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If you where to move your news reading to once weekly, what news sources would you use to catch up on anything useful you might have missed in that time? traditional online news outlets are too fast paced for this purpose I think, very high signal to noise.

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It is quite hard if want to have a weekly overview of what happened in the world, besides some traditional weekly print titles with online versions. Daily is much easier and still much better than real time.

I stopped reading "news" at around 2011, from being a news junkie before. Including news about tech, music, movies, books, etc.

Now I have the general mentality that either:

- If something is really important enough for me to care, it will reach me eventually in some way or the other.

- There is absolutely no reason to immediately start reading up after events like terror attacks, air plane crashes etc. For the first days it is pretty much pure speculation and hearsay. If I'm interested what happened, I will take a mental note to read up about it two weeks later when actual information starts becoming available.

So basically I don't keep myself updated on general news anymore. I investigate specific topics.

Ironically I changed my habits, while working at a big news site, which was part of the reason for doing so.

I decided a while back to shift my "news" consumption to reading print journals -- I have 2 or 3 quarterlies that I go pick up at Barnes and Noble. It keeps me up to date on current affairs, but provides well thought out commentary that "up to the minute" journalism lacks. At least well thought out enough to merit putting on real paper.

New York Times Sunday edition? The paper version is $5/week delivered.

Or NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday: https://www.npr.org/programs/weekend-edition-sunday/ Available in most radio markets or online.

In the UK we have a magazine called The Week [1]. Crucially for me it pulls in excerpts and opinions from all matter of sources (regardless of political leanings) and allows me to easily digest the big events in a single 45 minute session on a Saturday morning. It truly has changed my consumption of news to a wonderful experience. [1] - http://www.theweek.co.uk/ Edit: Turns out there is a US equivalent. https://theweek.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events

Yes! I stopped following daily news because the stories were just so low quality due to the news cycle.

I started subscribing to "slower" news media like Time Magazine, which gives me the important highlights but only after they've had some time to develop. The content quality is much higher.

The Economist.

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