Newspapers

On Monday The New Day, a new daily newspaper, launches with that day's issue being available for free. I'll have to rely on others' reports of that because there won't be any issues available anywhere near Perthshire. Still, I can see the appeal of a ruthless edit of the news to keep it reviewable within limited time. I used to subscribe to The Guardian Weekly which I rather liked: it includes articles from Le Monde and The Washington Post thus providing a nice summary of the international news I'm most likely to care about but, even being only weekly and not very heavy, I had trouble making time to actually sit down and get through it before the next arrived. When I have more time, for instance for a long flight, I quite like to read The Economist or The New York Times. On flights via KLM last fall I was able to snag a free copy of The International New York Times both inbound and outbound, and on Air France from Paris last summer I again got myself a Le Monde. In American hotels one is routinely provided USA Today which is quite good. Local newspapers for large cities are often decent; for instance, I liked The Boston Globe when I lived there. I usually expect little of small cities' local newspaper but here I think we are quite lucky with The Courier from Dundee's DC Thomson, it does quite a good job of reporting local news. I shall be curious to see what The New Day is like when one easily and cheaply crosses my path.

(Unfortunately BBC local radio isn't great for local news: up here we have the generic BBC Radio Scotland which is too large for anything truly local. The UK's constituent countries aren't really a granularity of reporting that I care about.)