What's your mains source of news?

[LaVitesse2022]

With the decline of good written journalism, polarisation of the media, and the fragmentation of the news landscape, how do people keep updated with the news these days? I don't mean daily news but rather informative reflections on current affairs, with the odd interesting piece to broaden horizons? There are good substacks but I would like a single place/newsletter I could subscribe that would give me links to interesting current pieces around the Web. Any suggestions? For info, I already subscribe to Helen Lewis's Blue stocking but I feel it's increasingly too niche

TikTok mostly.

I listen to The Rest is Politics and The Rest is Politics US and feel I learn a lot from both.

I get my daily news from a mixture of The Guardian, R4, and BBC website. My DH subscribes to The Economist so I sometimes read that and I think it’s pretty good.

Just to add, TRIP do a newsletter with some links to interesting pieces online. I’ve considered subscribing to The New European but not sure I have time to read more at the moment.

BBC
Press and journal (local Aberdeen paper)

It used to be Twitter but that’s a hell trap of far right American lunacy and Andrew Tate bollox these days. I used to love it when it was all cat videos and puns. Now it’s just watching Elon Musk unraveling in real time.

I guess the radio, BBC News, my partner who follows it more closely than me. TBH I try to avoid it these days. It makes me too angry.

That's interesting, any particularly good channels? I'm asking because I think of TikTok aa the epitome of exactly what I'm trying to move away from: click-baity news and influences with polarising opinions.

I like ITV news.

Funny you mention The Economist because that used to be my go-to news aggregator. Love the fact they're a weekly mag, which means stuff gets written with a more reflective stance than daily news. They do have a free-market bias and I think their perspective can get a bit narrow at times. But perhaps there's no good alternative yet that's as wide-ranging, thoughtful yet accessible and relatively progressive...

I know about Trip though I don't listen regularly. Do you find there's a good balance between range of issues discussed and detail? I'll check out the newsletter (my favourite medium to consume news/current affairs is still the written word)

The BBC is definitely my go-to source of daily news and I'm satisfied with their factuality. I suppose I miss reading interesting op-eds which you can't really get there (can you get from any mainstream news outlet?)

YouTube plus a scan of the headline in the guardian, telegraph and on bbc news.

I know! Twitter used to be perfect for this. But it's definitely a far-right cesspit atm and part of the polarisation problem. I find LinkedIn, which is the platform that most closely replaced it - too self-promoting and not really conducive to sharing interesting takes or content.

YouTube, interesting; do you subscribe to particular channels or just go by what's presented on your feed? Hadn't thought about YouTube as a source of info on current affairs.

The Atlantic
The New Yorker
The FT
The New York Times
The Guardian
Radio 4
Byline Times

podcasts - The Bulwark
Deadline White House
Rachel Maddow

Bluesky

Not all, every day, but I subscribe to all of the above and dip in and out.

(I'm American)

TRIP is good because they do make an effort to report on a lot of global news that other outlets completely ignore. Last week they did an excellent piece on China, and they regularly report on Europe—as Alistair Campbell is fluent in French and German—as well as the Middle East, where Rory has a lot of experience.

I like The News Agents podcast for a daily update, though like many they are currently suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome. He is important, obviously, but they don't need to report on every bonkers, trolly thing he or Musk says.

For traditional UK daily news, Channel 4 has the best reporting. The 7pm programme is excellent.

I'm trying Flipboard, you can choose your interests and mute sources you don't like.
I listen to The News Agents most days.
I have the newspapers on Readly too but I wish the app was better. I quite like that it doesn't use scrolling though because it's less compulsive I find.

BBC
The Times

I love the news and use a lot of sources. BBC app is my go to. I trust what’s on there and if I feel I need to fact check something that’s where I usually end up. Then if a story particularly interests me I’ll google it and read various news articles through google, especially from The Guardian and various newspaper sites. I have to admit I do have the Daily Mail app too and enjoy reading that because it’s trashy and full of showbiz stuff that I don’t see anywhere else 🙈😂

I watch the news on tv three times a day (bbc or itv).
Watch Laure Kuenssberg on Sunday mornings.
Watch politics midlands on Sunday mornings.
Watch politics live in bbc 2 each lunch day.
Watch question time weekly.
Watch Peston when on.

Times, Telegraph, Guardian, NYT and BBC apps. Bit of Reuters and the Economist.

TRIP and TRIP US plus sometimes Pod Save America and the Bulwark. Can’t stand Pod Save the Uk though.

I buy the print Sunday Times most weeks and also subscribe to the Guardian and New York Times online.

DM first thing, to see if anyone famous has died/had sex overnight.

The Guardian and The Times with my morning tea (the latter mainly for the non cryptic puzzles!). DP has France 24 on TV. Listen to Nick Ferrari to make sure my blood pressure is working and James O'Brien for my filter bubble. TRIP US is must listen, TRIP is when I remember. Alternate between Ch4 news and CNN in the evening.

DM last thing to see if anyone famous had sex during the day.

@MotherofPearl I listen to that American one but also two others because that one is excellent but still extremely biased.

I like the Reuters app too, for a straightforward newswire feed with solid neutral reporting.

Bluesky is good,loads of good journalists and an international feel, like Twitter before it went weird. Andrew Marr at 6pm on lbc and James O Brien on catch up lbc. tF1 for an international view. Some bbc especially the verify shows, I’ve gone off Today in recent years; some bias showing most days sadly.