/biz/ - Business & Finance

Depends on where you live and what you want to get out of your news intake.

Neurotypical casual:
- Just change your homepage to fucking google news

If you aren't interested in digging deeper (or just don't have the time) into what's going on around you, reading the headlines and looking at the pretty pictures that google's aggregation of "content" should keep you acceptably informed.

Well-tuned & well-read:
- Your local paper
- Washington Post or New York Times (U.S.), Globe and Mail (Can.)
- VICE News
- Bloomberg

Spend an hour making the rounds with these four every day and you'll probably have a well-rounded enough picture of what's going on in the world. I tend towards the New York Times simply because they aren't as hard up for cash as WaPo and therefore don't cut as many corners on style, but content-wise there aren't too many differences that someone knowledgeable enough is able to discern. G&M is a NYT/WaPo copy for Canadians, don;t know what Brits read. VICE News (as distinct from the rest of the VICE family, which is tabloid garbage by and large) does tend toward excessive theatrics and pandering towards youth issues, but the quality of their international coverage has improved over the past year. Bloomberg simply because this is /biz/.

Complete fanatic:
- Your local paper
- WaPo/NYT (U.S.), G&M (Can.)
- VICE News
- Bloomberg
- Politico
- Al-Jazeera English, including commentary
- One of: Mother Jones (U.S.), The Walrus (Can.), or The Guardian (U.K.)
- The Economist and one of: National Review (U,S.), National Post (Can), The Spectator (U.K.)

This kind of diet is really only for people who are seeking some sort of career in politics or the media, but be content that you're most likely the biggest news junkie on your block. Basic coverage provided plus more in-depth political and international coverage from the more partisan outfits. At this stage you might just want to keep the additional outlets as a barometer (cont.)