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Re:Stop Reading News (2013) by mumblemumble on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @10:00AM (#28616387)
My personal rule is that I only consume news in a language I don't speak well.

It's tiring, which discourages doomscrolling and the like. It tends to be less psychologically troublesome, because reporters tend to be less melodramatic about news that doesn't directly involve members of their core audience. And, even when it's crap journalism that has absolutely no other merit, it's still good language practice.

Re:Stop Reading News (2013) by AzzieElbab on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @10:12AM (#28616513)
That is an interesting approach. Being a non native English speaker I sometimes feel that a lot of language games in news do not work on me. It feels a lot like what Scott Adams meant by “watching two different movies on the same screen”
Re:Stop Reading News (2013) by burlesona on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @10:06AM (#28616444)
That’s very interesting. Do you have any recommendations for global news coverage in languages other than English?
Re:Stop Reading News (2013) by eynsham on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @10:40AM (#28616824)
Le Monde diplomatique is not strictly a news publication but is a rather interesting read. It also has editions in Spanish.

If you can read Chinese well enough, some of the Hong Kong press is still quite vibrant and interesting: see e.g. the Hong Kong Economic Journal and Ming Pao (that’s probably about it, alas.)

There are some good public broadcasters mentioned in another reply. I’d also recommend the output of Arte (Association relative à la télévision européenne), France Culture, and France Musique.

I have occasionally listened to Radio Liban 96.2 to listen to other accents but to be honest the presenters sound like they speak perfect Parisian French to me (if not the interviewees). Some of their programmes are interesting.

Re:Stop Reading News (2013) by jgwil2 on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @10:16AM (#28616548)
Not OP but most Western European countries have a public broadcasting company that can be a good source (e.g. France 24 for French, DW for German) if you are learning one of those languages.
Re:Stop Reading News (2013) by unfunco on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @11:29AM (#28617472)
You could try BBC Pidgin if you only speak English.

https://www.bbc.com/pidgin

Re:Stop Reading News (2013) by usefulcat on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @12:07PM (#28618032)
Wow, I had no idea that existed. TIL.
Re:Stop Reading News (2013) by trizzle21 on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @10:13AM (#28616518)
I like the BBC foreign language news (particularly Spanish)
Re:Stop Reading News (2013) by iamcurious on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @01:19PM (#28619042)
Any recommendations for italian?

edit: I also asked for something international and with only titles, without images, like HN. But reading other comments, I could configure an RSS client for that. So, any news recommendations for italian?

Re:Stop Reading News (2013) by eafkuor on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @02:51PM (#28620205)
https://www.ilpost.it

In my humble opinion, the best Italian news website.

Re:Stop Reading News (2013) by saint_angels on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @02:15PM (#28619751)
recommendations in simplified Chinese/Mandarin anyone?
Re:Stop Reading News (2013) by misiti3780 on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @10:33AM (#28616727)
This is a great idea!