Have a Lovely Weekend.

While I do keep up generally on national news, in the spirit of building community and exercising power where I can, I’ve been focusing more than I had been on local news. For me that’s NYC and my favorite is HellGate (https://hellgatenyc.com) From the website, they are “a subscriber-funded, worker-owned news outlet about New York City, named for the city’s sturdiest (and handsomest) bridge over its most treacherous currents.” I subscribe now but I got hooked reading their free “Morning Spew” newsletter which, helpfully, links to a bunch of other great sources including Gothamist.

I’m a little late to this comment thread, but I can’t believe I haven’t read more mentions for 1440 Digest. I read it every morning. I love that it presents articles from all different sources to try to eliminate bias. It is just the right amount of news for me!

My daily news check ins are with NPR and The Guardian. And Jessica Yellin’s News Not Noise via instagram.

NYT, The Economist, BBC, NPR – local WYSO, and PBS.

I’m buggin’! I love Clueless as much as the next millennial (maybe more?) but was disappointed to read just this morning that in 2023, Alicia Silverstone publicly endorsed RFK Jr. I can’t find any evidence that she’s changed course since then. Do with this information what you will, but I won’t be watching. Looks like this show might be a full-on Monet!

Aaron Parnas on TikTok

Jessica Yellin’s News Not Noise is a great newsource – on Instagram and Substack!

My firstborn baby is graduating high school in a few weeks and will be going away to FSU. I am still in shock and horrified by the recent mass shootings. Let’s not normalize, move on, and forget about them. This is not normal.

I’m still reeling over the shooting at FSU. My firstborn baby is graduating high school in a few weeks and will be attending FSU. We cannot let this become normal and just move on from the horrific reality of school shootings.

Facepalm – forgot my favorite news source: ProPublica !

I get my news from New York magazine’s web site (also love getting the print magazine delivered) and PBS NewsHour – I listen to it as a podcast (it’s the audio from the show).

My wife and I only had three vows to one another when we got married last year. My favorite was “I promise to stay soft with you no matter how hard life gets.” It is such a simple promise, but a beautiful orientation to continuously be kind to one another no matter what else life throws at us.

Love the Free Press.

I didn’t read all the comments, so I hope that someone already shared her! Jessica Yellin is my go to when news is scary and complicated. I highly recommend her. Her website is News Not Noise. They give you “information, not panic attacks.” And I also recently started following Aaron Parnas on social media. Both of these people have a background in journalism and don’t make me feel like the world is completely out of control.

The Free Press! And I second other readers’ suggestions of foreign press. I recently had an inside view on something that was reported inaccurately most everywhere, and Hindustan Times was the closest to getting the facts right.

Life hack – Apple News+ includes nearly all the publications cited already – WSJ, NPR, BBC, Sunday Times, Toronto Star, Reuters, The Atlantic, NYMag, New Yorker, lots of local papers (LA Times for me), and more… in one subscription.

Wall Street Journal and NPR daily for national news. The Hill and Politico when I want details on the federal government. For a quick update of top headlines, Apple News “Top Stories” (which are picked by actual journalistic editors, not the algorithmic echo chamber of the rest of the app) and the email news summaries from WSJ and NPR (both are free). Our family subscribes to The Week Junior, which is an excellent news source for kids (age 7-14) – but also, my older kids and I always read it, too! I particularly like their global news summary spread, which genuinely covers news items I would have otherwise missed. For local news, my local station (OPB!!) and I subscribe to a local newspaper online. I also read The Economist and Christian Science Monitor, which I get through my library, but not as often as I’d like since I can only read them on my phone. I will sometimes check BBC NewsHour and The Guardian for global news. PBS NewsHour is excellent but I don’t catch it as often as I’d like.

I want to second the comment that recommended the Ad Fontes Media bias chart. You can find it here: https://app.adfontesmedia.com/chart/interactive I work in politics in a non-partisan role and once you start being aware of spin and bias, it’s everywhere. It’s my opinion that one of the most impactful steps you can take is to broaden where you get your news. If you read an important story, seeks out two other versions of that story to confirm it’s real and to account for bias in the original source. Living in an echo chamber is dangerous for everyone! Daily, I read newsletters from The Wall Street Journal, Axios, and Politico. I also appreciate local journalism – in Colorado, the Colorado Sun does outstanding reporting and the Denver Post does good work too. The AP and Reuters are great places to read articles from multiple perspectives. If you’re going to consume media, start to be aware of your own biases and challenge them!

Thank you for posing this question and Thank You all for responding! I’ve bookmarked dozens of news outlet recommendations with the indent of sharing links with our community lunch group!

Groundnews.com will show you, with a bar graph beneath the story, which way the bias ‘leans’. I find this very helpful.

NPR BBC (International page) Guardian Reuters/AP Philadelphia Inquirer (last large privately owned newspaper in the US; reasonably priced and focused on local issue but with plenty of larger scope). I read headlines on Atlantic, NYT, WaPo to have an idea what they’re discussing. I also really enjoy the Google-prompted stuff that comes up when I open a new browser tab on my phone. I clear my history frequently, and that helps to clear the bias. Sometimes I find myself surprisingly well informed just by scanning those headlines; it also helps keep me current on fashion trends, music, and pop culture so my kids think I know what I’m talking about.

Full disclosure, I work for an NPR affiliate station in the Midwest, so of course I start with NPR. But, because my family has suffered a huge rift since the first Trump presidency, I force myself to check the Fox News website most days. I want to understand the framing of the news my family consumes. It is jarring. Just one example, the photos used by sites with journalistic integrity vs the photo-illustrations used by info-tainment sites- it’s such a tell of the propaganda at play. Also, love Sharon McMahon and The Preamble.

Probably not going to get a ton of mention, but the commentary magazine podcast for news. They have an hour long daily podcast that covers headlines, media, etc from people with a long career and a ton of intelligent opinions. It’s made me a It is conservative but not MAGA. If anything, I’d say if you’re a fan of what the democrats use to be, it might be for you. Think traditional, reasonable conservative.

I’m so mad at the NYT for their coverage of trans youth issues (and petit bourgeois columnists, and weird centrism/conservatism in coverage the past two elections) that I’m done for good. Not even supporting that crossword with my money. The 19th has excellent coverage on trans issues and is a clearly superior alternative for that content.

I recently started reading The Tangle for my news, when they were featured on This American Life. I feel calmer and more informed reading their daily takes, like a healthy filtration system for whatever I might see on the socials.

Re: News – AdFontes Media is a great source to determine bias in news sources, if you’d like to check that out…they have a chart! (I also love The Preamble for balanced breakdowns.)

Hi. I do read the news on NPR, etc. But I have particularly loved the email listserv Chop Wood Carry Water by Jessica Craven. During the week, she sends links & info on concrete things you can do to fight for our democracy right now. I do things as I can. The best part is the weekend email! Each weekend she sends an email with the successes of the week, the good news. Keeps me going honestly. I really recommend signing up. Especially with the big May Day protest coming soon.

I’m a senior living in the Midwest. I get my news from the Washington Post, BBC and News talk from Ireland. I also subscribe to the New Yorker.

The Intercept is a great source for news: https://theintercept.com/ I subscribe to their newsletter along with a bunch of substacks and read The Guardian, BBC, PBS news.

Agree about reading international news, like Al Jazeera for a more global perspective. Jessica Yellin’s News Not Noise is worth a look—she attempts to deliver unbiased journalism. No human will ever be unbiased, but she does a nice job of covering topics both briefly and in-depth.

I love tuning into RTE for the news…. Easier on my nervous system when delivered in an Irish accent 🍀

I listen to my local NPR station a lot (shoutout to KUT! You’re the best!) and scroll the NYT app on my way to the wordle ;) I’m curious, Joanna and team, where do YOU get your news? And how do you stay engaged enough to be writers, you know, out in the world, but still protect your small soft inner animal??

I’ve been using the Reuters app and site for a while now, and I’ve been pretty happy with it. I also listen to a short NPR podcast in the mornings for a quick rundown of the biggest headlines.

Real Clear Politics for a variety of perspectives and The Free Press.

What a lovely home tour! I stick to local news, and Al Jazeera for international news when I need to. I’ve found that my local friends from Ukraine, Middle East, and Ethiopia who regularly talk to their families offer better insight than news broadcasts. What are we up to this weekend? It’s Eastern Christian Pascha, Western Christian Easter, and we are celebrating, and remembering those around the world whose churches have been destroyed or usurped, who are persecuted by their governments, and who are still rejoicing.

The donkey/baby lamb content was everything I didn’t know I needed. I subscribe to the NYTimes, as well as the SF Chronicle. I live in SF, and like getting Bay Area news from them.

I like Phineas Ruckert (Becoming French on Substack), and also on Substack More to Hate, and Frankie de la Cretaz for the sports beat. I read The Guardian and my local newspaper, and I read the releases from my local mayor’s office. If I want opinion pieces I got to Slate. I follow road cycling on CyclingUpToDate.com. I’m trying to get my news only from print just for the sake of my equilibrium at the moment, but if I don’t have time to read, BBC has excellent news podcasts.

News sources: Democracy Now, Al Jazeera Podcasts: citations pod, upstream, rev left radio Ezra Klein is pretty disturbingly centrist and neoliberal.

As to news: don’t sleep on thehill.com . It reports Washington news with great regularity/an insider spin, and as an added bonus, it’s free. Aljazeera is also very good. I also subscribe to the Wall Street Journal. On the one hand, it’s a bit pricy, and I sometimes find the editorials enraging (I’m a professor, and a Columbia grad, and the way they’ve been covering higher ed lately is very out-of-touch with the entire conversation). But it also sometimes covers things that I wouldn’t have known about otherwise, and it gives me a way to talk to conservatives about what’s happening in the news–a really critical kind of activism right now, I think. Finally, I do everything I can to find local/insider sources relevant to whatever is going on. If I’m reading about a college campus, I go to the student newspapers and alternative news blogs if I can find them (for instance, bwog.com at Columbia). I try to find local news from all sources in my area. I go to the reddit subs for my communities. On a tangent, if I could–I’m autistic, and I’m trying to expand my friend group and having a bit of a trouble with a particular social skill. I don’t know how best to deepen friendships. I am ok at making casual social acquaintances, I think because my mother excels at it and I have learned from her over the course of my life. I also have one or two really great, deep friends. But I would like to have some more friends. I don’t know how to move a friendship from casual to sort-of-intimate without oversharing. A lot of what happens in my life is kind of scary to people. I’ve had major health scares; sometimes I need to use a talker (AAC device); I’ve had to rely on family support a lot. But right now a lot of those things are invisible, and I don’t want to scare people off by seeming like I’m interested in emotional/medical support. I already have those things covered! I guess I’m just looking for safe conversational topics that are a bit deeper than “how’s the weather/how ’bout them Avs,” but not as a deep as personal finances/health scares/etc. I don’t have kids. I have a job as a professor in a weird field. I have a dog but the dog is all I’m able to talk about sometimes. Suggestions? TY so much!

I love to seek out Bari Weiss and The Free Press for news. She is doing an amazing job with unbiased, across the board reporting. I finally became a subscriber – something I had never done and so glad I did!

NY Times, The Atlantic,Le Monde in English, Pod Save America, Pod save the World and lots of NPR to name a few. Last but not least Heather Cox Richardson.

I’ve long read The NY Times, but just started using the Ground News app, too. It’s really cool— it shows you which media outlets are reporting on any given story and helps you see blind spots and bias. I’m liberal, but wanted to get out of my news silo a little bit and find some understanding on what readers on the other end of the political spectrum are seeing. It’s illuminating!

NPR, NYT, and various podcasts.

I’m heading out to Easter brunch this morning. Not wearing a dress but my graceful tunic top is that same shade of blue. It pairs well with my blue eyes (and white hair) and I always get compliments. Also I highly recommend museum gift shops. Fifty years ago I bought a beautiful set of Audubon prints at the NY Historical Society, and they have graced several spots in two homes since then. Wishing all who celebrate a lovely Easter.

Heather Cox Richardson – Letters From an American newsletter

Kottke has been doing an excellent job of highlighting important articles and essays. ProPublica is great for in-depth investigative reporting. The Daily (NYT podcast) keeps me up-to-date helps me understand complicated news stories. But some weeks are too hard, and I need humor to get me through. Thank goodness for Last Week Tonight with John Oliver and Have I Got News for You (with Roy Wood Jr., Amber Ruffin, and Michael Ian Black), which are both available on Max.

PBS NewsHour always and forever!

I read the economist for news. It’s one of the most researched publications and they make a huge effort to give a balanced perspective though they do slant liberal. I also get a sense of the world at large as it’s a British publication. You can see how cultural shifts start on one side of the globe and have a ripple effect everywhere. At first I thought the Economist would just be about money, but because the economy really is just a reflection of what people are doing, I quickly realized I was actually learning about humanity.

For news, I’ve been sticking to The Guardian & Gothamist for local NYC news. I love NY1 but haven’t been watching as much TV. (I keep saying I’m going to get a radio because I’m super nostalgic for 1010 WINS which my parents listened to growing up. Straight to the point.)

I live in LA. During the fires all the news coverage was wildly inaccurate at best and downright untrue much of the time. The coverage of the likelihood of very high winds early in the week after the fires was hysterical in toe and just giving people in LA and elsewhere completely false information. Thank heavens we had the Watch Duty App and the clear accurate information provided by the fireman in charge of operations for the Eaton fire! I was so disgusted with NYT and CNN’s coverage-it was like reading a fairytale and bore no relation to reality. It was fear mongering to sell ads period. I really don’t know where to get accurate even handed coverage anymore! It is truly very distressing!

My main sources of news are the Washington Post, PBS News Hour, and NPR News. I also follow Politico, Katie Couric, Sharon Says So, and the Baltimore Banner. (I live near Baltimore).

My news sources: NPR, NY Times including the Daily and Ezra Klein’s podcasts. Heather Cox Richardson’s email newsletters are the only thing I read when I need to consume less news. Democracy Now.

Crain’s The Guardian BBC Bridge Detroit Outlier Media Slate NYT

Hi! I’m a long time reader of NPR and the NYT, and I also recently started following the Parnas Perspective. And I’ll add Wait Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me, the hilarious news quiz show.

NPR!!! All day every day. Also, Haben Girma is a woman who is deaf blind and wrote a book called Haben. I had the opportunity to see her speak and she’s incredible. She taught me about ableism, which put words to what I learned from my mother’s many years working with children with disabilities. My mom began working at a school for children with disabilities, and her work transitioned to supporting the children and their families as they integrated into society, and were no longer isolated, even though the school was a wonderful place. I am grateful my mom exposed me to prof all abilities and am eager to do that with my kids as well.

Love this news source question! I get my news from The Skimm (daily news summary), Breaking Points (YouTube show with a left, right, populist perspective), and NYT for push notifications, etc. Democracy Now and Sam Seder Majority Report are also great.

I’ve been a Washington Post reader since I was a staffer on Capitol Hill. I also read Environment & Energy Daily every day. Wired has been killing it with their political reporting (DOGE). NYT and The Daily podcast round it out. Since I’ve been emailing my Senators almost daily, I’m not getting their weekly newsletters. So slanted! Such spin! Sometimes they read like missives from outer space. They match their public comments NOT AT ALL (Sen. Tillis, esp.). But, I guess it’s important to read what they’re sending out to their constituents. Seriously, wow.

It’s Easter weekend for millions of Christians. That’s what we’re up to.

I love The Gaurdian for well balanced reporting around the world, and an international digital subscription is like $3 a month! I’ve been a subscriber for over 2 years now. The culture and liftestyle sections do not disappoint, either. I feel well informed on the news from a non-north-american perspective, and their recommendations for tv shows and movies have never, ever been wrong for me.

I get my news from different sources because living in an echo chamber is not going to save any of us. I glance at The Free Press, NYTimes, Wall Street Journal, CNN, Fox News, and even my local news (local issues matter too).

I’m an NPR gal, both online and radio. Love the in depth anaylsis and thoughtful reporting. When “big” news stories drop, I like to look at Fox News, Al Jazeera, BBC to see how different news orgs cover (or don’t cover) the event.

Heather Cox Richardson, BBC, Reuters, Al Jazeera & Threads.

Propublica is excellent for deep investigative journalism on important issues

My favorite part of the sleep trick is the part where someone says “it works 10 per cent” and I’m like oh good, that’s actually better odds than my normal attempts to fall asleep quickly.

Letters from an American- a Substack by Heather Cox Richardson. She is a brilliant historian and professor who relates the past to present day news, daily (after all, history repeats itself). As a person who finds it hard to metabolize the news, I cannot recommend this intelligent and bite-sized news source enough.

I subscribe to the NYT and The Guardian, but I can’t recommend Heather Cox Richardson’s Substack enough. Incredible reporting in the context of a historian. I’ve learned so much about American history since I started reading it. She’s just incredible!

PBS News Hour- it’s a good one to watch with my teens too.

No news sources, no news, just something fun and funny. Feels right, right about now. https://www.bonfire.com/very-cutesy-very-demure-barely-tolerable-1/

Thank you for the gift links – makes me look forward to each Friday edition even more. A treat!

I read way too much news lately, but I feel like to get a complete picture you have to bop around. Substacks: Heather Cox Richardson Steve Vladeck (Supreme Court coverage) Chris Geidner “Law Dork” Garbage Day (not on substack but a similar format) News sites – Politico The Hill NYT (but this is not my first choice; I’ve found the coverage to lack fidelity to details that I need) Guardian WSJ (don’t subscribe but reading the headlines tells me what the rich conservatives might be thinking) Fox News – to see what the other half of America thinks is happening. Inside Higher Ed, StatNews, and Pro Publica for specific issues affecting my industry Podcasts: Ezra Klein (agree with other commenter that it’s annoying when he hogs all the air time) The Daily If Books Could Kill (the most recent episode on Josh Hawley’s book “Manhood” was pretty eye-opening for me) 5-4 (a Supreme Court podcast) I also periodically check in on the chatter on fed Reddit. Oh and Wired! It’s probably too much but as an attorney trying to do whatever I can to advocate for health care and education in our country, you kind of have to jump on stuff fast and knowing what’s happening in other industries can be a preview of what you’re about to deal with, and what has worked and what hasn’t. I may have a bit of a problem with how much news/analysis I’m consuming, but if