Here's a good discussion on why you should vary your news sources along with some charts to show how sources vary and specific examples given. Maybe you can find what you're looking for in there.
this post was submitted on 11 Jan 2021
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My main news sources are primarily NY Times, npr and a local city paper.
It's not a particularly varied list but I reached a point during the pandemic where I just couldn't handle the firehose of low effort journalism doom and gloom anymore. Opted to choose a couple of quality, relatively neutral sources and cut out the reddit feed. Npr is left leaning in their content and nytimes feels slightly left leaning on their journalism pieces, but based on the political op-ed writeups on the front page that I rarely read it looks right leaning
Initially I paid for a nytimes subscription until I found that I could get a library card from a sort of nearby large city in my state through a statewide reciprocal library card program, at which point I found that better funded library offers a free subscription to the nytimes to any cardholder, so that's how I get access now. I find their higher quality of journalism to be like a breath of fresh air after getting hot boxed every day from the low effort shit that reddit fed us
BBC for international news, CBC for national news and Nature for science news. That gets me the basic discussion, I have to go to niche communities devoted to a specific issue if I want the real story about things.