Where do you get your news from online?

[Vicsun]

I know everyone in SYM is very well informed regarding worldly events, so I thought I'd tap into that repository of knowledge by asking you people what you read online.

I've personally found arstechnica to be unparallelled when it comes to tech news, as well as maybe the only tech-site with a decent community.
For non-tech news I usually go to the International Herald Tribune or the NYTimes. I'm also very fond of The Economist, but can't really justify paying for a subscription.


While we're at it, feel free to point out horrible publications which you feel should disappear. I'd like to preemptively say that Fox News doesn't count because they are very good at what they do.. I'll go ahead and point the finger at a newspaper little known outside of Denmark: The Copenhagen Post. With short and superficial articles I don't actually know anyone who thinks they're any good, including two people that have written for them.

edit: since I've started asking about your reading habits, how about magazines? I haven't subscribed to any, and apart from The Economist which I've already mentioned, I've also been eyeing The Atlantic ever since I by chance read a couple of articles that impressed me.

[Aegis]

I tend to have stuck to the Economist lately, mostly because it gives me a more conservative slant that is well thought out, as opposed to a lot of the radical far right publications that have appeared lately. Aside from that, I receive the NYtimes in my e-mail on a daily basis, and at the very least read the headlines. Aside from that, since I no longer get the Toronto Star delivered to my house, I have been somewhat cut off from world news.

[Xandax]

Originally Posted by Vicsun

I've personally found arstechnica to be unparallelled when it comes to tech news, as well as maybe the only tech-site with a decent community.
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Cool - thanks for the link, will check it out. I can always use more tech.sites and I've been looking for a somewhat objective tech.site.

A couple of danish news sites, both tech and "real" news, cover my immideate thirst for knowlegde.
When I venture into more international news sites I usually use the BBC and CNN as starting points.
After that I usually google the events I need to know about and read a couple of sources which come up, so I don't turn to any specific source over and over - although I think the NYTimes is the american newspaper I've visited most.

I unfortunally don't follow much news actively these days, because I'm regressing more and more into a state of geek-hood due to work load.

[Luis Antonio]

Brazilian news (in portuguese):

Terra (my ISP)
Gazeta do Povo (local newspaper)
Blog do Tas (Marcelo Tas will discuss the news every day, and he's a very reliable news source)
INVERTIA - an economy news source, that I havent read for days.

International news:

BBC - Which for me is really good at telling what's happening everywhere, specially at europe.
NY Times - I receive their newsletter daily.

[dragon wench]

I read:

The NYT
The Guardian/Observer
Le Monde
Salon

Sadly... I can't think of any Canadian publications that come anywhere close to the above. The Toronto Star is decent, but still nowhere near The NYT in terms of in depth, comprehensive coverage.

[dj_venom]

For Aussie stuff, either the Courier Mail (which we have a print subscription to), or News.com.au. The Courier Mail is good for me, since it is Queensland based, while the other one is national (and both international).

[JonIrenicus]

Originally Posted by Vicsun

I've personally found arstechnica to be unparallelled when it comes to tech news, as well as maybe the only tech-site with a decent community.

Indeed. I have been going to this site for quite a few years. The only problem is some of the writers are very young and make some very boring (mind numbing/not interesting at all) and not very well informed articles. Some just talk and talk and not they take a while to get to the point. But I guess that is with all online sites. Hannibal is great writer though and I enjoy all his articles.

[C Elegans]

For world news, I use lots of sources, mainly:

BBC
the 4 main Swedish daily papers
Sky
and various European newspapers' websites like The Times, Observer, Le Monde, Die Welt or anything in a language I can read

For major world events where I think it's important with global reports, I usually add news sources from other parts of the world, like www.arab.net, CNN, NY Times, Washington Post and various Asian and African websites with news in English.

However, I spend little times gaining information about world news, compared to the time I spend with gaining scientific information and news.

Nature and Science are my main sources for news in all scientific fields since these are the only two journals for all sciences. Nature has a good website with a lot of free material, www.nature.com.
Then I of course read a lot of specialist journals like Neuron, Trends in Neuroscience, Neuropsychopharmacology, Journal of Neuroscience, Molecular Psychiatry, Brain, Biological Psychiatry, International journal of Psychopharmacology, Neuroimage, Lancet, New England Journal of Medicine, Cell, etc, etc...nothing of interest to you, but I would guess that I spend about 15-20 hours/week just to keep updated with my own field...(and people wonder why I work so much!)

I am not especially interested in technology at an applied level, but I usually follow the main discoveries and inventions which can be found in scientific journals. Nature frequently have special issues called "Insight" which offer state of the art-articles by leading scientists in specific fields, including technology. Luckily, I have good friends covering all major scientific areas plus some arts areas, so a nice and relaxing dinner with some friends often offer me the news before it is published in journals

Apart from this I don't read any other magazines. I don't even know what that would be Are there any good magazines?
I used to read National Geographic as a child, that inspired me to some of the journeys I've made.

[Chimaera182]

Pretty much just the NYT online. I get emailed it every day, but I've retreated back into my old habit of not caring about the news (for the various, obvious reasons) and it tends to pile up in my inbox. I rely more on the Onion than I do the NYT.

[Vicsun]

Originally Posted by C Elegans

Apart from this I don't read any other magazines. I don't even know what that would be Are there any good magazines?
I used to read National Geographic as a child, that inspired me to some of the journeys I've made.

There's newsmagazines like Times Magazine, which I'm sure you must have heard of, and The Economist (which, for legal reasons, calls itself a newspaper, but is printed on glossy paper so is usually referred to as a magazine), and then there are cultural and literary magazines like The Atlantic Monthly which features articles in the fields of political science, foreign affairs as well as book reviews. It served as a medium for Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson to exchange letters in which Dickinson asked Higginson to become her mentor, and has published a number of noteworthy articles such as Martin Luther King Jr.'s defense of civil disobedience in the 1960s. It also claims to have published a few articles that have inspired development of whole new technologies, the classical example being an article called As We May Think, which inspired the development of hypertext.

Embarrassingly enough, I still occasionally read National Geographic, though I do so as a means of improving my Danish - which is honestly quite atrocious - since the articles are a pretty easy read. I tried reading Nature a few years back, but found it to be over my head. Since I'm undoubtedly much much smarter now than two years ago (as you can see, I hold firmly to the notion of my ever-expanding intelligence ), I'm likely to start again since I'm currently only keeping up with scientific developments through the mainstream press and their writing is laughable.

[DesR85]

Well, for normal news online, I mostly refer to BBC World. As for latest gaming news, previews and reviews, I tend to go to Gamespot, Gamespy, Gaming Age and Game Rankings. For tech news, its Toms Hardware, Anandtech and Guru3D.

Originally Posted by Vicsun

Embarrassingly enough, I still occasionally read National Geographic..

I also read National Geographic too.

[TonyMontana1638]

General News- CNN.com

Video Game news- gamespot.com and GB

Sports news (American General and European Football)- espn.com and yahoo.com