teletext for me provides the most informative news per byte. For the Dutch 'teletekst' I use nostt on the terminal (or with geektool on the mac desktop).

https://github.com/sjmulder/nostt https://github.com/zevv/termtekst https://twitter.com/Teletekst https://nos.nl/teletekst#101

Listening to the radio news once a day works as well (5 minutes or so). I would like to have a podcast feed for that!