Ask HN: How do you follow news outside HN

#1

Post by deepdmistry » Thu, Jun 03, 2021, 1:23 PM UTC

I myself sub to NYTimes as a way of supporting journalism and as a way of getting non hacker news, curious to know what outlets do people here follow?

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#2

Post by i5heu » Thu, Jun 03, 2021, 2:05 PM UTC

I get almost all my news from HN and my handy RSS-Reader.

My other main source is a state owned new-site witch i believe is pretty good https://www.dw.com/en/

I have subscribed a lot of small websites and blogs witch fill out niche interests for me.

I use a RSS Reader called inoreader.com . It can also notify me about YouTube videos etc. and websites that do not support RSS.

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Post by martinmjc » Thu, Jun 03, 2021, 3:02 PM UTC

I collect bookmarks (relevant news, sports, twitter accounts, lists, etc.) and review them daily.

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#4

Post by 5bolts » Thu, Jun 03, 2021, 3:31 PM UTC

HN, RSS (via newsblur) for some of the less "newsy" stuff - blogs/hackaday etc... then NPR while in transit, google news, aljazeera.com, bbc news.

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#5

Post by tofukid » Thu, Jun 03, 2021, 3:56 PM UTC

I use https://sumi.news to follow RSS, Twitter, and newsletters, and I’ve built up a list of hundreds of subscriptions over the years.

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Post by AnimalMuppet » Thu, Jun 03, 2021, 4:15 PM UTC

Google News, Reuters, and HN. Occasionally I look at AP. For sports, ESPN. Most everything I care about will show up one of those places.

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Post by a3n » Thu, Jun 03, 2021, 4:50 PM UTC

1. thehill.com, to see if anything stupid has happened in the US.

2. HN

3. NYT.com, to see if anything stupid of world wide importance has happened, and to see clips of late night comedy.

4. Random, but at this point I've usually had enough.

NPR used to be in there, but as a liberal I've grown tired of their liberal bias and leading question that's really a statement or accusation style of interview.

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Post by cpach » Thu, Jun 03, 2021, 4:54 PM UTC

For worldwide coverage: The Economist, which I prefer to read on paper. For national news: A daily newspaper. For local news: Another daily newspaper. The daily papers I read on my smartphone.

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#9

Post by cosmodisk » Thu, Jun 03, 2021, 6:00 PM UTC

I'm in the UK:

1) Financial Times

2) The Economist up until very recently.

3) The Guardian and The Daily Mail (to get some sort of balance,as these essentially are the opposite ends of the same stick)

4) A few news portals in my native Language.

5) Wired( when I'm completely bored and don't have anything else to read)

6) The local( when I want news from France/Sweden in English)

7) Breitbart ( need to check on them every now and then to see if the sentiment ever changes)

8) Some more niche papers on subjects I like.

9) Bloomberg

10) Occasional US based outlets.

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#10

Post by jp42 » Thu, Jun 03, 2021, 6:24 PM UTC

Twitter.

I have lists created by me for various topics that interests me. I constantly keep adding/removing based on signal/noise from the people/handles in those list.