Next gen news app – Ground News Review

I have used a variety of news aggregators over the years with increasing frustration so I was so happy to discover Ground News. When it seems like everyone else want to degrade the UX so they can push nor clickbait Ground seems to be marching towards an actually useful app for getting informed about the world. Ground provided a much larger number of sources that the big competitor apps and I regularly get exposed to international news that I never see elsewhere. But what I am most excited about is this new set of features they are calling Ground News Pro. I got to test the pre-launch version and I can attest that there is nothing else like it on the market. The Pro features include a bunch of filters for seeing the political and geographic bias of a news source as well as date of publication. Note I said news source. As a news junkie I currently scan a number of outlet to get a overall feel for the coverage of a story. Ground aggregates coverage and the uses these filters to let you see the biases of the news source before I start reading. It gives me sort of a fake new vaccination. On the occasion there is really polarized coverage of story...like only left or right leaning publications covered the story...then I know to take the overall story with more skepticism. The app is not without flaws. I am still trying to tie the topics so I get the coverage I want and I have been requesting the addition of more topics that I care about. I also prefer to have a list view on the main feeds without photos which I hope they add at some point. So I recommend giving Ground News a try. I feels like the path out of the big tech dominated news echo chamber.
Review by Tiickle on Ground News.