Facts only news sources

Question

I have found myself get emotionally worked up on news reporting and would highly prefer to avoid news altogether as this heavily impacts my ability to work productively. For work reasons however there is a need to stay up to date with news events.

I have looked into the Economist (which while often well researched also features a load of opinion and fear mongering), Janes (which unfortunately has reduced itself to military intelligence reports) and Stratfor.

What other potential sources of plain news (definition below) are there?

Plain News:

• Free of charge or paid
• No narration
• No opinion pieces
• No dramatization
• "Boring" facts, numbers and backgrounds

Answer 1

I would choose either

• google alerts or
• yahoo pipes

and then just set up the kind of news you are searching for via keywords and search operators. In your case you should use the minus operator a lot to rule out commentarys, yellow press etc.

Take a look at other possible operators http://www.googleguide.com/advanced_operators_reference.html

Yahoo Pipes gives you the chance to subscribe to feeds and rule out by self created rules distinct news.

Answer 2

Wikinews is surprisingly solid - the nature of the editing process means that anything that can't be absolutely defended is scrapped... Otherwise I use the BBC.

Answer 3

Some news sources put an upbeat spin on things, at least for headlines. Try http://www.happynews.com