looking for suggestions for news sources other than the USA

news sources from Canada and Mexico?
and others although my French is rusty.
Steve has a pretty good grip on Spanish.

I feel like it's getting more important to broaden my views and not have everything filtered through US news sources.

I used to love browsing the news stands in the loop in Chicago and would buy magazines and newspapers from all over the world!

Preferably something I can read without ads and videos?

https://www.cbc.ca/news
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/
https://www.bbc.com/news
https://www.nationalobserver.com/opinion
Globe and Mail (although behind a paywall)

I try to rotate while limiting doom scrolling.

I like the BBC as they cite their sources and specifically say if the information is confirmed or not.  

With the BBC it's interesting because they will often publish something that politicians don't like, then take it down 20 min later.  And then 20 min after that, they will tell the same story by putting two contrasting news articles next to each other in the front page.  Suggesting there is a lot that isn't getting published but we hope you are smart enough to put the dots together.

They also have live reporting of major events which tends to be more useful than the polished articles that come later.  


CBC in Canada is designed to have a unifying effect on the Canadian population.  One of the main tasks is to promote/create a unified Canadian culture and their news tends to reflect this view.  Very strong in the center of the political spectrum and not kind to either extreme.  


The Times of India is an interesting one.  They tend to be a bit more ... how to explain?  Educated in the classics of English tradition.  Like PG Wodehouse.  People that most people in England and English language cultures don't know anymore.  But I like the view from a culture that has a radically different history and view of things from my own.


For a lot of things, I stick to the local news - not just local to me, but the smaller news papers.  They often have interesting articles on global issues.  

I also like reading different "fact checking" articles from around the world.  Politicians say some stuff.  What data supports or fails to support the stuff.  And what motive might be possible for saying something different than what the data suggests?  


Canadian satire like This Hour has 22 Minutes is a fun one to find issues I missed.  This is closely connected to the CBC so it has that bias - but with the belief that politics is a blood sport like hockey and therefore we must make fun of it as viciously as possible.  

I like BBC for news about many places in the world. They tend to cover US/Canada well. I also read the Guardian out of the UK, and, when I can (it's not free but i can sometimes find copies) the Economist.

Al Jazeera, for the opposite bias about Middle eastern stories (reading an Al Jazeera story after reading a contentious US news story can make your head spin). They tend to cover US/Canada news fairly well but are Qatar governement owned, and i read with strong awareness of that.

In Canada, most of our news has also been bought out by American companies.

I like CBC (our public broadcaster) and Global News, which despite the name, is Canadian owned and often covers local stories. CBC radio is IMO the best out of their online, TV and radio news, and does lots of longer form stories, and posts their radio stories online, sometimes with transcripts. Radio-Canada is the french CBC and has editorial independence from the English version, so it can be entertaining to see the difference between what each one is covering.

The Narwhal covers Canadian environmental news. The Walrus covers a mix of culture, politics, environment, usually from a left wing perspective.  Maclean's is possibly paywalled and is more centre right.

Edit : Adding APTN, Aborigional Peoples Television Network. It covers news from an indigenous perspective - often critical and skeptical of the government and all parties, and yes, has online written content.

Hope that gives you a few to try!

Ah criminy and jeez Louise, now I'm agreeing with Lady Raven???  What's happening to my world under my nice rock???

Yes the BBC in the past did only read and report the news.  No taking of sides, no opinions just the news in a fair and even manner.  I don't know if that is true today, but that is where I would first check.

Peace

Our English may be slightly different to yours. . . but the reporting is usually correct, even if they wander off the original subject.
https://www.abc.net.au/news
Subjects may appear more than once under different headings, and can often be "east-coast-centric"

thank you everyone!
I'm gradually  checking out all of the suggestions.

Somehow I had forgotten about the BBC news and we used to watch and like it on PBS (public broadcasting system) back when rabbit ears would tune it in on our old tv in the 90's.

We don't have a tv or computer at all now so we are thinking small and low data on this phone....no videos and hopefully no adds flashing at us.

I like the CDC news out of Canada it seems comparable to our National Public Radio.

I'm also a big fan of the BBC, as well as the Christian Science Monitor. I have a subscription to a Famous New York Rag but lately am trying to decide whether i love the crossword enough to keep it, since the reporting makes me ill lately.
I also read about 100000 newsletters, and local (neighborhood) news, which I find a lot more useful than most anything else.

Judith Browning wrote:
We don't have a tv or computer at all now so we are thinking small and low data on this phone....no videos and hopefully no adds flashing at us.

You may find this page useful, Judith, a list of text-only news sites. Sadly, the BBC got rid of its text-only site ages ago and never replaced it. You could conceivably disable images and such in your browser if you needed to....
https://greycoder.com/a-list-of-text-only-new-sites/

edited to add....
another possibility - i listen to US radio here in Brazil via the internet, and several stations I like have BBC news at scheduled times. That may be something interesting to track down if you are a listen-to-the-radio kind of person. I also have the BBC audio app, although you do need an active post code for it.

Judith Browning wrote:

We don't have a tv or computer at all now so we are thinking small and low data on this phone....no videos and hopefully no adds flashing at us.

Try the duckduckgo browser.  Most news sites (other than the bbc) have so many flashy adds, they crash my browser.   Duckduckgo blocks most of them automatically.

Tereza,
your list of text sites is perfect for our interests...thank you!

R.
We use ' duck duck go'...seems like there are still a lot of videos and ads starting up when I open a site from there but maybe they would be worse in a google search, which I avoid.

Looking at news sites took me back in time...
This one https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_Amerikan
is a grassroots paper we helped with at it's inception.  
We ended up heading for the woods soon after but folks more active than us led it to be the longest running underground newspaper in the US.

Are you using chrome or duckduckgo browser?  The search has the same name so it's confusing.

r ranson wrote:Are you using chrome or duckduckgo browser?  The search has the same name so it's confusing.

That's the difference!
This phone has chrome as it's browser and I'm only using duckduckgo as a search engine.

I might look into that and download it iat the library.

thanks!

Libraries are great like that.

They might also have online subscription to international news sources that might be less data heavy.  The librarian will know.

RT is pretty decent. And definitely not western propaganda.
I have given up on BBC, they don't allow reports that don't align with the government policy.

I tend to check out the headlines of a number of news sites so that I can get a decent overview. In addition to those already mentioned, I also regularly check apnews, Reuters, the guardian (UK). Depending upon the issues, I’ll also check the Dutch and Belgium news, and Japanese news.

Delving into the news now drives me batty. To preserve my sanity and calm wellbeing, I can no longer be a news addict. And gone are the days of Walter Cronkite. So I generally just read headlines, and skim selected topics. By checking out multiple international news sources, I think I can weed out the purely propaganda junk. And being American myself, it’s kind of amusing and interesting to see what the rest of the world thinks about our crazy, insane country.

I am with Tereza,

BBC and Christian Science Monitor.  For the uninitiated, the Christian Science Monitor had an extremely positive reputation in the 1960s.  It was regarded as one of the top two newspapers in the USA. Don’t let the name fool you if you have not heard of it before.

John F Dean wrote:Christian Science Monitor....Don’t let the name fool you if you have not heard of it before.

I was very lucky in college to live in a residential house (originally founded by returning WWII soldiers using their GI bill benefits who let's just say didn't fit the normal college student profile) that had subscriptions to a variety of quality publications. I never EVER would have picked up this paper from the name alone, but it's got quality analysis and focuses on solutions. It is also rated as being centrist by AllSides (a handy site to figure out which news sources are spinning which way) https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/ratings

In addition to various formal news sources, I find it useful to "bubble burst" by looking at discussions on platforms that I am not personally aligned with. It can be eye opening, but needs to be approached with a serious degree of caution/skepticism. I will often get insight into an issue from reading such discussions, but then use that to start looking at what other sources say around the same issue. It's common, for example, for those supporting one side of an issue to just leave out evidence that goes against their view. If you take what they say at face value you will not only not get a full picture, you get their skewed perspective.

Michael Cox wrote:I find it useful to "bubble burst"

I like the "BlindSpot" on the right side of the https://ground.news/ screen for helping to direct me to goings on that I might not otherwise see based on my own biases.

My own three primary news sources are: NPR, BBC, and Al Jazeera if I'm not just scanning Ground News.

I prefer a 360 view of events, so I read from Left to Right (excluding the crackpot extremes of either). Every paper and every writer has a point of view; if I read a wide range of sources it's easier to understand what is solid information and what is opinion/spin/agenda.

My morning news read:
- three local papers
- Globe and Mail
- National Post
- CBC
- CTV
- BBC
- sometimes a couple of US sites, just to see their take

Bandwidth control: I use Firefox browser (does not autoplay video, you have to click). I have two extensions: Ghostery set to "block all" and DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials. This cuts out almost all of the garbage, though it breaks some site features. When I get on a system that doesn't have this, I'm shocked at the obnoxious wave of crapola. (Note that I don't use extensions on "clean" systems I use for banking or work -- that's just more attack surface for the bad guys.)

To peek behind paywalls and read only the text of online articles, search "Dirty Rotten Douglas" on this site.

thanks everyone for this extensive list of news sources.

After browsing for a few days I've limited myself and settled on 2 or 3 that are giving me the broader perspectives I was looking for....and Steve says thank you also

I read https://www.dailysceptic.org.  This grew out of Lockdown Sceptics, created in 2020, and based in the UK.

Great idea to try and get unbiased reporting
From Australia these are Independent news sources here
https://www.theguardian.com/au
https://theconversation.com/au

I recently found goodness exchange which doing a google search for 'no politics websites.' I really like it. Lots of interesting stories in numerous relevant categories, all with a positive, solution-oriented focus.