How do you get your news?

Jeff Sherman
2 min readJun 6, 2023

With information, reporting, and content everywhere and available at any time from everyone, “the news” is an ever-complex and constantly changing beast.

I’ve worked in and around media for most of my career, and recently thought to myself — where do I get my news?

So, here it goes. Use as you will.

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Joshua Rawson-Harris

Daily

To begin, daily I start with my curated Twitter feed and old-school interactions with people on other platforms like LinkedIn and Threads — these are great sources to find out what’s happening now and what people I’m connected to care about.

Next, I look at and read the following:

Wall Street Journal
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
New York Times
Bloomberg
Milwaukee Business Journal
620 WTMJ

Newsletters

Increasingly, newsletters are an important media go-to for me. I love the following:

Semafor Business
Semafor Media
DigiDay
StackedMarketer

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Video/TV

The Circus
Real Time with Bill Maher
Real Sports with Bryant Gumble
60 Minutes

Podcasts

NPR’s Planet Money
Pivot
On with Kara Swisher
Experience Milwaukee

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Check regularly, but not daily

Local:

Urban Milwaukee
BizTimes
Milwaukee Record
As Goes Wisconsin
TechEd Podcast
Milwaukee Magazine

National:

Washington Post
The Athletic
The Atlantic
CBS Sunday Morning

Of course, there are other podcasts in my feed, including The Town, which — even though I’m not a big Hollywood news guy, I really enjoy and learn from.

Finally, Post and Artifact have made — especially in the past few months — news consumption way easier. I highly recommend both.

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Jeff Sherman

I read, share and help. Media. Milwaukee. Marquette. More. Community. Connections. Creativity.