1 yr. ago • 97%

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

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- Support for both added, it should work when I release the bot.
  
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- Pretty much the main two that I use as well lmao
  
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The Economist, Reuters, BBC, in no particular order.

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- 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.
  
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  In my experience, once you make an account they will let you read a lot of articles - even without paying.
  
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There is a lot of washington post, NY times and the guardian articles on here. Thanks for the awesome work!

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- Washington post added, Guardian was already there, NY Times requires an account and enabled JavaScript.
  
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  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.
  
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I mostly visit BBC news

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- I already had support for BBC! Specifically bbc.com and bbc.co.uk.
  
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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.

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- Both are already supported in my bot! Didn't know the thing about Qatar, it sucks.
  
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  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.
  
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Not my most-frequented, but definitely the one I admire most:

https://www.bellingcat.com/

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- My bot now supports it!
  
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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/

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- . If this is the “best”, I weep for the worst.
  
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  I for one am shocked that a site that pretty much positions itself as the lead centrists has shit takes.
  
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  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.
  
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- 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.
  
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- Just discovered this, good tool!
  
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I use CBC.ca and ctvnews.ca for Canadian news.

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- Support for both added to my bot!
  
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Take a look at the Media Bias Chart (adfontesmedia.com) and you can find the top quality news sources.

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i mostly use bruh.news for everyday news, but it doesnt have the political articles like the Trustworthy Times

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- No cookies gives a Rick roll instead of showing the site for bruh.news. No thanks.
  
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  If you accept cookies it will also show you rick roll
  
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not a website but a news aggregator app created by Instagram founders "Artifact"

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- out of curiosity: do you feel compelled to move over to open-source, non-algorithmic based news aggregation?
  
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  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
  
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https://www.axios.com/ seems refreshing

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- Sadly triggers captcha, won't work for my bot.
  
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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.

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- Most of those were already supported by the bot, I added CBS and sadly I couldn't make Axios work with the bot.
  
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Grauniad definitely

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- googled it to see if it was some new site, lol it's the Guardian.
  
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  It's an old joke, Guardian was known for insane amount of typos
  
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DW out of Germany is top notch

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- Added it to my bot!
  
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Roca news

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SCMP for local news, The Verge for tech stuff, and The Guardian for world news.

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Block Club Chicago

I was a founding donor back when they got started.

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- I added support for that site to my bot!
  
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  Enjoy your Chicago hyperlocal reporting!
  
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For Spanish news eldiario.es and elsaltodiario.com

For Andalusian news lavozdelsur.es

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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.

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Grist and Vox are my favorites, personally.

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https://www.newsminimalist.com/ and https://www.readtangle.com/

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https://www.theglobeandmail.com/

https://arstechnica.com/

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- 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.
  
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- Both added!
  
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I use The Guardian primarily and ABC Australia.

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- Added ABC Australia!
  
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Lemmy has un-ironically becomed my world news feed of preference.

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Economist

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- Requires an account, so I can't make it work with the bot.
  
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Different views: www.other-news.info actualidad.rt.com www.rt.com

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- Kremlin propaganda is not news.
  
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  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.
  
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- “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.
  
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  Ok, It is your bot...
  
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  It is your bot, your time and your effort, it is yo to you.
  
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