[anongraddebt]

Perhaps I'm overly critical, but I find most paywalled journalism (let alone non-paywalled) to be low-quality. I had a subscription to The Information, and while I initially found their journalism to be high-quality, I eventually realized this perception was strongly shaped by my experience of pervasive low-quality journalism elsewhere. I cancelled my subscription because while The Information was better than pretty much anything else, it still didn't seem high-quality (more moderate-quality).

Is there anything that surpasses the quality of The Economist in this environment?*

*(not that The Economist is clearly non-relatively high-quality)

[pembrook]

Yea the information is probably the highest quality tech news out there (that publishes with volume), but I agree it often falls into regurgitating the same narratives everybody else is talking about with zero added value.

I’ve come to realize the only journalism worth paying for comes from exceptional individual writers who are allowed to write about whatever they find interesting (and have something unique to say). Ben Thompson’s Stratechery fits into this category and is often the only person writing about tech who brings unique thinking and new perspective to whatever the topic of the day is.

[bnastic]

I pay for The Times and find them quite good. I agree and disagree with their columnists in equal measure, but I see them as honest(ly trying). The Economist, on the other hand, I’ve ditched after many years. Not worth it anymore.

Tech news I don’t pay for and don’t expect I ever will (LWN excluded, I’ve been a paying member for years). Majority have no idea what they are talking about anymore and are just holding on for dear life in this ever changing landscape (like most Apple bloggers, for example).