I’m slowly trying to degooglefy my life, and Google news is one of the first sites I check when I log in in the morning.
What news aggregators do you use? My ideal one would be able to give local news when given a location, and allow some sort of tuning of source priority (even if that’s just blocking certain sites from the aggregate).
I’m also not opposed to rolling my own, but I’m not sure how I’d start with a project like that.
As a member of the team, I thought I’d throw ‘Mojeek’ News into the mix. https://www.mojeek.com/news It’s still relatively small at present, so won’t tick all your boxes you mentioned in the post, but worth checking back in every now and then. We will gradually add more media outlets, providing a more complete collection of publishers worldwide covering all topics. And of course no tracking whatsoever - meaning no data extraction or being put into filter bubbles.