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News Sources

Updated on 2024-12-26.

This is my current list of news sources.

World news

• The Economist Paid. Global news that cover the economy, politics, sports and culture.
• Washington Post Freemium. I read most headlines, and usually deep dive on USA society topics.
• Reuters for Apple TV. Up-to-date news in video format. The app auto-generates your choice of 10min, 15min or 30min of news. I love it, watch it about once per day when at home.

Technology

• Dithering podcast Paid. Daily 15 min commentary on Tech, by Ben Thompson and John Gruber. I don’t miss a show.
• Stratechery Paid. Daily analysis of important Tech news with a strategy and business angle. Written by Ben Thompson. Articles are interesting, carefully written and feature non-trivial commentary on economic, legal and political issues. I read every single email in full.
• This Week In Startups. Daily short news on what’s going on in Tech.
• Daring Fireball: The Talk Show podcast Weekly podcast by John Gruber, the creator of Markdown and a long-time Apple commentator. I listen to about 50% of the episodes, mostly on long trips.
• ATP podcast Fun, weekly podcast that covers tech, Apple and programming. I listen to about 25% of the episodes, mostly on long trips.

Comics

• The Perry Bible Fellowship (x). Acid.
• XKCD (X). One of the original internet comics, nerdy and scientific humor.
• Tom Gauld (X). Pretty, scientific, tasteful.
• War and Peas). Edgy, nerdy, provocative.
• Strange Planet: “Images that cause laughter”.

Full list of comic creators I follow here.

Portugal

• Governo Sombra Commentary on Portuguese and World news. It’s a great form of commentary. The 3 participants (+1 host) focus a lot on who said what and how; less than the actual content, like economic or social news; but in doing that, they expose very good points. I hear the podcast only, and never miss a single show.
• Extremamente Desagradável Humor and commentary on Portuguese news. I’ll listen to about 10% of them.