Ask HN: How do you curate and keep up with general news?

Re:Ask HN: How do you curate and keep up with general news? by MarcScott on Sunday March 01, 2015 @09:30AM (#9127124)

Old fashioned, I know, but I listen to the radio. I often have BBC Radio 4 on in the background, where I can catch the hourly news. Then there' she excellent Today program in the morning and PM in the afternoon.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you curate and keep up with general news? by danohuiginn on Sunday March 01, 2015 @10:03AM (#9127230)

I'm a big fan of the BBC World Service, which tends to have more content and less human interest compared to Radio 4. In particular 'Newshour' is the best general world news coverage I've found, and available as podcast http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/newshour

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Re:Ask HN: How do you curate and keep up with general news? by danohuiginn on Sunday March 01, 2015 @10:07AM (#9127251)

and there's Democracy Now -- it's unashamedly politically biased, but brings up important stories that don't get covered much elsewhere. The best part is the news roundup at the start -- the rest is features and interviews, which can be very good or entirely dull. http://www.democracynow.org/podcasting

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Re:Ask HN: How do you curate and keep up with general news? by gravedave on Sunday March 01, 2015 @09:36AM (#9127143)

Doesn't sound too old-fashioned to me, given the popularity of online radio. Still, I'm not sure I'd be able to focus on stuff if I had radio on all the time.

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