How do you read the news?

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Using different techniques I am training to change the way I move around the internet (I guess digital well-being is the best-suited word for that). My last concerns are about news - how it comes to me from social media. I switched to RSS (feedly), but I'm thinking even about using printed newspapers. Do you have your ways or tools of getting and reading the news?

imadj · Accepted Answer

I find the best way is to outsource itMeaning don't block time or resources to read news. Anything that actually matters you'll learn about in social settings from friends, colleagues, etc. Then, if you're actually interested, you can do your own research on a topic-by-topic basis.Personally, I stay up-to-date through just what people are talking about online and IRL (more for local news), and from time to time, documentaries on YouTube that I find interested. Basically, outside of what people share, I don't follow any sort of media/news outlet.

nicbou · Answer

I queue things in Pocket, and read it later on my iPad. It's a lot more distraction-free than my smartphone, so iPad time is true reading time.It tends to slow down the news, and encourages me to go for long form content. This in turn tends to make me go for established content about older news.

alxmng · Answer

Have you considered a daily newsletter from a well-respected and comprehensive news publication? For example, the daily world headlines from Financial Times. It's once per day, and it's bounded. You read it and then you're done.

labarilem · Answer

I don't really have a well-defined method to do it.It's a mix of websites and news from my social circles.

is_true · Answer

I parasite in the knowledge of people close to me exposed to the news

How do you read the news?

I queue things in Pocket, and read it later on my iPad. It's a lot more distraction-free than my smartphone, so iPad time is true reading time.
It tends to slow down the news, and encourages me to go for long form content. This in turn tends to make me go for established content about older news.

Have you considered a daily newsletter from a well-respected and comprehensive news publication? For example, the daily world headlines from Financial Times. It's once per day, and it's bounded. You read it and then you're done.

I don't really have a well-defined method to do it.
It's a mix of websites and news from my social circles.

I parasite in the knowledge of people close to me exposed to the news