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Comment by jacek | Hacker News Reader

I would pay $10/month for a weekly digest of the most important world news without editorializing, clickbait, celebrity news. Just important stuff. Also I would not like it to be only US-centered (that could be optional though).

EDIT: Some people asked what I mean by "important". For me, important event is the event that has potential to have a high impact on the society or any large group of people in long term. Some very recent news that I found important: results of elections in Austria, terrorist attack in Somalia, grand jury indictment against Manafort, hundreds of sexual harassment allegations in USA as a whole (I don't think reporting each individual case and celebrity implicated is important).

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I have found the Economist Espresso[1] is an excellent version of this. And it's only $3 / month.

[1] http://www.economist.com/digital

Thanks for the tip. I would prefer the option to read on a bigger screen though. I hate reading on my phone.

They do allow email subscription, if it's preferable to you. http://www.economist.com/newsletters

(No affiliation, just a happy subscriber.)

Shameless plug, but check out WikiTribune [1]. It was started by Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia founder) as an attempt to democratise and wikify news. It just entered public beta, but they solicited recurring donations over summer and are still accepting them - if you believe in the project, consider signing up for a few dollars a month.

[1] https://beta.wikitribune.com/

Thanks! Looks promising, I will try it out.

I would pay a lot more for really important things - science, R&D, tech, not politics and things that get dated tomorrow. If there would be a quality magazine with HN level articles on: cutting edge tech (blockchain, quantum computing, etc), biotech (organs, prostetics, implants), brain science and broader space travel. I’d pay quite a lot for that. Not the basic news, but more like deep dives to make me interested and dig more. From what I know, haven’t found anything close to that. If you run such a media, tell me where to send money. Also open to invest.

Can you share your email or a way for me to get in touch?

If you can pay a little more, just get a subscription to The Economist

The Week (http://theweek.com/) does a fantastic job of this. They summarize the main issues of the week from the viewpoint of a variety of politically-diverse sources, and there's a lot of non-US news in there as well. I believe they've covered all the examples you mentioned in recent weeks. Well worth a try if you haven't heard of it yet.

I think the Foreign Policy morning brief is awesome. It's not US-centric, it's fairly unbiased, and the reporting is high-quality. https://imgur.com/a/ssfBU

I also subscribe to https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/ for US politics news.

none of the links on the morning brief site work, and when i actually go to the morning brief site it looks like most of the articles are from 2009. I thought for a second Swine flu had re-emerged.

Yeah sorry the particular page I linked to is from 2008 and is super broken. The actual morning brief these days looks like this: https://imgur.com/a/ssfBU

k. what's the link to that page?

It's an email, to signup go to their homepage.

The screen looks great, but I can't find the signup page.

https://foreignpolicy.com/ then "Register/Sign In" in the upper right. You only need Web Access for the morning brief, not Premium.

If you listen to the BBC World Service, they do a 5 minute news summary every few hours outlining the important news events of the day - free and worth using.

Every few hours is a bit to much. That's why I would prefer a weekly digest. I am learning German and I have started listening to daily Deutche Welle podcast [1]. It is really good and my main source of information now (even though I still don't understand much of it ;).

[1] http://www.dw.com/de/deutsch-lernen/nachrichten/s-8030

NPR and Hacker News. As a huge recovering news junkie, that's what I've slimmed down to and I think it's perfect.

You might like Eurasia Group's "Signal" - https://medium.com/signal-geopolitics-made-simple/saudi-andr...

This doesn't meet all of your criteria (in that's it's Daily and US-centered), but I've found it to be valuable for keeping up with US-politics.

https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/

No way I'm checking this out at work

It seems fairly biased politically.

You can come check out https://marketvulture.com -- we do something similar: track the drama around the world that might present interesting market opportunities.

How do you personally define 'most important'?

I suppose it is a key moment - most important for Mr. westonplatter0. So Service have to be smart enough taking into account user's prefs. AI and Deep Learning are good friends for that Service.

I would pay about $10 for that too.

not quite every day, but the live feeds are good

https://redef.com/channel/media/mix

How do you define "important"?

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