I always struggle with what sources I should be reading for news (particularly political news). I don’t want to read only sources that I agree with, but I also struggle finding news sources that aren’t sensationalist and put forward varied view points. Here are a few of the places I frequent (criticism of these sources or other recommendations are welcome.) I don’t think my political news sources are well varied so any recommendations there would be great as well.

  • hackernews
  • arstechnica
  • the economist
  • axios
  • MIT News
  • Wired
  • MerrySkeptic@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    11 months ago

    Here’s a good discussion on why you should vary your news sources along with some charts to show how sources vary and specific examples given. Maybe you can find what you’re looking for in there.

  • Shortstack@reddthat.com
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    11 months ago

    My main news sources are primarily NY Times, npr and a local city paper.

    It’s not a particularly varied list but I reached a point during the pandemic where I just couldn’t handle the firehose of low effort journalism doom and gloom anymore. Opted to choose a couple of quality, relatively neutral sources and cut out the reddit feed. Npr is left leaning in their content and nytimes feels slightly left leaning on their journalism pieces, but based on the political op-ed writeups on the front page that I rarely read it looks right leaning

    Initially I paid for a nytimes subscription until I found that I could get a library card from a sort of nearby large city in my state through a statewide reciprocal library card program, at which point I found that better funded library offers a free subscription to the nytimes to any cardholder, so that’s how I get access now. I find their higher quality of journalism to be like a breath of fresh air after getting hot boxed every day from the low effort shit that reddit fed us

  • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
    1·
    11 months ago

    BBC for international news, CBC for national news and Nature for science news. That gets me the basic discussion, I have to go to niche communities devoted to a specific issue if I want the real story about things.

  • nutomic@lemmy.ml
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    3 years ago

    Keeping it limited to English language news sites:

    • teleSUR News from Venezuela, gives a very different perspective and reports many news from the global south, which are simply ignored in western media.

    • Ruptly If there are protests anywhere in the world, they will have videos.

    • Global Times From China, which will be the biggest economy in a few years. So even if you dont agree with them, its good to know what they are doing, and why.

    • lordofbud@lemmy.ml
      03·
      3 years ago

      So even if you dont agree with them

      I mean, they’re a state run media, it’s a deceptive propaganda machine that honest people should find themselves disagreeing with, they’re only useful for knowing what the CCP is doing, and maybe getting a glimpse at why, but usually, the “why” is a lie.

      I’d trust them as much as I trust Fox News to give me the truth.

      • nutomic@lemmy.ml
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        3 years ago

        Sounds to me like you made up your opinion without reading a single article of theirs.

        • lordofbud@lemmy.ml
          02·
          3 years ago

          I made up my opinion after they pushed a narrative in the face of reality time and time again. Like the endless “articles” claiming their forced labor camps are a lie, and their utilization in pushing false calm to the world about covid in the early days.

          They are a state run organization under the control of a totalitarian regime who only pretends to be communist, their “articles” reflect that. As I said, they’re only useful in seeing where the wind is blowing.