of Canada. This look into them was done late last year: https://sh.itjust.works/comment/12174374
AP has some sketch board members as shown here: https://sh.itjust.works/comment/12174861
It helps that their business model doesn’t rely primarily on ads or user tracking, and instead relies on subscriptions from other news businesses. This obviously isn’t perfect as they do serve some ads, and it requires those other businesses to exist and be profitable, but it’s a helpful layer of insulation.
I like AP News a lil better than Reuters. Axios and NBC News ain’t bad either if you’re okay with using sites that skew a lil farther to the left.
Yeah, corporate media is definitely “the left.” 🙄
Publically owned or controlled (or at least majority owned and controlled) news services in major countries
CBC - in Canada (where I’m from)
PBS - in the US
NPR - in the US
ABC - Australia
BBC - in the UK
France 24 - in France
NHK - in Japan
DW - in GermanyAlthough there are criticisms for each, at the very least, they give a good guidance to relevant straight forward news without too much spin.
What about NPR in the US as well
Thanks for the reminder … added!
My local government news. Call me a sheep but since they don’t farm clicks they seem to have the most nuanced and engaging stories. For-profit news these days are just doom-posting and rage bait.
@bigboismith You’re probably referring to some sort of public broadcaster, right? That’s actually quite a good source if the management is not politically controlled/infiltrated in any way by any political party
I try to stick to AP/Reuters. They tend to be more direct and less wordy. BBC, NPR, sometimes Guardian, NYT, and other news sources follow in approximately that order.
The BBC, AP, and Reuters are a good place to start.
I like Erin in the Morning, Propublica, and Bellingcat as well, but they require additional work to parse sometimes.
Personally I love PBS/NPR (both National and my local station; support your local station!), The Verge, TWiT/This Week in Tech, Daily Tech News Show, Democracy Now!, C4 News, and Web3 is Going Great.
I do my local national public radio every day. Great local coverage and balanced fact driven national coverage. I have donated to them for a decade now. No regrets
BBC Radio 4’s hourly news bulletin just before the Archers. That and BBC News headline notifications.
Not a news source, but commentary. I watch/listen to breaking points https://www.youtube.com/@breakingpoints
they cite drop site news frequently https://www.dropsitenews.com/
and I read Ken Klippenstein https://www.kenklippenstein.com/
Associated Press is great for world news. They’re a bit slow but you get less mistakes.
For important news like Linux news, destination Linux, brodie Robinson and the Linux experiment are my goto.
less mistakes
oh the dross other outlets push aren’t mistakes …
What does dross mean?
waste, garbage, trash, The scum that forms on the surface of molten metal as a result of oxidation, worthless
You get fewer mistakes
I’m sorry, the irony was too much to ignore
I haven’t noticed the AP being that slow in comparison to other outlets IMHO
Democracy now is doing excellent coverage of palestine. Also the majority report.
I don’t follow news. If it’s big enough, it will reach me some or the other way.
Judd Legum, actual journalist who does the legwork.
I used to be a Google News junkie, but I stopped using their products. Now, I have a more streamlined view via these two: https://www.newsminimalist.com/ https://www.boringreport.org/app
