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

Newsround - lots of surfing dogs
Radio 4 - news comedy shows

I think Channel 4 news is good. It tends to cover fewer stories, but in more depth. I agree that The Rest is Politics is also really interesting and informative.

BbC news ap
Bbc radio 4
Bbc website
Guardian website
I paper
An app called Squid which aggregates other news sources

Mumsnet and Buzzfeed 😅

Radio 4. It’s the first thing I listen to in the morning & the last thing I hear at night, wherever I am in the world.

Plus both The Times & The Guardian to get mainstream conservative & left-liberal perspectives. I also follow many leading political journalists on X. In general, I find it more interesting to read opinions I disagree with than those I agree with.

Radio and TV.

Thanks for all the suggestions everyone. I might need to give radio a go. I tend to dislike most podcasts though, I just rather read something as I'm more in control of time spent on it. Can just skim and abandon or read more carefully, if that makes sense.

Some people suggested aggregator apps - any thoughts on Grounded? Just subscribed to it to see if I get on. I used to have Readly many years ago, have to check it out again

I'm old school, so Radio 4 plus websites for Telegraph, Times and (occasionally) Guardian.
BBC website is too dumbed down.
Not on TilTok.
Twitter only to link to sites I already read.

Radio 4 when in the house alone.
BBC News and Newsnight
Channel 4 News
Bluesky for all the journalists, academics and commentators who used to be on Twitter.
Don't have TikTok
Financial Times if linked to an interesting article. For some reason, I seem to be able to get around the paywall but I'm not sure why.

I'm in Australia and have subscriptions to partial hard copy deliveries of The Age and The Australian to qualify for online free. They are neither of them great and The Australian is poisonous but has a good weeknd magazine. Also The Guardian online and Wall Street Journal. BBC news online.

I need to check out BlueSky.

I read everything on my laptop and only watch TV for 'Gardening Australia' on a Friday night. It's the bloody ads do my head in.

BBC News online
Scotsman

Telegraph, Times, Guardian online
Newscast/Americast podcasts from the BBC
local news first thing/local paper weekly for perspective
The Rest Is History podcasts, for the ‘jeez, it’s all cyclical’ reassurance/depression

Apple News + which lets me subscribe to some magazines and stories on topics of interest. Then I assume it works out an algorithm for me based on what i click on on various apps etc, apparently, called Siri suggestions

BBC radio for my region .

I think you might like The Conversation (UK version) OP. It's articles written by UK academics from a range of different universities. They're normally researchers into what they write about.

Anything by Tim Harford is usually good too. More or Less or his various podcasts.

I love these too. Especially the Mooch! You should try the Newsagents podcast too. Emily Matilis, Jon Sopel and Lewis Goodall. It’s a well balanced look at all the issues, and they have some good contacts on background.

My go to is BBC website. I find that both sides complain the BBC are biased, which means largely they will give a balanced view. If I want to know more on a particular story, I’ll look at others to get information. I find any of the social media platforms are far too skewed either way and their algorithms mean I’d miss a balanced view so I would never rely on them.

I’m a traditionalist. I don’t do TikTok, X, etc., etc..

I subscribe to the Times, FT and the Economist. Listen to Times Radio when I can.

I don’t feel like I’m missing anything that matters tbh, but I guess I could be!

I loved Crooked Media and pretty much all they do. Tommy Vietor’s Pod Save the World is great for global news, but I’m with you on Pod Save the U.K. I think it’s because I’ve never been a fan of Nish’s presenting style.

I’ve just discovered the Age’s podcasts. I really like them.

The pod guys pretty much got us through the first Trump administration, although I've moved over to more Bulwark these days, but I agree - Pod Save the UK just doesn't work.

BBC world service. I got so frustrated with R4 and Times radio is ok but still annoying at times.

Someone recommended BBC WS and the quality and tone is far better imo. It doesn’t provoke as much. It informs, and it’s much wider than just U.K. news.

I disagree that there's been a decline in good written journalism but leaving that aside ..

Like others I like TRIP and The News Agents (although agree that there's an element of Trump derangement syndrome). I also like Tortoise Media's daily news round up. They do a good overview of a major story and then a 'why should you care' kind of explainer about the context. They've also just bought the Observer so that'll be interesting.

Radio 4 at 7am and 6pm if around.
i look at the BBC app.
subscriptions to Private Eye, The Economist, New York Times and New Yorker.

I think I was probably quite depressed a while ago, so I cut down on my exposure to the news. I picked things up from friends, colleagues, and FB during this time.

I feel a bit better now, and I now but the Guardian on as Saturday to make sure I have some understanding of what might be going on.

I do think exposure to all of the bad news from everywhere every day is damaging.

Thank you for suggesting Tortoise Media. Did a browse through their website and it looked promising. Have just subscribed!

Sounds like there's a consensus over TRIP. I'll check out The News Agents too. I'll give another chance to The Economist. BBC News is my go-to for daily headlines but I feel it's not great for longer pieces / explainers. I like The Observer so will give it a go.

I'm familiar with The Conversation but it hadn't occurred to me to use it as a regular source of reflective pieces. Thanks for the suggestion