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Note. Please don't ruin this with a "your source is so biased" thing. We've done that a zillion times already.

I'm always interested in how people hear about news.

One way I've found useful is email newsletters. It's pretty straightforward - sites take in all the news of the day and condense it down to a summary of things they think you need to know. It's the exact same thing we do with the Footballguys Email Update for NFL News.

For regular news, what sources do you guys like?

I do a few. (And some of these are referral links as I'm interested in how sites do these too)

NY Times Daily Briefing 

Morning Brew.  Basically general news.

USA Today. Just what you think.

The Hustle.co. More business oriented. 

Daily Skimm. More casual. Seems often geared more towards women 

Are there newsletters you like? 

 
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Twitter and this place, mostly. I've configured my Twitter feed to be pretty broad-based. 

I've signed up for newsletters before but I never read them more than a week before unsubscribing. They just become yet another email in an endless sea of crap.

I do think, though, part of this is because of the immediacy and 24 hour nature of Twitter. I like checking in throughout the day and seeing things as they happen. I think newsletters appeal to those who don't/can't do that, or are of a certain age where they read the paper at breakfast and watched the evening news. There were set-aside times for news consumption and the immersion into "needing to know NOW" never really happened.

 
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My phone feeds news stories.  I see what people here are talking about.  If there is a particular topic that is interesting, I use search engines to dig deeper.  On rare/special occasions for a huge breaking story, I may turn on TV news and browse different coverages.

 
Fwiw I do enjoy getting the FBG newsletters.

Someone asked me this question a few days ago and I was like uhhh... here? I don't have an account but largely twitter (multiple) & all twitter does is deliver to NYT, Wapo, WSJ an other MSM updates. I also get the paper delivered.

If I had my preference I'd still buy my NYT or WSJ and just sit down and read it over coffee but the powers that be don't seem interested in allowing the public to do that anymore. 

 
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Sinn Fein said:
Why would they lie about that?

The forum is/can be a good source for breaking news, and even links to in-depth articles.
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I didn't say they were lying. I asked if they were serious. 

 
I get daily emails from both NYT and WaPo (and FBGs) - it is rare that I read any of them.

To get a sense of news as it is happening, I have a twitter feed with a variety of reporters who cover lots of different topics.  From there, if something piques my interest, I will follow a link.

I'll also peruse the front page of web sites of NYT, WaPo, BBC, and Memeorandum to see if there are any interesting stories.

 
Subscription to the Washington Post (both dead tree edition and online) is my main source.

During the day, mostly Twitter. I follow some reporters who will post links to the interesting articles of the day, and news sources that I trust.

 
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squistion said:
Twitter.

:scared:
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:)  For the Twitter folks, can you talk about specifically how you do it?

Do you have a list of news sources you check compared to your entire feed? Other things?

Twitter is such a huge resource these days. It seems like it needs much more description than just saying "twitter". 

 
YouTube. I mainly go through Jimmy Dore and The Young Turks. Sometimes I'll graze on over to Kyle Kulinski. Also, Twitter of course.

 
Joe Bryant said:
For people that say they get their news from the political forum, you're not serious are you?
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How could they be? I think that was meant tongue in cheek.

 
Joe Bryant said:
:)  For the Twitter folks, can you talk about specifically how you do it?

Do you have a list of news sources you check compared to your entire feed? Other things?

Twitter is such a huge resource these days. It seems like it needs much more description than just saying "twitter". 
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Twitter can a  great resource if used correctly.  Most people that I know who use Twitter though only go to feeds that they always agree with and tells them what they already believe, they never get a different viewpoint on anything.

 
Joe Bryant said:
:)  For the Twitter folks, can you talk about specifically how you do it?

Do you have a list of news sources you check compared to your entire feed? Other things?

Twitter is such a huge resource these days. It seems like it needs much more description than just saying "twitter". 
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I have received so much blowback and negativity on this forum for posting news related tweets that I was afraid to even say the word Twitter, let alone go into a detailed explanation.

I get most of the breaking news by looking at the trending topics on Twitter which always link to articles and or video clips.

For political news I have people that I follow like Kyle Griffin of MSNBC and Daniel Dale of CNN that supplement the free MSNBC audio live feed that I listen to most of the day. https://tunein.com/radio/MSNBC-s297990/?_branch_match_id=512342455836400028

 
NPR, BBC and Reuters feeds are my primary source of news.  There are times I will hear of things here first, but then go look it up on those sources.

 
Da Guru said:
How could they be? I think that was meant tongue in cheek.
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Not joking.  If there is a big story, someone posts about it either here or on FFA.   I am not all that interested in the day to day noise of the daily news cycle.  If someone important dies, or there is some mass shooting, or some big disaster, or the market crashes....people here talk about it.  Now it can be interesting to see how people here spin it and look for all the facts elsewhere.  

 
jon_mx said:
Not joking.  If there is a big story, someone posts about it either here or on FFA.   I am not all that interested in the day to day noise of the daily news cycle.  If someone important dies, or there is some mass shooting, or some big disaster, or the market crashes....people here talk about it.  Now it can be interesting to see how people here spin it and look for all the facts elsewhere.  
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I get it,  I was just talking about how the story evolves on forums.  It always takes on a life of it`s own really fast and gets away from the main story.

 
I just make stuff up... and try and piss off that Joe Bryant guy.  I have a FBG insider who pays me 20$ for each day I'm suspended without getting perma-banned.

Its outpacing wheat-pennies for over a decade now.

 
Yahoo home page first thing when I turn on the computer followed by a glance at foxnews and CNN to see if something big has pushed the usual bs off the the top then lastly I come here and do a once over on the topics in this forum and the ffa.

 
I guess CNN.com but wish I could find a non-biased source.  I'll have to check some of these out that you all have mentioned.

 
Reddit's /r/news and /r/worldnews and /r/politics (but that's basically just a Bernie rally), DrudgeReport (to get a glimpse of the "other side"). I don't bother with newsletters or visiting individual news sites very often.

 
Feedly.

Once you set it up it's a stream of articles aggregated in one place.

I read maybe 5% of them but the stuff shown to me is only what I might want to read.

 
mcintyre1 said:
Reddit's /r/news and /r/worldnews and /r/politics (but that's basically just a Bernie rally), DrudgeReport (to get a glimpse of the "other side"). I don't bother with newsletters or visiting individual news sites very often.
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/politics really has kind of gone off the rails lately.

 
Google News mostly. If you view the 'View Full Coverage' section on any story you can get a pretty diverse listing of news orgs covering whatever topic it is.

 
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/politics really has kind of gone off the rails lately.
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eh, it's been a pretty single minded place since 2015-2016 really. Always been very pro-Bernie, and there's basically zero room for conservative voices outside of comments (which even then, usually get downvoted into oblivion). That's the downside of a vote-based visibility scheme when the pool of voters/users isn't really a representation of a full cross section of society.

 
I have a twitter list made up of 33 journalists/activists/organizations I respect.  People like to bag on twitter/reddit but they can actually be very good news aggregates.  

 
Joe Bryant said:
:)  For the Twitter folks, can you talk about specifically how you do it?

Do you have a list of news sources you check compared to your entire feed? Other things?

Twitter is such a huge resource these days. It seems like it needs much more description than just saying "twitter". 
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I just have a list of trusted news sources and their twitter feeds.  I also follow journalists, reporters and other "influencers" but take their information with much less importance, more more than others.

 
To be honest, I don't think I've ever read an email newsletter, period.  I don't even read the ones that our work sends out, even if I'm the one writing the article.  Seems kinda antiquated this day and age.

 
dutch said:
Yahoo home page first thing when I turn on the computer followed by a glance at foxnews and CNN to see if something big has pushed the usual bs off the the top then lastly I come here and do a once over on the topics in this forum and the ffa.
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I used to do that, Google News is SO much better.  They aggregate from a lot of news sources.  Most of them have actual journalistic standards.

 
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McBokonon said:
Twitter and this place, mostly. I've configured my Twitter feed to be pretty broad-based. 

I've signed up for newsletters before but I never read them more than a week before unsubscribing. They just become yet another email in an endless sea of crap.

I do think, though, part of this is because of the immediacy and 24 hour nature of Twitter. I like checking in throughout the day and seeing things as they happen. I think newsletters appeal to those who don't/can't do that, or are of a certain age where they read the paper at breakfast and watched the evening news. There were set-aside times for news consumption and the immersion into "needing to know NOW" never really happened.
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what kinds of things do you really NEED to know NOW?

 
NickyHatton said:
Google News mostly. If you view the 'View Full Coverage' section on any story you can get a pretty diverse listing of news orgs covering whatever topic it is.
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This is another that I'll dabble in on occasion.  Just have to be aware of the sources they are propagating.  

 
mcintyre1 said:
Reddit's /r/news and /r/worldnews and /r/politics (but that's basically just a Bernie rally), DrudgeReport (to get a glimpse of the "other side"). I don't bother with newsletters or visiting individual news sites very often.
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This explains a lot. The entire Reddit site has been taken over by Bernie. I find it hilarious that when Trump did it 4 years ago, everyone was correct in thinking outside influences were at work. If you even mention that anything is fishy about the constant Bernie posting, you get killed. How many times do I have to see that stupid Bernie picture of him protesting and getting arrested?

 
Joe Bryant said:
:)  For the Twitter folks, can you talk about specifically how you do it?

Do you have a list of news sources you check compared to your entire feed? Other things?
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It's easy to passively follow several different sources of news from different viewpoints. Reuters, CNN, BBC, AP, NYT, etc.
Twitter seems much more immediate than other social media to me. Saves me from having to search or check news feeds, just scroll. 

 
NPR, Bloomberg, and Vox are my big 3. PBS News Hour is my favorite TV news source but I don't watch much TV in general. 

 
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