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Comment by davidw | Hacker News Reader

Financial Times is good too; similar PoV as the WSJ, but 100% less Murdoch control.

How is the US coverage from the FT? The best parts about the WSJ (and NYT) is the timely breaking news, the live-video and live-audio feeds of various proceedings (E.g. both had a live broadcast of the cabinet confirmations, along with real-time input from on-hand journalists, giving generally good insight).

I actually vastly prefer the FT website to NYT/WP/WSJ, but would very much appreciate the prompt US-centric news feeds. I know it's Euro-centric and Britain-based, so I wanted to ask.

I'm not sure it's a "breaking news" type of outfit compared to others, but they tend to be fairly thorough and there is a US section.

I actually do like a bit more Europe/World coverage.

I don't subscribe to FT, though - I barely finish The Economist each week.

FT won't be for you if you want the non-business US stuff. It covers the basics, but they're not breaking US news.

I subscribe to the Financial Times weekly and find it highly valuable. It's enough to keep me up to date, and covers a broad area of topics and regions.

I canceled my WSJ sub years ago, because I could see it going downhill after Murdoch took over.

> The Journal’s opinion pages have been a showcase for the intra-right divide over Trump, featuring Trump-sympathetic writers like Bill McGurn alongside anti-Trump columnists such as Bret Stephens. Lasswell appears to be a casualty of that divide, and his dismissal a victory for the pro-Trump faction on the editorial staff.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/02/conflic...

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