What newspaper are you paying for these days?

I have been wondering with the total slop that is social media where to get well written and interesting news from. I am not only interested in tech or politics but other topics as well. What are your suggestions?

Substacks. I pay for Matt yglesias, Noah Smith, nate silver, basically with a good record of analysis and accuracy in economic and political topics.

9 hours agoby cm2012

I pay for my local news. I need the news local and close to be to stay around. I read it once in a while, but I think it's ridiculous when one can't even get local news.

19 hours agoby segmondy

Jacobin: https://jacobin.com/

1 day agoby robtherobber

It's all bad. The only things even remotely reliable in my experience are SEC filings and market data. Everything else is mostly made up or lies.

18 hours agoby msgodel

I sub to Apple News+. Give a good mix of papers and magazines, and a lot of long form articles are broken out and highlighted in their own features.

17 hours agoby fckgw

I get most of my news from NPR or BBC. I don't subscribe to either but I used to subscribe to Economist. It's still good but the writing style and tone is cloying.

I've been considering Financial Times to replace it.

21 hours agoby jlongr

The Onion has been doing physical newspapers this year and they are entertaining potty reads.

16 hours agoby slumberlust

what about The Economist? Is anybody subscribing it? I’m considering buying the paper subscription.

18 hours agoby fandorin

I pay the broadcast tax in Germany. The state-sponsored media covers my humble needs.

17 hours agoby nicbou

The Information for technical news. https://www.theinformation.com/about

1 day agoby marvel_boy

None.

1 day agoby khurs

WSJ, NYT, and Apple News+

23 hours agoby paulcole

None of the general news sources are worth paying for. "Gell-Mann Amnesia" applies broadly. They depict a perpetual drama. Each focuses from a different perspective, at the same dramatis personae. It's set up this way so viewers can follow, and be entertained. They know the plot threads, the characters, themes, the possible twists to watch for. This is similar to any TV series or cinematic universe. (e.g. Superheros, Tolkien-style fantasy etc)

The themes change over time, but in a gradual, controlled manner. And (nearly) all perspectives point at the latest.

Specialist news sources are sometimes high quality. For example: Quanta magazine, which articles we see frequently here. Ground news is an aggregator that tries to balance out the Left/Right bias of news outlets, but I think this misses the point.

1 day agoby the__alchemist

None. I find the quality and mostly left wing bias in the current state unacceptable. Too little neutral reporting and way too much subtle opinion making on the current thing.

1 day agoby faebi

Philadelphia Inquirer, it's owned by a foundation, not a billionaire. I mostly use it for access to daily comic strips.

Colorado Sun, it's a non-profit. I think it was started by refugees from the Rocky Mountain News, after that failed. Mostly general Colorado news, so it's fairly local in scope for these modern times.

23 hours agoby bediger4000

About a year ago I still had a few newspapers that I trusted. Reuters, National Post, CTV, financial times, etc.

Today, each one of those have fell. They each provided examples of bias exceeding my threshold. There was a shocking slip of quality in the last 2 years at all of these.

I trust none of them anymore. Journalism has fallen to their own BS.

1 day agoby incomingpain