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Ask HN: What good alteratives are there to Google News?

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Re: Ask HN: What good alteratives are there to Google News?

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I haven't recently found a news organisation that is consistently rational and has done their homework. Given that news is still worth reading, in moderation. I roll my own sources including: 1. A variety of newsfeeds through a desktop reader. (Can be improved by writing your own rating system.) 2. A list of news sources on a web page, this evolves. (Would also benefit from code that throws out the things I'll never…

I find the print version of The Week to be surprisingly consistent in their balanced review of high quality news sources. Sadly, the online version is a bit click-baity, but the print version is amazing.

Why is it that their Android app hasn't been updated in three years?

Re: Ask HN: What good alteratives are there to Google News?

#43

I have been working on a news aggregator site- https://news.r1b.solutions/ github- https://github.com/r1b/news-wires

I love it! Simple, informative, and just what I've been looking for in a news site. Expect some ETH coming your way ;)

Thank you! You can expect more features in the coming weeks including additional sources, filtering & feeds.

Re: Ask HN: What good alteratives are there to Google News?

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Bing News is unfashionable, but it looks like old Google News: https://www.bing.com/news

Initially Bing News looked good, but after using it there are a few issues:

- Payday loan spam (two spams on the front page)

- No way to customize your interests

- Duplicated stories with near identical headlines appear from multiple sources. This isn't usually an issue with Google.

Re: Ask HN: What good alteratives are there to Google News?

#45
The daily hour-long version here is the only regular news I consume(minus notify NYC RSS): https://www.youtube.com/user/PBSNewsHour/videos I find them to be less jumpy than similar news sources, probably due to the lack of incentives to bring in massive profit.

If I am interested in something specific/real time, I will open up google news, reddit news, twitter, local news, web search, popular newspaper sites(nytimes, washington post etc.) and/or other relevant places.

Re: Ask HN: What good alteratives are there to Google News?

#50
I'll throw a vote out for the New York Times daily briefing:

The sample looks like https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/05/briefing/north-korea-cnn-...

It is exactly what it sounds like—a quick daily briefing of the most important things that have happened over night—kinda as if you're the President.

There is a URL that you don't need to update each day to hit, but for the life of me I can't remember it at the moment.

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