https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events is the most neutral source of news I know. I read it every day.
this post was submitted on 09 Mar 2025
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thanks for introducing me to that list. at worst this makes for an excellent overview.
- Democracy Now!
- DW (Germany)
- France 24
- PBS / NPR
- Global News (Canada)
- propublica
- AP
- Al Jazeera
- BBC World News
- various youtubers for niche or more world / non western news and geopolitics and trade etc
- lemmy
Lemmy, Reddit, Instagram, local communities on Signal and Discord
just lemmy and reddit for me and then cross reference
The Guardian, The Tyee, BBC, CBC, Reuters and AP, with a dash of utterly unreliable press from abroad.
Nice, all that covers a lot of bases right there
The Guardian, Democracy Now, and /r/politics
democracy now! is legit a core news reporting source for many unreported and underreported stories. thumbs up for DN!
edit: add link
Ya, my personal fav, I try to at least watch the headlines, but usually dig into some of the featured interviews for the day. Amy Goodman is a legend
This sounded good and it says it reports global news, but every story on the front page is US centric?
It's definitely intended for US audiences. They do long-running features on topics like the war in Gaza, and they touch on important global events like contested elections, but its perspective is rooted in progressive US politics.
OK, partly off topic: I'm new here and in the fediverse in general.
Trying to find out what is what and where I want to be part of.
So I figure I go to Ask Lemmy, where I see your question and found it interesting.
To my surprise, since I was under the impression lemmy.ml was a real leftist place I see mostly horrible MSM sources.
Was I wrong?
lemmy.ml federates with almost all instances most of which aren't leftist, the admins are leftist as is a lot of the local userbase, but the moderation varies between communities and this one tends to be one of the more permissive ones. If you want one that's more exclusively leftist you're probably looking for Hexbear or Lemmygrad.
While what you said isn't untrue, .ml does Bill itself as a general purpose instance. Also, not all the replies are from accounts on .ml.
In a more general sense, I always felt that only reading sources that alligned with one's political alignment narrowed one's perspective.
Thanks for the info.
In a more general sense, I always felt that only reading sources that alligned with oneβs political alignment narrowed oneβs perspective.
Definitely, I'm certainly not looking for an echo chamber. It is exactly the opposite since it's very rare to find something outside the common MSM and social media narrative. Hence the dissapointment with all the news sources mentioned here.
Also the left ones I know have less 'pulp', 'trivial' -or whatever you can call it- posts and more interesting subjects not covered elsewhere. I am also constantly surprised and impressed with the knowledge the users have. They know their stuff, put effort into replies, provide sources and useful info on sometimes very specific topics or events in history. It's vastly more educational.
my less-susceptible-to-depression spouse
I listen to pods at work: NPR and DemocracyNow for my daily news, then weekly news/commentary from Labor Stoppage, Citations Needed, Some More News/Even More News, The East is a Podcast, The Deprogram, and ChapoTrapHouse.
Thank you for sharing, I'll look into these!
I usually check things in this order:
National newspaper
Local newspaper
Reuters
Lemmy
News in my mother tongue, not beneficial to English speaker people
Do you ever compare it to news outside of your region?
No
The Tyee, The Daily Show, late night w/ Seth Meyers, The Guardian, and Legal Eagle.
LE is a good one.
NPR, BBC, and RTΓ primarily. Subscribed through RSS
The classics.
Some other good ones are Semafor and 404Media
Gosh, do they still do RSS feeds? I so miss that era of the internet.
You know it. Iβve found that most of the news sites still do RSS feeds for their stuff
Mostly from Josh Johnson
Never heard of him, I'll check it out
I mostly don't follow the news; I value my mental health too much for that these days...
For any German, correctiv should be a must go to...although it's not necessarily daily news but rather weekly and investigative journalism. Politico.eu for europeans, deutschlandfunk, Tagesschau, lemmy, reddit
But as some people have hinted as well... Visiting news sites nowadays can only make you depressed really...
On my end, I tend to watch democracy now, read cbc, npr, ap, and reuters, and then follow plenty of youtube channels for different takes on a variety of subjects. Always looking for new stuff though, so I appreciate all the replies!
The Guardian for international news because they are cool with not doing a paywall anywhere. They encourage to pay only.
Die Zeit for German news.
Wyborcza to stay more or less updated with my old country.
For real time opinions I never ever go to X. Mastodon starts to be a good replacement and for something really hot thatβs also hot in Europe, my mastodon search engine (https://masto.kukei.eu/) sometimes does the job, although itβs still immature and often searches nothing due to the nature of mastodon.
Damn, that's so cool, I'm going to try this out
Cnn just because it's the easiest to type one handed.
Mostly the local Radio station. But bigger things through Mastodon.
Nice, love local radio
Belle of the fifth column even though I'm taking a break after the election
Never heard of it, I'll give it a looksee
The Globe and Mail, CBC, and the Guardian.
About ten separate sources. A little bit of right, a little bit of left, some national, some international. I find this really exposes the bias some sources put on stories, and after a while you can tell which source it is just by words used in the headline and even by what news they don't report.
Some good suggestions in this thread, I'll be adding some new feeds.
A centrist mainstream national newspaper to be aware of what the political mainstream is concerned about.
Al Jazeera for international news.
Articles sent to me by friends and comrades for news on more specific matters that may not make more mainstream news.
And groupchats and internal publications of organisations I'm in for both more politically-relevant news (eg news of local strikes that often aren't otherwise reported on) and commentary.
My feed reader; there's a couple bloggers and a singular journalist that I follow. I have a digital subscription to a national newspaper as well.
National and local newspapers, national and local news stations.
I stopped using Google News because all it did was depress me. Lemmy and podcasts now.
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