Wikipedia current events portal for no-nonsense, just the facts headlines. Google news for everything else. Curious to hear what others use.
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Oooh. I like this. I'd forgotten Wikipedia has a news section!
Aren't google news biased to what you would like to see?
Yes by default. I have all personalization settings turned off that are user accessible. You can also disable news sources that you don't like - for me it's all the adwalled sites like NYT
The Conversation is a really good source of content that is really interesting. Zero clickbait and really interesting topics.
It a really good source of info.
You get easily digestible academic papers on current topics.
It's free as in beer and freedom.
And from my academic standpoint they seem to do a really good job although I have not yet written an article with them.
Never heard of it before. Thank you so much!
I'm in the US so Reuters, NPR, AP. But there are so many "news" websites around anymore I usually take everything I read with a dose of skepticism and I look at Snopes and MediaBiasFactCheck often.
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I have to lean myself off of social media for news. I'm transitioning to just getting all my news off of RSS feeds, which I subscribe to various sites that I trust.
Work at a news station, so I see the national and local news every day. Also some email subs and social media like lemmy and mastodon, sometimes Tumblr
Mainstream: RSS from national newspaper (on the todo list) or their paper version if I have time at work.
tech and activism: mastodon, lemmy
My friends mention anything interesting, and then I look it up.
I stopped looking at news myself.
I don't really bother much with daily news.
From Lemmy.
I like this. I hope that Lemmy becomes large enough so that I eventually feel that the news is constantly being uploaded by users, especially local news!
I worry that using link aggregators and micro blogging for news is not a form that is conducive to positive outcomes. I don't remember where, but it might have been on the Center for Humane Technology's podcast where I found out about a team of engineers who recommended the separation of community and news consumption.
When reading a traditional newspaper or news feed the reader consumes the news alone, and they have time to process what they have read and form their own opinions. When consuming news from social media sources the reader will usually be heavily influenced by the dominate opinions in the comments section, and they are less likely to form their own opinions.
In other words, the structure of a Reddit, Lemmy, Twitter, or Facebook is fundamentally geared toward eroding civic discourse and critical thought while fostering mob-mentality.
Some of the proposed engineering fixes were to disallow posting to comments sections until the reader passed some check that verified they read an entire article, and only allowing the user to read others comments after the user had either posted their own comment, or enough time (hours or days) had lapsed so that the user would likely have formed their own opinions and would be less likely to engage in emotional group-think.
Verifying commenters read an entire article would be challenging and annoying, and a time-delay before posting would undermine the appeal of current social media, however, so these ideas haven't been explored.
Edit: Change pronouns to be more inclusive.
his own opinions
What happens in the case of her or their?
then maybe we c0uld have a news community without comments, or well, i didnt use to read news before because reaching to so many of them was exhausting so its better than nothing i guess
It has grown a lot over the last few months! So I am hopeful that it will continue to do so
RSS feeds from a number of sites. Mainly Il Post to keep up with what's happening in the world and in my country. I frequently browse lemmy and sometimes HackerNews. I also follow some subreddits. I keep up with both RSS feeds and reddit feeds from Telegram, because it's easy to use both from desktop and mobile, and I can easily share news to family & friends, or forward them to a bot that saves them to my Wallabag
Yep I do the same with self-hosted FreshRSS for RSS feeds, and Wallabang.
My nextcloud server syncs several RSS news feed which then syncs to my phone and other devices...
Which feeds?
I had some errors with that... but thanks for reminding me of this feature. I got to work on it to make it work.
If you want you could post your RSS links here so others could copy them :)
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From RSS feeds from news sites
RSS Feeds (Miniflux) , which consists of mostly technology/current news feeds. Some that I frequently find myself reading the most would have to be The Verge and MotherBoard.
I don't really worry about news atm, nothing i can do about what's going on. I figure the best thing i can do is gather knowledge.
I use a mix match of Telegram and Reddit custom multireddit feeds of my own.
Then there is https://swprs.org/media-navigator/ that I heavily use. This is another resource https://everythingprogressive.org/media/media_console.html
I also read a lot of news and posts on the communist and Chinese diaspora subreddits to get a fresh, "other side" of view to stay self critical, because staying self critical is the most unbiased and revolutionary act in these times of blind people forming and screaming opinions based on watching a handful news channels and websites of either liberal or conservative side.
Edit: I also do not rely on fact checkers and am good at finding the funders, trustees, company or government backings of a news media source, so it helps me. I do not trust Snopes or MBFC with questionable past and affiliations.
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Politico and Reuters mainly. I check Washington Post and NYT occasionally.
I am sad to say I see a lot poor way of gathering news sources. But RSS is pretty good and I use it myself, but I feel like it doesn't work that well for news. works better for blogposts, following youtube channels I feel.
I follow mostly regional and national news so I can't help you much there,
Every news site will report every major event, so you really you just need to choose one to follow regularly.
I'm mainly interested in the Middle East, so I check Al Jazeera daily. The output is manageable, not like a bunch of Western outlets that report on every tweet and non-issue, but they never miss anything actually important. Of course there's bias, but it's super obvious. More so than most. When there's actually something I consider worth following, I check out more sites.
reuters mostly, since I heard its where lots of other news orgs get their news (along with AP)
I hate the new reuters UI though and they seem to require a login now...
In case of Finnish news I mostly check HIGH.FI, the news aggregator from the creators of the technology site AfterDawn. The site appears to have an English version but I haven't used it.
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