We live in an era of information overload, and many people struggle to keep up with the news. Gone are the days of flipping on morning cable news as you dress for work and start your day, especially for young urbanites (many of whom don’t even have cable TV). Instead, we use our smartphones to get our daily headlines in a handy fashion while we’re getting ready, grabbing coffee, or en route to work. Here are seven digital tools, from email newsletters to iPhone apps, that will help you make sense of the world’s latest happenings in a digestible format.
Founded in 1919 as the Illustrated Daily News, by Joseph Medill Patterson and owned by the Tribune Company of Chicago, the New York Daily News was the first successful tabloid newspaper in the United States. The News attracted readers with sensational coverage of crime and scandal, lurid photographs, and cartoons and other entertainment features. It devoted much attention to photography and was an early user of the Associated Press wirephoto service. Its headquarters, the historic art deco Daily News Building designed by John Mead Howells and Raymond Hood, straddled the railroad tracks leading into Pennsylvania Station. It is now known as Manhattan West and houses the headquarters of the Associated Press. In 1948, the News created WPIX-TV, a television station that eventually became part of CBS, and WFAN radio, which continues to be broadcast out of the former News building.
The Yale Daily News is the nation’s oldest college daily newspaper and serves Yale and its surrounding community in New Haven, Connecticut. Its award-winning writers and columnists cover national and local news, New York City exclusives, politics, the Yankees, Mets, Giants, Jets and more. In addition, the News publishes special issues throughout the year focusing on Yale’s indigenous, black, Latino and Asian American communities in collaboration with campus cultural centers and student groups.
More than a million people subscribe to The Week’s twice-daily news digests in print and on their phone or tablet. These concise updates distill the best of the day’s news into easy-to-understand, relatable summaries that also include key quote callouts, video clips, relevant maps, Wikipedia excerpts and tweets. And, each day, the News editors select a hilarious relevant meme to tack onto the end of each news digest. The result is the antidote to news overload – all the important information you need in one place. It’s a great way to make sense of what’s really going on in the world today.