I subscribe to the Washington Post because it's my local paper. It's also reasonably good. The Baltimore Sun used to be good but is now a pale shadow of its former self. I also subscribe to the NY Times because it's a way to support The Daily, a podcast I listen to every morning. It also has Rukmini Callimachi and David Sanger on staff, and I like to think I'm doing my bit to keep them both employed and doing the good work they do.
Free online news sources I aggregate via the Feedly rss aggregator. These include Christian Science Monitor (really, it's a great source of unbiased news and you can just ignore the occasional religious piece) Columbia Journalism Review -- for news about the news Five Thirty Eight -- for their daily Significant Digits summary
I used to get the Reuters and AP feeds, but concluded that I wasn't seeing anything in them that I hadn't already seen in either the Post or the Times. That said, they're good as a list of headlines to scan just to see what your local paper decided not to print.
The Google news feed is decent once you've tweaked it. If I'm traveling it's a great way to see news at a glance.
For more in-depth stuff, take a look at Medium.com. Lots of high quality articles there for a pretty reasonable monthly fee. I also like Lawfare.com for its coverage of legal and foreign policy matters. The site is free and you can support it by purchasing swag from their online shop. They're good people doing good work.
For weather news I use the Weatherunderground.com. It's owned by the Weather Channel now, but it's still better in my opinion. Whatever you do, avoid AccuWeather. They're charlatans.
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Free online news sources I aggregate via the Feedly rss aggregator. These include
Christian Science Monitor (really, it's a great source of unbiased news and you can just ignore the occasional religious piece)
Columbia Journalism Review -- for news about the news
Five Thirty Eight -- for their daily Significant Digits summary
I used to get the Reuters and AP feeds, but concluded that I wasn't seeing anything in them that I hadn't already seen in either the Post or the Times. That said, they're good as a list of headlines to scan just to see what your local paper decided not to print.
The Google news feed is decent once you've tweaked it. If I'm traveling it's a great way to see news at a glance.
For more in-depth stuff, take a look at Medium.com. Lots of high quality articles there for a pretty reasonable monthly fee. I also like Lawfare.com for its coverage of legal and foreign policy matters. The site is free and you can support it by purchasing swag from their online shop. They're good people doing good work.
For weather news I use the Weatherunderground.com. It's owned by the Weather Channel now, but it's still better in my opinion. Whatever you do, avoid AccuWeather. They're charlatans.