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.
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?
#42I have been working on a news aggregator site- https://news.r1b.solutions/ github- https://github.com/r1b/news-wires
Happy to answer any questions.
Re: Ask HN: What good alteratives are there to Google News?
#43I 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 ;)
Re: Ask HN: What good alteratives are there to Google News?
#44Bing News is unfashionable, but it looks like old Google News: https://www.bing.com/news
- 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?
#45If 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?
#46Continuous stream of socially curated news, formatted for mobile.
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#49Re: Ask HN: What good alteratives are there to Google News?
#50The 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.