▲ ▼ Get me the news I need, not the news I want
I'm tired of the hate mongering, cognitive bias rich, mindless advertisement fuelled News media be it on Internet or Television or Radio or even traditional Paper medium.
When I say Internet, I don't mean just the websites, but also mobile Apps with infinite scroll which has put pressure on the News Agencies to produce content at a blistering rate, resulting in low quality content without any editorial oversight or fact checking or even proofreading.
I'm tired of these News medium exploiting my FOMO, I'm convinced that 99.9% of the news I consume every day has just information I don't need, Information I will never use in my life, at least in the foreseeable future. This is after choosing the categories of interest, giving personal information about myself than I should have to the large media companies and thereby advertisers.
I'm convinced that these News media are trying make me someone they want to be, rather than give me what I need.
What does it take to get only the News I need, which will be actually useful for my life?
Current issues with the News media has been well articulated in your problem description.
Your format captures the essence of News we need, once a day delivery sounds good too, how will it be delivered? Why do you think it's not being done now?
Adding personalised career tracking to the News, nails it. Why do we need a section of irrelevant news as well?
I think a .pdf in an email would do, since it's just once per day. Think of it like single page news paper, only that it's printed just for you.
Hey Andora, I have been facing the same issue since eternity. Everyday, waking up to nonsense was mentally taxing. However, very recently, somebody texted me on LinkedIn for product feedback and I found out about this app called offbeat news from there.
I didn’t pay a heed to whatever the guys were saying first, but then gave it a shot and found it to be quite pleasant. It only shows us positive and inspiring stories from all over the world and has personalised feeds in various categories. In this way, I stay informed and don’t lose my sanity over it. I am linking the play store link here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.offbeat.today , see if this helps.
I think journalism is about truth, positive or negative emotion doesn't play a role in reporting. Although there could some who would want an app which delivers only positive news, I don't think it solves this problem of delivering a news which someone needs.
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Hi, you might like to check out https://golinxy.com (please feel free to ask any questions or give any feedback) - the point if Linxy is to create a very personalized news feed exactly like this. You can specify i) phrases and keywords, ii) news sites topic groups or just select individual news sites. Linxy then creates a chronological feed of news matching your keywords/phrases and coming from your selected news sources.
This way you will i) only see very relevant articles (based on your keywords) and ii) the articles will only come from relevant sources. When you setup the search feed, you can just bookmark the url and visit your news feed whenever you'd like.
As the search feed is specified by chosen keywords and phrases, Linxy is best suitable for professional, knowledge based topics etc.
Hey, thanks for letting me know, it feels nice to interact directly with the creator trying to solve this problem.
The website is neat, results are fast, but what is the difference between a news app with categories selected and golinxy?
I see that the Pro version promises email delivery, can you determine one most important news 'for me' from the category and deliver it in a format like mentioned by @Abishek in another comment?
Thank you for the comments. Linxy doesn't just show you general Category news. You can create a very specific search feed: i) Pick very specific phrases/keywords which define your area of expertise, AND ii) select Categories of news sources. It is this combination (keywords AND filtering news sources), which creates a 100% relevant news search. If you setup both of these inputs well, Linxy will show you very relevant news only. You also don't need to sign-up to Pro (for emails), you can just bookmark the Linxy search url and visit it periodically.
You can browse some of the example searches shown on the first page to get an idea how the inputs can be setup for different use cases for various areas of professional/knowledge topics.
I like what you've done with Linxy, although what I've mentioned in the other comment is my personal opinion/preference, I feel Linxy could use it to differentiate itself among others as even Google Alerts delivers keyword based news.