I really like 1440 news which is a news aggregation/curation service. They try to be politically unbiased, and they send you an email each morning with the news from yesterday (sort of like a print newspaper).

I also read allsides.com sometimes, which is another unbiased aggregator service.

A heavily curated blocklist for google news. I've got 220 "news" outlets removed, so that I basically just get something from about 20 remaining sources displayed.

I don't really follow individual authors or content producers for news anymore, sooner or later they all go downhill in quality.

I've started to curate my own rss feed for news (largely a mix of art, tech, and socio-economic commentary). One of the most interesting writers/artists/podcasters I recently discovered is Caitlin Johnstone, and highly recommend subbing/supporting her any chance I get.

On Lemmy there is https://fedinews.net/m/ImproveTheNews which is an interesting project from MIT. It is AI generated, which I a generally against, it is not without it's faults. It does quote multiple sources though so you can follow the sources you are interested in.

I find it a good read. There is almost no discussion though, except when it is called out for parsing something incorrectly.

Ground News is far from perfect, but it's the sweet spot for me. It shows you headlines of the same story as reported by different outlets and tells you where on the left-right spectrum the outlets sit. It also shows a spread of what percent of reports on the story are left, center, and right. My biggest issue with it is that it tends to label some centrist or unbiased outlets as left. CNN is more center-right now and AP is pretty much as unbiased as it gets, but they're both labeled left.

There's a paid tier that really narrows shit down, but I'm liking the free tier just fine. I feel informed but not inundated, aware but not overwhelmed. I launch the app usually 2-3 times per day and just spend maybe 2-3 minutes scrolling and reading each time. That's plenty for me. I do miss the comments at r/politics sometimes because people would call out shitty sources or elaborate further or engage in meaningful discussion.

Axios is very good. Very dry journalism - almost crossing into news agency territory -, very fact-based, always mentioning the different positions on the matter at hand. They do talk about politics but you can just visit the other sections. They are especially big on tech stuff

EDIT: For how to get news, I use RSS. Inoreader in particular lets you subscribe to entire sites or just specific pages. It's possibly the best piece of software I've ever tried

Heise online and their (German) magazines.