Where do you get the news from?

[poesu]

I'm curious what news sources the web revival crowd generally reads.

And also if there're any independent news outlets, journalists, or bloggers I should check out. It's especially hard to find something non-corporate, covering non-US news.

I read Ars Technica and 404 Media for technology and The Intercept for politics. If you can count it news, I also watch a satirical channel SAMTIME on Youtube, focused on technology. For investigative journalism I watch Megalag's Youtube channel, he's an awesome guy.

[Noah_S]

I get science news from the youtube channel 7 days of science and the rest on the local radio station

[mrparker]

I use The Register (IT news - "El Reg" as they call themselves) and Gamers Nexus for tech, I follow people like the co-founder of Mozilla Jamie Zawinski - his website is jwz.org. Don't poke around his website's internals or anything, it will block you - his website gets attacked all the time by AI scrapers.

I also follow The Guardian and the EFF for policy and the latter for tech policy. I mostly have been browsing the small web and tech websites - been kinda avoiding politics when I can.

[Rubbereon]

I used to get them from Fark, but I stopped trying to stay up to date with the world it's not worth it.

I briefly used Stacker News for anything tech-related. You'll notice probably that I only check user-generated news aggregators to get my news from because it's more convenient and at the very least I'm not touching reddit.

The only one that's not a news aggregator is Flayrah and it is a classic news site focused on furries, the community or things that are furry-adjacent. I still use it unlike the other websites I brought up.

[Melooon]

Most mornings I spend 30ish minutes reading over the NYTimes (for global/US news), BBC (for global/UK news), RTE (for Irish news), and the Irish Examiner (for local city news), the Verge for tech and web related news.

If there's a big event going on and I want some wider perspectives I might expand that to sites like France24 and DW (for more EU news) and Aljazeera (for non-western news), or even Fox if its related to US politics and I want to know what more right leaning people are saying.

I visit each website one after the other (usually on my phone before I get up or while having breakfast), I tend to just pick one or two articles that catch my eye from each. That gives me a good dose of the general happenings in the wider world, after that morning review I try not to be involved in any news reading for the rest of the day 

[lakes]

Here's what I read from my feed reader:
Educational/Academic News:
Quanta Magazine
TheCollector
Smithsonian Magazine (RSS feed here)
NASA Science
Tech News:
Citation Needed News
EFF (Electronic Freedom Frontier)
Linux News Aggregator
OS News (OS as in operating system)
Privacy Guides
Torrent Freak (news on copyright law, piracy scandals, etc)
Ars Technica
Cyber Insider
A ton of different official blogs for software I use
Slashdot
The Verge
Mainstream Political News:
Al Jazeera
AP News
CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation)
CEPA (Center for Euporean Policy Analysis)
NPR
Reuters (RSS feed here)
The National (Scottish)
UN News
The Wired
The Atlantic
Independent Political News:
The Intercept
Status Coup News (although their youtube channel is more active)
Megaphone News (Lebanese news website, needs translator)
Anarchist News (Aggregator) (radical left news obviously)
Abolition Media (radical left)
ProPublica
Positive News
Democracy Now
CounterCurrents (radical)
Against Wage Labor (radical)
Protean Mag (radical)
Unseen Japan
Africa is a Country
Anarachist Federation (Aggregator) (radical)
Freedom News UK (radical)
People's Dispatch (radical)
Food Poisoning Bulletin
Novara Media
The Public Source (radical Lebanese news website)
Industrial Worker (radical, IWW)
Bangladesh ASF (radical)
Zapitista/EZLN Blog (radical, for the anti-imperialist movement in Chiapas, Mexico)
Historical Materialism (radical)

I also find that Peertube (a federated/p2p youtube alternative) has a lot of stuff covering what's new in tech or sometimes general current events, depending on the instance/website. But I'd look at the instance's rules 1st to get a general idea of what content is allowed.
Peertube channels I watch include:
Mondo Weiss
SubMedia
Privacy Guides
Terminal Tilt
The Linux Experiment
Niccolo Ve
Linux User Space
Arthur Pizza
Reject Convenience
Veronica Explains
RTP Tech & Privacy Tips
Jiyu
Riseup4Rojava

[arcus]

I use a whole bunch of link aggerators and Lemmy communities for news, so I'll cherry pick the lesser known ones instead:

Topic focused:

• https://assignedmedia.org/ Trans
• https://transgenderreport.com/ Trans
• https://sentientmedia.org/ Agriculture
• https://grist.org/ Climate
• https://insideclimatenews.org/ Climate
• https://www.techpolicy.press/ Tech/Surveillance
• https://phys.org/ Science

World News:

• https://breakthroughnews.org/ Global
• https://sovereignmedia.online/ Global
• https://news.antiwar.com/ Global war news
• https://www.middleeasteye.net/ Middle East
• https://www.bulatlat.com/ Philippines
• https://www.telesurenglish.net/ Latam
• https://kawsachun.com/ Latam
• https://mexicosolidarity.com/ Mexico
• http://venezuelanalysis.com Venezuela
• https://orinocotribune.com/ Venezuela
• https://www.ontheditch.com/ Ireland
• https://www.thecanary.co/ UK
• https://indiginews.com/ Canada
• https://thenarwhal.ca/category/news/ Canada
• https://blackagendareport.com/ USA
• https://www.propublica.org/ USA
• https://www.leftvoice.org/ USA
• https://therealnews.com/ USA
• https://fair.org/ USA

[BlazingCobaltX]

I have deliberately chosen to not keep up with general news daily anymore, and I only seek out information on specific topics. These days I prefer to read people's reflections on certain news events rather than the pure news report itself - it feels like I am getting some actual value out of it then. My three main reads at the moment are Tweakers (Dutch tech site), Doorbraak (Dutch leftist platform that aggregates reports and essays), and Africa is a Country (reports on Africa and reflections on global politics from an African perspective). Unfortunately I do use LinkedIn for updates related to my field of work but I fucking hate it.

Now that I'm here, does anyone know good, but niche Spanish-language sites for news + essays (so not the usual El País, RTVe, etc)? That would help with my reading comprehension.

[candycanearter07]

I mostly don't follow the news, but i follow hckr.news, an alternate frontend to hacker news, lwn, and occassionally snippits of stuff going on from the onion (DONT LAUGH, THE "what do YOU think?" ARTICLES ARE ALL REAL HEADLINES AND ITS JUST THE RESPONSES THAT ARE SILLY)

[lakes]

Now that I'm here, does anyone know good, but niche Spanish-language sites for news + essays (so not the usual El País, RTVe, etc)? That would help with my reading comprehension.

I think I mentioned this one in a previous post, but the Zapitistas (an indigeneous-led anti-capitalist movement in Chiapas, Mexico) has their own website and blog with an RSS feed. It's mainly in Spanish, but they also repost stuff translated into other languages as well.

[ABlueRose]

I use the Washington Post's the seven newsletter. I like it because I get an email every weekday that gives me seven headlines, so I get to know if something big is going on, without getting overwhelmed by tons of RSS feed notifications most news sites seem to have, in my experience.
As a bonus, it's free to get the emails, but most of the articles are locked behind a paywall. If I'm interested in something though, I can just search the general title and find the information elsewhere

[Kule1Toxic]

I don't actively keep up with the news, so whatever I see usually is whatever was trending.
I used to listen to the radio but my alarm clock is fucked so I stopped doing that.