2y ago

What are your favorite news sites?

Regardless of the kind of news. I'm working on a TLDR bot and I'd like it to support the most used sites on Lemmy.

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Of the big ones I prefer Reuters and APnews
- Pretty much the main two that I use as well lmao
- Support for both added, it should work when I release the bot.
The Economist, Reuters, BBC, in no particular order.
- Reuters and BBC were already done. It seems that Economist requires a subscription or at least registration? I'm afraid I can't help with that.
  
  In my experience, once you make an account they will let you read a lot of articles - even without paying.
There is a lot of washington post, NY times and the guardian articles on here. Thanks for the awesome work!
- Washington post added, Guardian was already there, NY Times requires an account and enabled JavaScript.
  
  Thanks for the response and swift action! At the risk of asking an exceedingly dumb question: would it be possible to make one for archive.org? That way we could have articles from almost any source.
I mostly visit BBC news
- I already had support for BBC! Specifically bbc.com and bbc.co.uk.
Improvethenews is a collection of all news sources and provides all sides of an argument. This is one of the best news aggregators.
https://www.improvethenews.org/
- . If this is the “best”, I weep for the worst.
  
  I for one am shocked that a site that pretty much positions itself as the lead centrists has shit takes.
  
  It's very sad indeed that this is the "best". The only thing better would probably be specific youtubers who go get news sources for themselves. But I'm not aware of many.
- I'm afraid that won't work, the autotldr bot doesn't really work with aggregators like this, it pretty much only works on articles.
- Just discovered this, good tool!
Not my most-frequented, but definitely the one I admire most:
https://www.bellingcat.com/
- My bot now supports it!
I generally get my global news from BBC world news. They're pretty professional, to the point without getting sensational. Euronews is pretty good too, with a bit more focus on European events obviously. You just have to be aware they've sold their soul to Qatar. Other than that they're unbiased too.
- Both are already supported in my bot! Didn't know the thing about Qatar, it sucks.
  
  Well, I understand they have to pay for the real journalist work. So you'll occasionally see a piece about how awesome it is to get married in Qatar! If you can see through the underhanded deals, it's not a big deal. Just don't count of them mentioning human rights issues about foreign workers' working conditions in the construction sector.
I use CBC.ca and ctvnews.ca for Canadian news.
- Support for both added to my bot!
Take a look at the Media Bias Chart (adfontesmedia.com) and you can find the top quality news sources.
i mostly use bruh.news for everyday news, but it doesnt have the political articles like the Trustworthy Times
- No cookies gives a Rick roll instead of showing the site for bruh.news. No thanks.
  
  If you accept cookies it will also show you rick roll
not a website but a news aggregator app created by Instagram founders "Artifact"
- out of curiosity: do you feel compelled to move over to open-source, non-algorithmic based news aggregation?
  
  sounds interesting to me, I would definitely give it a try. artifact is not open source and it's AI powered. It seems to do a better job than a lot of news aggregators I tried before
https://www.axios.com/ seems refreshing
- Sadly triggers captcha, won't work for my bot.
NBC, CBS, BBC, Axios, Reuters, and APNews. I ditched CNN a while ago. Just as long as they're not conservative, and I carefully look at whether they're corporate or not and make my take based on that.
- Most of those were already supported by the bot, I added CBS and sadly I couldn't make Axios work with the bot.
- Added it to my bot!
Roca news
Grauniad definitely
- googled it to see if it was some new site, lol it's the Guardian.
  
  It's an old joke, Guardian was known for insane amount of typos
SCMP for local news, The Verge for tech stuff, and The Guardian for world news.
Block Club Chicago
I was a founding donor back when they got started.
- I added support for that site to my bot!
  
  Enjoy your Chicago hyperlocal reporting!
For Spanish news eldiario.es and elsaltodiario.com
For Andalusian news lavozdelsur.es
HackerNews. I get my world news and stuff from Lemmy or whatever. Only really care about the big stuff since too much news just stress me out.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/
https://arstechnica.com/
- Both added!
- Lol I don't see how you were downvoted, the globe is probably the best Canadian news source and Ars is the best science / tech source.
I use The Guardian primarily and ABC Australia.
- Added ABC Australia!
Lemmy has un-ironically becomed my world news feed of preference.
Grist and Vox are my favorites, personally.
https://www.newsminimalist.com/ and https://www.readtangle.com/
Economist
- Requires an account, so I can't make it work with the bot.
Different views: www.other-news.info actualidad.rt.com www.rt.com
- Kremlin propaganda is not news.
  
  And the others (AP, AFP, BBC, etc) are not propaganda?
  Everybody ought to read, watch and listen all sides and THINK and take his/her position.
  Something that www.others-news.info does very well, they post all sides. Mainly those articles hidden by the Big ones.
- “What will Putin do? We don’t think that far,” the official said. “Our national strategy is that Zelensky can do whatever he wants to do. There’s no adult supervision.”
  I don't think this really counts as news, I won't be adding support for the sites to my bot.
  
  Ok, It is your bot...
  
  It is your bot, your time and your effort, it is yo to you.

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