Where do you get your news

Curious as to where everyone else gets their news from? Both for work and play

For me it is BBC in the super early morning before work, then Bloomberg from when I'm in the office from 8ish. Love Vice for day to day stuff as well.

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I have a bunch of sites that I read in conjunction with each other to figure out what's going on:

  • BBC UK
  • Reuters
  • WSJ
  • The Economist
  • Bloomberg
  • FT
  • Slashdot.org (tech / security focused)
  • BleepingComputer (also tech / security)
  • SCMP

There are more but these are mostly what I keep up with. It's fun to read the same article on a few of the sites to uncover differences in how things are reported around the world. I used to read some Chinese blogs as well but since I was last in China a lot of them have been shut down in a somewhat mysterious way...

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In order from wake up to sleep: -Local TV news. (you've got to know the weather, the rest is rather worthless) -The Daily (NYT) on the way into work. This used to be preceded by DAYB but I can't figure out a way to listen without an anywhere subscription, and they pared me back to a shared terminal. -Bloomberg when I get into work. -The Virtu (Knight/KCG) ETF morning note. this precedes Bloomberg if it is out before I get in. -Ignites, FundFire etc. Various FT industry newsletters.

There are generally some other items during the work-day but they are less consistent.

The only difference between Asset Management and Investment Research is assets. I generally see somebody I know on TV on Bloomberg/CNBC etc. once or twice a week. This sounds cool, until I remind myself that I see somebody I know on ESPN five days a week.
 

BBC Africa, ZH, The Economist (its trash), Foreign Affairs (selectively, lot of trash), Finviz news (mainly Reuters, nothing from NYTrash, CNN, Marketwatch), Bloomberg Markets.

Anything mainstream is mind cancer and worthless

RT is great news, pound for pound.

 

Read through WSJ's Markets and Deals section each morning.

I also subscribe to Matt Levine's Money Stuff on Bloomberg.

 
 
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Surprised nobody has said Morning Brew so I’ll give it a plug. It’s light, digestible, and lets me know what’s going on at a high level so I can go dig deeper into the stuff that interests me.

Some of the Axios newsletters are good too.

Other than that.. NYT, Economist, WSJ

 

Drudge Youtube (Shapiro, Schiff, etc) Fox WSJ Occasional Zero Hedge

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Local news and alphabet soup cable stations at home most weekday mornings.

For work, I like the various StreetAccount news feeds that I've set up - StreetAccount is a Factset product. I skim through them on the way into work. One is the overnight summary and lets me see quickly who is issuing earnings, what macroeconomic releases are getting published, discussions of the markets, etc - helps me anticipate certain requests that will likely come in that day. Another of the SA feeds is Politics of the Market, which gives you a little digest of what the administration is doing in regards to things like NAFTA talks and such - each feed has hyperlinks to full articles when the teaser paragraph isn't enough 411. I also get newsletters that I skim through from Pitchbook, ActivistInsight and TheDeal that are specific to activism, shareholder situations, as well as M&A. I also use Alpha-Sense and set up newsletters for topics like cryptocurrencies, bitcoin, AI and social media.

During the workday, I generally keep WSJ, FT and NYT online versions open for requests as well as to read when there's the occasional lull.

For non-business and for shits n' giggles, I'll usually check out Daily Beast and Juanita Jean's [blog written by a funny and witty Texan who writes about local and national politics]. To stay on top of tech, I like The Verge and Gizmodo.

By the end of the workday, I really don't want to read anything on a screen anymore, news or otherwise, so if I don't have a book with me, I usually listen to pod casts, like The Joe Rogan Experience or Star Talk or surf TED or stream a lecture from The Great Courses or listen to a few episodes of Welcome to Night Vale, the only fictional podcast I listen to. It plays out like "The X-Files" are real and you're listening to their local town community radio - always good for a laugh or two... all hail the glow cloud! :)

 

Axios is the best news source I've come across that is purely factual, non-partisan, and concise.

"I don't know how to explain to you that you should care about other people."
 

Haven't heard of it, what sort of bias/slant does it have?

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Up First by NPR! I listen to like 14 hours of podcasts a day, so everything else is peripheral.

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Honestly, this sounds retarded, but sign up for twitter and start following all the usual sources you can think of and just keep looking around until you get around 100 different sources. I am telling you I am a huge proponent of sourcing interesting reads, news stories and things you'd never think about using it.

Also, Josh Brown's blog The Reformed Broker, normally posts a good compendium of morning reads as well and I find his commentary hilarious.

 

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Frank Sinatra - "Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy."
 

John Mauldin's weekly newsletters - always an interesting read, important at the time and easy/quick read, he does one himself (Thoughts from the frontline) and then another one where he cherry picks one or several small articles (Outside the box). There's a third one - Things that make you hmm... by someone else, it's a bit too long for me, but I've never had regret going through that one as well.

 

Reuters Fin Times WSJ/Bloomberg Economist Politico Intercept Handelsblatt Saudi Gazette Daily China AFP RT ZH BBC The Hill Axios

Scrapped CNN, WaPo and recently NYT as they dynamited the bridges with intellectual integrity.

Never discuss with idiots, first they drag you at their level, then they beat you with experience.
 

while I agree to a certain extent, compared to the Fox News, Breitbart, Huffpo's of the world, CNN and the NYT are far less biased. I wouldn't call it minimal, perhaps moderate partisan bias. I think we also need to distinguish between being biased and completely ignoring/ throwing out facts in favor of your pre-conceived conclusion. CNN/ NYT does this far less (or not at all) compared to some of the sources on the extremes. I personally read Bloomberg, the atlantic, vox, wsj, the nyt, and the economist.

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Where do you get most of your stuff?

Not all have the objectivity that you possess in reading and analyzing news.

Most read things like a textbook and believe every single word!

All these agencies are not independent and therefore are pushing some social agenda.

 

Foreign Affairs, economist, zero hedge, national affairs, Bloomberg capital markets, BBC for africa/me news, Reuters for general news, but have to find direct sources to research and verify, FRED for unadulterated data.

You need to use what's between your ears to analyze the information and make a decision. All the mainstream news is really garbage and superficial.

 
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You need to use what's between your ears to analyze the information and make a decision. All the mainstream news is really garbage and superficial.

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To be painfully honest, I'm fucking tired of reading the news
Tired of the passivity. the helplessness, the repetition.

It's time I start making news. You'll head about it soon enough.

 

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