On the team building the worlds alternative search engine - Mojeek.
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.
Could certainly do with its own Lemmy forum.