Could I find a summary of the news in the last N days

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I&rsquo;m becoming disinterested in using major news services as the writing is abysmal and the titles are too clickbaity. I&rsquo;m wondering if there&rsquo;s not a way anybody knows of where I can get a summary of news events from the past month at the end of the month.

PaulHoule · Accepted Answer

I have a paper subscription to The Economist which is a weekly but I think is very high quality.I have been thinking about the problems of news curation lately and particularly about how Google News is only possible because it is able to recognize clusters of related stories. I mean, anything that gets in the New York Times get parroted by 300 other newspapers in 24 hours, and if you didn't fight this the news feed would be spammed by hundreds of copies of the same article. So generating a good news feed requires identifying relevant clusters and then selecting the best articles about other clusters.I always thought Google had something specialized to the news problem and that in particular was built with the temporal structure of the problem in mind but I went looking in the literature and didn't see anything on use of temporal structure in news filtering.I am working on something now that is going to use conventional clustering algorithms for text (maybe based dimensional reduction on B.O.W., maybe based on one of these new-fangled neural vectors) and seeing if there is some easy way to adapt it to the temporal setting. Running a monthly batch job would make it closer to the conventional clustering case than the continuous "process a set of RSS feeds" approach I was thinking about.

throwaway365435 · Answer

Not exactly what you're asking for but I've found wikipedia pages like this to avoid the "marketing" problem of news.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events/December...
If anyone knows how I could get this emailed at the end of the day/week/month I would be very interested as well

simne · Answer

Yes, this is not bad business niche, so existing news companies, usually have some sort of paid service exactly for this.Unfortunately, these services are not advertised much, but usually, they could being found in lists of products of top information companies.

Could I find a summary of the news in the last N days

I’m becoming disinterested in using major news services as the writing is abysmal and the titles are too clickbaity. I’m wondering if there’s not a way anybody knows of where I can get a summary of news events from the past month at the end of the month.

Not exactly what you're asking for but I've found wikipedia pages like this to avoid the "marketing" problem of news.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events/December...
If anyone knows how I could get this emailed at the end of the day/week/month I would be very interested as well

Yes, this is not bad business niche, so existing news companies, usually have some sort of paid service exactly for this.
Unfortunately, these services are not advertised much, but usually, they could being found in lists of products of top information companies.

Could I find a summary of the news in the last N days

I’m becoming disinterested in using major news services as the writing is abysmal and the titles are too clickbaity. I’m wondering if there’s not a way anybody knows of where I can get a summary of news events from the past month at the end of the month.

Not exactly what you're asking for but I've found wikipedia pages like this to avoid the "marketing" problem of news.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events/December...If anyone knows how I could get this emailed at the end of the day/week/month I would be very interested as well

Yes, this is not bad business niche, so existing news companies, usually have some sort of paid service exactly for this.Unfortunately, these services are not advertised much, but usually, they could being found in lists of products of top information companies.

Not exactly what you're asking for but I've found wikipedia pages like this to avoid the "marketing" problem of news.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events/December...
If anyone knows how I could get this emailed at the end of the day/week/month I would be very interested as well

Yes, this is not bad business niche, so existing news companies, usually have some sort of paid service exactly for this.
Unfortunately, these services are not advertised much, but usually, they could being found in lists of products of top information companies.