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How Do You Consume Your News?

Huntn

Huntn

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How do you consume your news?

This morning I was looking at Apple News+. It includes The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, but is missing Washington Post, New York Times, and USA Today. My wife has both Washington Post and USA Today individually which we share, , and I’m thinking will be more economical to subscribe back to The Atlantic, instead of $10 a month for Apple News+ with the Washington Post and USA Today as extra expenses.
 
I go to Bing.com and browse through the topics at the bottom, which are usually just trending stories. They try to keep it pretty inpartial so far. Now there are ads in-between, but still good.
 
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I have similar interests and have been subscribing to Apple News+ since it was first introduced, but I also find it necessary to supplement that with a limited number of other subscriptions because there is simply not any single news aggregator that will provide all of the key news sources that someone might desire to read. Everyone has their own preferences of course, and the ones you are mentioning are either excluded from Apple News+ (presumably due to their own paywall and subscription requirements) or are given only limited access via Apple News+.

Re the ones you asked about, NY Times is not included at all in Apple News+ and requires a separate digital subscription. Washington Post does have some limited articles available on Apple News+, when you view the articles when using Apple News+ it will indicate which are 'subscription' and which are not. USA Today is available on Apple News+ although the content is probably not complete, for that I assume you need a separate subscription.

The benefit of Apple News+ is the access to a wide variety of sources, albeit not 'complete'. But it is a pretty good collection of sources, in my opinion. If you are regularly reading Atlantic and Vanity Fair then I would suggest also looking at The New Yorker, Esquire, Rolling Stone, GQ - all of which (particularly The New Yorker) have good stories. I also am following a wide variety of other publications on Apple News+ although its impossible to keep up with everything.

There are other news sources that, for a subscription fee and similar to Apple News+, do cover a broad spectrum of news sources. For example, you might take a look at inkl, which may be more suitable for your interests. It does state that it includes NY Times, although I haven't subscribed myself to inkl so I can't confirm that it provides unlimited access to NYT content. And inkl is pretty much focused on 'news' i.e. journalism (with a broad spectrum of international publications included), vs magazine and more entertainment-focused sources that Apple News+ does include but inkl does not.

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inkl vs Apple News - how do the apps stack up? A deep dive into the content, discovery and experience of reading the news.
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RSS feeds of:

- Major Universities in my field.

- WHO, UN, IMF ... Any other relevant international org.

- Intelligence agencies of G7 countries.

- Investor relations for corporations I am a shareholder of.

- A handful of Personnal blogs.

- A handful of Youtube channels.

I read some diplomacy/ investigative journalism journals (Rarely weekly, never daily) namely: le monde diplomatique, foreign policy and the NZZ's special dossiers.

And some macrumors when on the loo.
 
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Apple News for a quick browse of headlines and other stories of interest. Usually just in the morning with my coffee.

No tv news.
 
Paid: WaPo, Time mag, Salt Lake Tribune (now a non-profit)
TV: PBS, CBS, CNN (Fareed Zakaria only)
Free (sites and sources): Defense News' Early Bird, Robert Reich, George Will, John Oliver (yeah I know he's a "comedian", but...), Beau of the Fifth Column

A timely thread; who funds your news sources is critically important in these times (and yes I know Bezosebub owns part of WaPo) ;)
 
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Several hundred RSS feeds, synchronized via Bazqux.com, and viewed together with my Reddit and Twitter feeds in NetNewsWire on macOS, iOS and iPadOS.
 
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My news is consumed primarily on my Mac, since that is the 'device' I sit in front of for about 18 hours each day.

Primary - Google News. There's two options here though. At some point Google switched to their 'new' style of news and so when you go direct to the site you get that style. If I want just a basic overview, I go there. But, if I want a little more in depth, then I will simply go to Google and type in my search term. Once I get a list, I will then click on the 'News' tab. That gives me the 'old' Google News style and tends to be way more topical. I can also, then limit my search results by time (I usually set 24 hours) which gets rid of older results.

Secondary, but generally hits up all my interest (because I'm logged in)…+3 for Flipboard.

Tertiary - If I'm bored, I'll hit up Yahoo News. Generally they tend to have more 'entertainment' type news, in between the garbage ads and National Enquirer headlines.

My news is consumed this way during the course of my day in between whatever else I'm doing. Again…in front of a Mac about 18 hours a day.

Oh yeah…I'm Gen-X so, the TV is on for background noise. From 4:00am to 10:00am that's local news channels.

I don't really use Apple News on my Macs. The one Mac I would consume it on is my MacPro and the font is generally too small on my 30" displays. I do use it at the end of the day though. When I go to bed, usually Apple News is consumed on my iPad. When I start to get to the point that Apple News is regurgitating the same stories over and over, I switch to the Google News app. That app has a finite amount of stories in the two sections I use (Latest, and Entertainment). Once I've exhausted those two sections, I open the Opera browser on my iPad and go to Flipboard. Generally, by the time Flipboard starts to flip out and reload I'm ready for sleep.
 
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RSS feed app is the way to go. Most of the time you can get the same feed for free that is paid on other apps and platforms. An RSS feed also gives you the ability to pick which feeds you want. I use Inoreader on the phone and WatchFeeds on the Apple Watch.
 
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Apple_Robert said:
RSS feed app is the way to go. Most of the time you can get the same feed for free that is paid on other apps and platforms. An RSS feed also gives you the ability to pick which feeds you want. I use Inoreader on the phone and WatchFeeds on the Apple Watch.
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Can you get NY Times this way? New Yorker, Atlantic, and other similar magazines?
 
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Can you get NY Times this way? New Yorker, Atlantic, and other similar magazines?
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RSS will only offer up snippets (what is contained inside the syndication message), used to be full articles.

Most readers have an integrated browser popup that will display the article on the newspaper's website, if paywalled, simply register and you should be golden.
 
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JahBoolean said:
RSS will only offer up snippets (what is contained inside the syndication message), used to be full articles.

Most readers have an integrated browser popup that will display the article on the newspaper's website, if paywalled, simply register and you should be golden.
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Thanks. The ones I mentioned all require subscription to access more than a few articles each month. One of the values of Apple News+ is that it gives a more complete access to many newspapers and magazines, but not all of course which is why the OP asked the question.

But given the comments here I'll have to check out RSS feeds sometime. Thanks.
 
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Apple News+ does give a compelling value offering, albeit at the cost of some external curation.

Depending on your priorities both options could be exclusive or complementary, real simple syndication is one of those leftover pearls of the earlier internet, I can't emphasize the epistemic advantage afforded by that level of control over sources enough*.
 
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Since I live in the suburbs of Washington, DC, of course The Washington Post is my local paper... I have an online subscription to it and read it daily. I don't watch much TV but if there is something major going on in the world or this country, I do tune in to a local station to keep up with what's happening. Sometimes I'll learn about an event by a post written by someone else on one of the forums at which I hang out and then I immediately go check the news sources to learn more.
 
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I'm still a dinosaur and have a ton of subscriptions to outlets that have, what I consider to be, good journalism.
It costs money to produce a good story, in depth, and if someone doesn't pay then all we will be left with is the Daly Mail and headline stories about some celebrity going to the supermarket and showing a bit of side-boob.
This from the FT and I believe it is free to watch
www.ft.com

How London became the dirty money capital of the world

Russian oligarchs and companies have been investing in London for two decades, encouraged by British politicians of all stripes, but critics say the 'London laundromat' cleans dirty money from Russia and across the globe. The FT examines why it took Russia's invasion of Ukraine to put the issue...
www.ft.com www.ft.com
 
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Online:
- The Guardian
- YLE.fi (Finnish news)
- CBC sparingly

Television:
- YLE
- France 24 live (the English version). I find this to be a very good channel.
 
Online.

For national news I visit a national news agency (ANSA) and a news aggregation website (Dagospia), plus four local news websites.

For international news: Reuters, AP, Axios, BBC and France 24 (French), and Robert Reich's channel on YouTube. less frequently Bloomberg and CBS News; France 24 was the only source that was doing a really good coverage of the war in Ukraine, instead of giving opinions they were explaining what was happening and, most importantly, why it was happening

Newspapers and news channels I find them to be mostly op-eds, I visit newspapers websites only when they have some kind of proper investigative piece, an exclusive interview or some other kind of exclusive content, and when I do visit them it usually is The Guardian, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal or Washington Post.

All news TV channels are just used for background noise when doing something like cooking or eating.

I do visit, however, the NYT's best sellers list every weekend, along with Bill Gates' website's books section, to find new books to read.

I also like to read articles on Seeking Alpha and Market Watch, I'm not an investor, but I like to understand what's going on.

As for tech news it's MacRumors, The Verge, Neowin, 9to5Mac, then YouTube channels (LTT, Mac Address, Techlore, Dave2D, Unbox Therapy, JerryRigEverything, iFixit, Mobile Tech Review).

For sports news it's just the NFL website and The Pat McAfee Show.
 
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For international news: Reuters, AP, Axios, BBC and France 24 (French), and Robert Reich's channel on YouTube. less frequently Bloomberg and CBS News; France 24 was the only source that was doing a really good coverage of the war in Ukraine, instead of giving opinions they were explaining what was happening and, most importantly, was it was happening
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I fully agree. They have good coverage and a host of interesting programs such as The Debate, Revisited, Reporters, Encore, In The Press, etc.
 
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