News organizations are low quality by default. Their bussiness model is creating multiple articles per day and make it sound interesting, sometimes more interesting than what really happened. This so they can maximize viewer retention and therefore maximize ad-revenue. It's not really a recipe where you'll find the most accurate truth.

You can still read their websites for information, but when you google, those news website tend to fill up the first 3 pages of your results and often you find better information once you get past those websites. e.g. independant journalist blog sites or scientific papers, etc...

I also like to search back in time. e.g. when you want to learn about coronavirusses, it's better to search before january 2020. Else your results get filled with articles from journalist that never even heard of corona virusses before they wrote their article.

I dont really read news anymore. But i think forbes was a decent one. I havent checked in a while though.

edit: i'd say hackernews is a good way know about things. much variety.

edit2: news is not really that important to begin with. It's just about what's happening in the world. It's not that important to know that. You rather want to fill up your brain with information about engineering, science, nature, etc. You know.. information that you can "USE". That's why it's "useful".

For me I'd just like to hear a story and any relevant details. But the news orgs usually take a small bit of information and the rest is their opinion and extrapolation without much evidence. You know because sometimes they will reach a "verdict" which is opposite what the judge and jury reach after days of reviewing all of the evidence. I've realized it's up to me to find all the info, and try my best to determine the truth, which sometimes is quite literally impossible.

Good recommendation. Scientific papers and tweets is pretty much the source of most large publications articles at this point.

Better to just search PDFs and tweets at this point than read their verbose outrage & clickbait wrappers.