Ask HN: What other news sources do you use?
I've always felt pretty good about leaning on HN and Reddit for tech related news. As a SysAdmin some of the Reddit subs have been pretty decent for me in the past for getting news and opinions about AWS, RedHat, Python etc. But as I've gained more experience they seem quite repetitive and centred around people getting started and/or people getting certifications.
So where else do people look for general tech news? I'm pretty open to anything and as someone who is hoping to pivot more towards development and automation anything along those lines would be valuable.
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Boston Review: https://bostonreview.net/
Columbia Journalism Review: https://www.cjr.org/
Eurozine: https://www.eurozine.com/
Jacobin: https://www.jacobinmag.com/
London Review of Books: https://www.lrb.co.uk/
Quartz: https://qz.com/featured/
Poynter: https://www.poynter.org/
ProPublica: https://www.propublica.org/
The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/world/
The Baffler: https://thebaffler.com/
The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/international
The Hedgehog Review: https://hedgehogreview.com/
The MIT Press Reader: https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/
The New Republic: https://newrepublic.com/
The New York Review of Books: https://www.nybooks.com/
The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/
WIRED UK: https://www.wired.co.uk/
1: Barrons 2: Financial Times 3: Economist 4: Bloomberg 5: Foreign Policy 6: Foreign Affairs 7: WSJ/NY Times (switch off every now and then so essentially interchangeable, NY Times has a broader focus, WSJ is more focused on the markets and business. I get a lot of business and markets news elsewhere, so the NY Times is usually my preferred option.)
Palladium Magazine: https://palladiummag.com/
Tablet Mag: https://www.tabletmag.com/
Republik: https://www.republik.ch/ (German/Swiss)
EUObserver: https://euobserver.com/
Blätter: https://www.blaetter.de/ (German)
TheLocal: https://www.thelocal.de/ (German news in English)
Jacobin Mag: https://jacobinmag.com/
Der Standard: https://www.derstandard.de/ (German)
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As for non-HN type news, I have pretty much stopped following establishment media completely (even non political stuff) and got paid subscriptions to Glenn Greenwald, Viva Frei and Robert Barnes, Steven Crowder mug club and give support to independent creators and journalists like Jimmy Dore, Matt Taibbi, Aaron Mate, Michael Tracey, Alison Morrow, Sharyl Attkinson. Catherine Herridge & Tucker are good too - though I don’t watch them often anymore as I don’t want to support any establishment media. I have gone as far as to install ad blocker and pi-hole and share archive.is links to avoid giving them money and clicks. I support people I like with actual subscriptions by setting aside around $250 per year.
Glenn Greenwald’s Substack
https://greenwald.substack.com
Viva Frei & Robert Barnes law related Locals and YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/c/VivaFrei/videos
https://vivabarneslaw.locals.com
Alison Morrow Locals:
https://alisonmorrow.locals.com
The American Conservative:
https://www.theamericanconservative.com
Crowder:
https://www.youtube.com/c/StevenCrowder/videos
GG is a shadow of his former self. A true shame that a once intrepid reporter now only writes about cancel culture and leftists, and people are willing to throw money at him for it.
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/my-new-book-on-journalism-e...
And his reporting on cancel culture and media elitism is exactly what's needed in today's day and age.
What reporting? Bitching about a female journalist reporting about a top VC using "retard" in casual conversation on Clubhouse isn't "what's needed in today's day and age."
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