I have used YouTube, Reddit and Mastodon for news related to certain topics. Now I want to be more independent in finding my own news sources. However, there are so many sources on the internet I wouldn’t know where to begin to find them by myself.
I have used YouTube, Reddit and Mastodon for news related to certain topics. Now I want to be more independent in finding my own news sources. However, there are so many sources on the internet I wouldn’t know where to begin to find them by myself.
I’ve been getting back into RSS lately, after following some advice from somebody elsewhere on Lemmy. I’ve been using Inoreader, which has a pretty decent interface. They also have mobile apps which sync with each other so you can keep your reading progress across devices.
Yes, but what sources? I feel like finding a way to consume things is less difficult than actually choosing sources. It’s so much easier when you are using a link aggregation service that simply feeds you things selected by other users.
Inoreader has a bunch of preconfigured news sources you can subscribe to, and it also lets you add direct RSS feeds for and other sites you want.
Most of mine is gaming, tech, and world news. So things like IGN, Ars Technica, Wired, Verge, Polygon, Rock Paper Shotgun, Slashdot, and feeds to a few subreddits I still keep track of.
This website is helpful in checking/finding reliable sources.
For interesting, well-written, and in-depth articles I recommend:
The New Yorker Harper’s (not Harper’s Bazaar) The Atlantic New York Times Magazine
Just roll your own lists, that way you know where exactly the info is coming from, less risk of fake news. Kinda like making your own food at home vs eating out!
I like Axios for news, and News Minimalist which uses LLM to de-sensationalize news articles. Ars Technica for tech stuff.
Feeder is a nice RSS reader that works well for me.
I’ll check out Axios and News Minimalist.
I’ve used RSS a lot in the past, but what I’ve found is nowadays RSS feeds deliver way, way too much content for me to consume. I do subscribe to the New York Times, which at least gets me major headlines.
I use Google news but i know it’s feeding me what it thinks i want. For real news i use AP. I like Axios because they give “Go Deeper” or “Why it Matters”.
Can’t rely on who publishes the article, usually. And cannot read just one thing. Have to rely on the sources cited in the article.
Are they nobodies or are they learned professionals? If they are anonymous, is the author a serious, professional journalist?
Another good place to dig into stories is in court records and legal filings. Cuts through the bullshit.
Now, you’d be out of time if you tried to dig into every story. There is too much going on. Pick a thing you know and care about. Filter not by source but by subject.