Daily News Digests?

March 5, 2012 12:47 PM

Give me your best daily news digests.

I used to love Slate's "Today's Papers" feature, and am well aware of the previous post on this topic, but after I've subscribed to many of these, was wondering if there are any others that hew closer to the intent of the Today's Papers feature in the intervening two years.

Email or daily post on a blog (that I can turn into an action using ifttt.com) would be preferred.

Currently I get The Daily Beast, The Slatest, Harper's Weekly and the Morning Brief (via Foreign Policy blog). That last one through ifttt.

Thanks in advance!

posted by po822000 to media & arts (7 answers total)

Ezra Klein—er—Wonkblog's Wonkbook is one of the first roundups I look at each day. Link to today's.
posted by General Malaise at 1:10 PM on March 5, 2012 [1 favorite]

The FT does a good one, although most of their real content is behind a paywall. Look under their tools menu for "email briefings."

If you have a couple specific interests a few tailored Google news alerts are nice (I have ones that alert me when certain places, friends, and family are mentioned on the web, although that only works with less common names).

If you're interested specifically in foreign policy the Council on Foreign Relations has email news briefs tailored to specific things.
posted by Wretch729 at 1:24 PM on March 5, 2012

Looking for general news - top stories across multiple categories. Basically, if it comes to me via email or blog posts and gives me what everyone will be talking about in five minutes (preferably with links to the larger story for me to learn more if need be), that'd be great.
posted by po822000 at 1:25 PM on March 5, 2012

I second Wonkbook. Politico's Playbook is also good, if you can stand the gossipy tone.
posted by Cash4Lead at 1:42 PM on March 5, 2012

This might not be what you are looking for, but I like Newser, which is also available as an App for your phone.
posted by wittgenstein at 2:08 PM on March 5, 2012

ArtsJournal is awesome for all things related to the arts. You can either RSS it or get a daily e-mail.
posted by mykescipark at 2:20 PM on March 5, 2012

I like the NY1 In The Papers segment(www.ny1.com/content/features/in_the_papers/).
posted by basketballandinternet at 6:41 PM on March 5, 2012