First off, for as long as I can remember, I get all my news here. If it doesn’t get a new thread, it’s probably not worth knowing about.
That said a lot of what I might want to know about I think is getting posted in some of the mega-threads here, so I miss it.

I used to me on a mailing list from Axios. They seemed pretty informative.
I lost get updates from The Epoch Times. I do like their anti-China rhetoric, but I don’t want the news completely skewed.
OANN seems like they do okay. I haven’t read a lot of their news.

Here’s the thing, I don’t want to “watch” the news. I would prefer to read it. I don’t want a bunch of propaganda swaying the news in any political direction. I would like to just catch a little bit of what is going on in the world, without all the political shit, (I know, that’s an impossibility) or at least as little as possible.

I’m not entirely certain that I would end up keeping a subscription after a month anyways, as I end up stressed about shit I have no control over.

What are the opinions of y’all on news reporting?

I’m in the same boat..

I have a digital subscription to the Wall Street Journal because I’m interested in the business world. They seem to do a decent job of covering the major events both in the US and the world.

You can get the subscription for only $4/month for the first year…

Well, as a start, you can try The Bongino Report.

It's a news aggregator so it links to a whole bunch of other sites.

Agree w SMLSIG....WSJ is fairly comprehensive and not woke.

Also Epoch Times - fairly conservative

JB

realclearpolitics.com is the source I use.

They are an aggregator, so there is left, middle and right on the site. You get a good balance. I like that. I'm as likely to read something from The Nation, or Jacobin as I am to read something from Epoch Times, or the Wall Street Journal. It's important to know what the enemy is thinking, and an aggregator site gives you access to those articles.

Realclear is also an ecosystem of news; there's realclearworld, realcleardefense, realclearpolicy, etc., all accessible on the same site via drop down tabs.

It's not perfect; sometimes they link to things that require a subscription, but for the most part, it's the best, most comprehensive, and balanced single source I have found.

Citizen Free Press is my favorite. It’s like what Drudge used to be.

Ground news is an interesting source which offers and categorizes articles from awide variety of other news sources into left, right, center based on biases, and shows a percentage of articles from each category for a given headline.

Another source I've found shocking is Al Jazeera, but it seems to be a fair bit less biased than typical mainstream hard left-leaning sources.

For quick, dirty and current, my favorite aggregator site these days --

https://offthepress.com/

I see a lean towards ‘political’ news?

When I get up I’ll usually swing through Fox News with my web link, then ‘Daily Mail’, USA version. That’s enough to see the latest, including if Putin is warming up his nukes. I’m also a skimmer when I look, often just the headline is enough.

Now you may say neither of those are reputable? I’ll take it all with a spoon of salt. If I find something of interest, I’ll did deeper with a search on the subject.

Not everyone you meet in a given day wants to discuss the latest about where Joe Manchin stands on ‘build back broke’ or whatever.

They may be wondering how Sherri the ‘super mom’ from CA is fairing with her fake abduction. If so, I’m cover by skimming Daily Mail.

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I’m in the same boat..

I have a digital subscription to the Wall Street Journal because I’m interested in the business world. They seem to do a decent job of covering the major events both in the US and the world.

You can get the subscription for only $4/month for the first year…

I think the WSJ is one of the better sources.

I ditched CNN long ago, I ditched FNC two years ago

These are my news sources anymore:

UK Daily Mail
Zero Hedge
The Bongino Report
Daily Caller
The Post Millennial

Occasionally Newsmax TV

Out my front window.
Seriously. There's nothing I need to know on any electronic media. How my yard is doing and what the current temp is seems far more important to the impact of my life than anything else.

You've probably seen bias charts like the one below. Some don't like them, but I find this one from AllSides to be pretty accurate. I like WSJ for domestic news and BBC for international news, but I check numerous sources.

Wall street journal. Continued digital subsription after the first year. Worth every penny. Insightful commentary as well.

A weekly news magazine called The Week. It seems to cover both sides of an issue. Very expensive as they have very little advertising.

Concur with other opinions on the Wall Street Journal.

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First off, for as long as I can remember, I get all my news here. If it doesn’t get a new thread, it’s probably not worth knowing about.
That said a lot of what I might want to know about I think is getting posted in some of the mega-threads here, so I miss it.

I disagree with this: "If it doesn’t get a new thread, it’s probably not worth knowing about."

Do we need 100 Biden threads?
Does that mean nothing about Biden is worth knowing about?
Do we need 100 Covid-related threads?
Probably not... but that doesn't mean there's nothing new or interesting posted about those topics here.

As for news, I'm a bit of a junky. I used to read the Wall St. Journal every day as it was delivered to my house. Once I started reading online, I dropped the print edition. I read or peruse most of what has been mentioned previously. I also watch some cable news and listen to radio but not as much as I used to.

There are previous threads with lots of websites worth flipping through.

The difficult thing is discernment. You seem to have a good BS detector and I think Sigforum helps with that. If something is BS, it will be called out here. Looking at something from multiple angles and hearing different opinions helps you to form your own.

I prefer Investor's Business Daily for financial news but my TD Ameritrade account has more info than I can digest.

I still scan Lucianne.com daily and Conservative Treehouse. I check out Off The Press, Bongino, Liberty Daily, Citizen Freepress, Whatfinger news but just because you read it doesn't make it true.

Gannett papers are scum but I currently subscribe to Louisville Courier Journal, Indianapolis Star and Cincinnati Enquirer and use their $1 for 6 months deal for the digital edition. Just be sure to cancel before the 6 months end or it's regular price.

I scan through the news feed on my Edge browser since they often have local stories on events that the national media cover.
But, regardless of source I view any "news" source with doubt.
I find you often need to read multiple stories from multiple sources to get a true sense of any event.

I have subscribed to the WSJ for several years. I liked the print version, but finally decided I was paying a lot for the newsprint (paper) that didn’t offer too much advantage over the digital, and don’t have to retrieve that out of the snowbanks. I skim all the US and world articles every day and that keeps me pretty much up to date on major issues, but they also do a good job of digging into many stories in detail. I like their book reviews as well and have gotten many good suggestions about a wide variety of subjects.

Their opinion pieces will occasionally annoy the far right, but in general they do a good job of confirming and articulating my own views and it doesn’t hurt to be exposed to a contrary opinion on occasion.