## Some Answers

There are more of us who want this, even if it's a relatively smaller group of people. Since a couple of years I am exploring answers to this problem. Let me summarise what I found so far and what I am using myself. Maybe others who care about this have other set of tidbits and we might help each other there.

### Slow journalism

One interesting direction here is "slow journalism" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_journalism). One of really good sources in this realm is the Dutch outlet De Correspondent (https://decorrespondent.nl/). They however recently cancelled their English edition, so it might be difficult to read for non-Dutch speakers.

Another source in this arena I occasionally check is The Conversation (https://theconversation.com/).

One frustration I have with this department of news is the long form. Typically their stories matter, but I have a great aversion to long form and the only way I can consume it is via text-to-speech conversion and listening to it while comuting. I.e., not optimal.

This is effectively investigative journalism on subjects which (probably) matter in very long run.

### Curated traditional news

One interesting group of world news like this are outlets like Courier International (https://www.courrierinternational.com/). It's in French, but a very useful printed magazine which publishes reprints and summaries of selected important stories from major newspapers and weekly magazines from all around the world. Very useful, though again, not so much for non-French speakers. I would be interested to know about more such.

Another interesting on-line source for European news is VoxEurop (https://www.voxeurop.eu/). These are translations of major news (often local) from all around Europe into other EU languages. It's a volunteer-ran effort, extremely valuable.

Somewhat similar to that, but geared towards culture news is Eurozine (https://www.eurozine.com/).

The value of this kind of news is the selection. They give you only what really matters globally. Besides Courier International, I would be interested in other magazines like this.

### Open source intelligence & foreign policy expertise

This is interesting area of reporting (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_intelligence). If you are interested in world and foreign affairs with a tilt towards geopolitics, there are several interesting sources here:

- Stratfor (https://stratfor.com/) and (https://geopoliticalfutures.com/) - both started by George Friedman, Stratfor with a bit of a checkered past. Both expensive, but both their business models provide some free articles. I consider most of their analyses very useful, relevant and to the point.
- Foreign Policy (https://foreignpolicy.com/): *the* source of foreign policy news.

All these sources are high quality, authoritative, but expensive. Not for average folk.

### Newsletters, newsfilters and summaries

Over the last few years I discovered that perhaps the best way to get brief summaries and analyses of stuff which really matters are newsletters of selected mainstream media. Depending on the area of interest, different outlets might serve you, but I am sure there are plenty in this category which I did not meet yet and would be really to the point:

- Axios (https://www.axios.com/) and especially their newsletters (https://www.axios.com/newsletters) are a pure gold. They invented and use the concept of "Smart Brevity". Check out their newsletters, it just works. Very short, to the point, context. Good.
- Euractiv (https://www.euractiv.com/): their newsletters are wjhat you need on anything related to European Union and member countries.
- I also speak Slovak and Czech, in this realm DennikN is an important daily newspaper (https://dennikn.sk/ and https://denikn.cz/) and in both countries they provide a newsletter called Newsfilter. The concept is an evening summary of only important stuff which happened put in broader context of currently evolving stories (both faster and slower) together with brief analyses. Absolutely great concept, I wish more newspapers around the world provided this.

### Wikipedia

Last but not least news source is Wikipedia. Perhaps surprisingly present in my list, but totally useful. Most people don't know, but Wikipedia provides Current Events portal(s): https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events I think this is a perfect source of breadcrumbs-style news, bits and pieces placed in larger context of unfolding stories. It's especially useful to check on latest status of e.g., slowly unfolding wars, conflicts around the world, or the pandemic.

@olamina