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Ask HN: Is there an app/site that curates news weekly

17 points by droyson ↗ HN
A little bit of backstory: Recently I read/listened to Make Time by Jake & JZ, in which they mentioned that daily news is overrated and only checking news once in a week should be sufficient. This has stuck with me.

Now I'm looking for an app/site that will curate news weekly. All the apps that I've looked into (Google news, Apple news, NewsInShorts, etc.) serve the purpose of instant news. I can check the news once a week but that means only the most recent news is served up and I need to scroll way down for older relevant articles.

Is there a site that curates news of 1 week and serves in level of relevance.

Thanks for reading and any help is appreciated

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nanna
In the UK we have The Week magazine, which does pretty much that? The idea is to subscribe to its print edition, rather than read it online.

https://www.theweek.co.uk/

droyson
Sadly I'm not in UK but thanks anyways
Sanguinaire
If you're not against "Old Media" and classical liberal ideas, I'd suggest just getting an Economist subscription.
cpach
I second this. IMHO it’s a great publication.
libertine
I used to like to watch Euronews because of that, they wrapped up stuff, and were able to deliver it pretty quickly - like you'd get a great snapshot of what was happening in the world.
kevincox
I've also been looking for something like this. I find that most news outlets are trying to maintain a high volume of stories so you get lots of uninteresting stuff (my definition is fairly strict and includes homicides, most building collapses, most severe weather and other things that I don't feel has an impact on my life) and continuously repeat stories on incredibly minor updates (for example I don't need to know about every little fluctuation in the COVID trends).

I feel like the optimal amout of news for me would be low single-digit articles a week. Ideally with both Canadian news and global news but I would be happy for something global-only if I could find it.

brudgers
The Economist in print would be my recommendation. There's a team of salty meat space professionals behind it. Not an algorithm driving clicks.

It's a case where you get what you pay for.

f0e4c2f7
I've looked for this same thing and haven't been able to find one I liked. The weekly model definitely seems missing in the market (you can certainly see the incentives at play.)

What I use instead is the current events page on Wikipedia and just scroll back the appropriate number of days.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events

bradgessler
I built a daily view of this at https://legiblenews.com/

I’ve now had a few requests for a weekly view, so I might as well build it!

What else would people want to see from this? Weekly email delivery? A mobile app that updates once weekly? Whatever it is, put it in this thread or open an issue at https://github.com/legiblenews/community/issues

f0e4c2f7
You know what I would really like is an editor. When I read it I'm the editor as I skip over all the stuff that's too verbose. Obviously that's a hard problem picking on what is or isn't newsworthy though.