Please suggest best news website

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I want to stay more abreast of the news but don’t want to trawl The Daily Mail website. Please can you suggest alternatives that have balanced opinions. Thank you

I'm not sure you can get a 'balanced view' from one website.

You can read the Guardian and the Independent for free, although I think you may need to create an account and login.

You can subscribe to The Week magazine,

(extract from Wikipedia)
'The magazine's content largely consists of summaries of news stories and opinion columns published by other media outlets earlier in the week, and posts try to maintain a balanced perspective. Some summaries are based on articles in foreign media that were originally published in a language other than English.'

The best one I've found, typically also the fastest to post, is www.realnewsnotbs.com

I love The Week too.

All news is slanted, even if just by what they dont consider news. Read mumsnet as you are more likely to get balance here.

Reuters?

Google News app. You can follow a range of newspapers/magazines and select topics that you are most interested. The feed is arranged by headlines, world news, sports etc.

BBC

https://ground.news Might interest you OP.

Ideally a few different ones. BBC and also Sky news are better as they have to be unbiased, all the newspapers etc just reflect their owners politics

The BBC has its blind spots and biases especially when it comes to antisemitism.

Thank you - I’ll check out those suggestions.

I find it helps to say to myself "What does The Guardian (The Times, The Independent, BBC, Sky etc) think the news is today?"

Overtly framing it that way - acknowledging there will be a bias - helps me to keep a more open perspective on the various news media I read.

I liked the writing the The Times better, although it is more right wing than I am, but I couldn't afford the subrscription after a 6 month discounted rate.

BBC roundups of front pages are handy.

I’d not heard of this before but it looks great. Thanks!

I like reuters too, lots of mainstream media outlets pick stories up from them and then slant them to suit their readership I think

I sometimes look at https://www.aljazeera.com/news/ for a different slant on things, especially stuff that is not reported in the UK

@vendredinamechange I've found totally unexpected and interesting news stories on there too.