If you’re looking for a way to get your daily news fix but want to avoid scouring the internet for stories, email newsletters are what you need. They provide you with everything worth knowing each day, saves you time, and keeps you informed.
While Morning Brew is a very popular newsletter, many similar ones have popped up in recent years, and are just as good. Here are our best alternatives worth mentioning.
What Is Morning Brew?
Morning Brew provides you with all the news worth knowing in a daily newsletter. You receive an email that contains all sorts of national and international information. Topics covered range from politics, stock market rumblings, criminals cases, and natural disasters to celebrity gossip, and trivial details about the latest social media feud.
It’s a free service, and you get the email six days a week before 6 a.m. allowing you to go through the news of the day while sipping your morning coffee. Hence, the name.
Newsletters are an excellent way to learn something new, and to become a part of the Morning Brew newsletter, all you have to do is enter your email. What’s more, the service also keeps archives of news and stories passed that you can go through any time you want.
Morning Brew doesn’t only provide news, though. Apart from inform, it also entertains. It has various quizzes about history and current events, and even offers to send you information about events that match your daily plans if you share your calendar with it.
All in all, Morning Brew is a fun platform that keeps you up to date, but it’s not the only one to do that. In recent years, many more services like it have sprung about doing the same thing—apps, newsletters, websites, etc.
There are so many such services available that it’s key that you not forget to manage your newsletters and avoid getting stuck with bad ones. Leave only the good ones.
1. theSkimm
theSkimm is a weekday newsletter that lets you skim the news. It does an excellent job of keeping its recipients well-informed about news and events worldwide. It delivers the information concisely, getting straight to the point, and if the topic discussed is complex, it offers further explanation to clear it up. You get facts, and you also get snappy commentary.
All you have to do is subscribe, and you’ll get access to everything you need to know that’s happening around you. theSkimm is not free, though it does offer a free trial period. You can try it out before committing to the subscription, which costs $2.99 per month or $29.99 annually.
theSkimm also entertains on top of informing. Everything it shows you gets presented in a fun and easy to consume way. Not to mention, apart from news, headlines, and elaborations, you also get a few fun sections like the “What to Say When…” one that never fails to brighten up the experience with some lighthearted banter.
2. Need2Know
Need2Know is a free morning email that you get on weekdays. It provides the most important news you need to know (get it?) in an easily digestible way. The stories don’t get convoluted with technical jargon, as everything is clear and straightforward.
Humor is ever-present in the way stories get presented (when appropriate), and the newsletter even comes with a relevant tweet attached that’s bound to make the readers crack a smile.
Need2Know’s summaries cover various topics such as sports, politics, business, and entertainment–pretty much everything anyone might have an interest in. There’s even an “Other Shtuff” section (no, that’s not a typo) covering the more ridiculous news, like the latest viral video or meme. The best part is that it’s completely free.
3. The Daily Beast’s Cheat Sheet
You can find The Daily Beast Cheat Sheet on The Daily Beast website. It’s a Top 10 of the hottest news stories you need to know about regarding politics, business, media, and so on.
The list includes the headlines with a concise summary and usually a photo. It also provides a link to the original story, so you can visit the source and read all about it if you wish.
News included in the Cheat Sheet comes from all sorts of publications, including the most well-known ones such as Reuters, The Wall Street Journal, The Associated Press, USA Today, and more.
4. TLDR News
TLDR News is an Android app that’s completely free to download and allows you to access “News in 3 Sentences”. It takes news from all over the world and breaks them down into easily digestible, concise information you can grasp as soon as you read it.
TLDR News covers topics from every major category. The service saves you time and energy trying to research and understand a topic as it gives you the gist of it straight away. Also, after it gives you the three-sentence summary, it provides links to the original story, letting you read it if you want to get a better picture.
If you’re an iPhone user or have no room for any more apps, the TLDR News service also has several YouTube channels you can visit. They offer more general news summaries for the world or more region-focused ones on the US, UK, etc. They could be worth a glance, too.
Download: TLDR News for Android (Free)
5. NewsTab
NewsTab is a free website where you can consume all the news that matters. It spans to cover topics from every category. The platform lets you follow your favorite publishers and magazines, and you can even follow Twitter hashtags. The latter is particularly helpful when a story is unraveling, and everyone seems to be chiming in under the same hashtag.
If you want, you can also add the site’s Chrome extension to your browser, and it’s also available as an Android app.
Download: NewsTab for Android (Free)
6. Circa News
Circa News is a free Android application that helps you keep up with the news in a more interactive way. It’s a video-driven news application covering all the categories you might be interested in, and its videos are a fun spin on concise news consumption.
You sign up and select categories that are of particular interest to you. After picking, you get presented with videos you can browse through and watch that cover the topics you find interesting. And you also get related content if you want to delve deeper into a specific topic. You’re also free to comment on videos, share and bookmark them.
Circa News’ high-quality videos provide an excellent escape for when you don’t feel like reading even a single line of text but still want to stay informed.
Download: Circa News for Android (Free)
The Beauty of Catching Up on News in Minutes
Most of these platforms, apps, and newsletters help you catch up on anything important in mere minutes. You can quickly implement the tools and easily implement them as part of your daily routine.
Consuming news in such a way is the perfect way for a busy, preoccupied mind to still stay up to date without disrupting their schedule. News matters, so ensure you stay informed with everything going on around you, both nationally and internationally.