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To me it always seemed that reading a good, weekly news paper would help. The lack of real time news would make it focus on broader trends and I would not be distracted with the breaking news that is not important. For a while it seemed the Economist was close. But they have breaking news, what happened today and they publish articles that appear in the weekly edition already during the week.

Is there something better out there?

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Financial Times is still pretty good. The ultimate in sound, realtime news is of course the Bloomberg terminal, but that's very expensive.

What do those and the Economist have in common? They're oriented at business users who are using the news to make decisions on, not to maintain their sense of identity, stoke their rage, or share on Facebook.

Maybe force yourself to only read the Economist in paper form?

Definitely considered that. I'm a tad nomadic, but I guess I can just change the addresses.

Do they offer an offline viewing option to subscribers?

Apple News does offline reading FWIW.

I'm a subscriber and read the Economist on my phone almost entirely - sometimes on desktop - I dropped the print subscription as it takes nearly a week to be delivered to me. I read pretty much only the weekly (which is made available late on Thursdays UK time) on the app- it's a button at the bottom of the app - and very often do so offline. I mostly ignore the articles suggested during the week.

I try doing that. But they are definitely trying to be a daily publication if not hourly by now