News Overload: How Do I Process Information Effectively?

The author canceled all daily newspaper subscriptions, keeping only a cooperatively-owned weekly and a French magazine. He finds that more and more online news sites have paywalls, ads, and intrusive scripts, leading him to abandon online news reading. He reflects on the changing attention economy and questions current payment models, finding per-article payments or multiple subscriptions too expensive and impractical. He considers subscribing to the Swiss digital newspaper Republik to support media diversity but struggles to process the vast amount of information effectively. The article concludes with a question about how to process news, reflecting the common dilemma of information overload.