What I didn’t get from my readers were good (English language) news sources that could give me a feel for goings on across the pond that go beyond raw data.
I want to push back on the “English language” requirement a little bit. Even five years ago Google Translate was good enough to translate German news articles well. The in-page translation, if you’re willing to use Chrome, still seems fine; I tried it out on www.tagesschau.de and while it clearly wasn’t written by a native English speaker it’s perfectly readable.
They don’t do very much investigative journalism, mostly they just report on things that happen publicly.
Their articles tend to be pretty short, without a lot of storytelling or background detail.
If you want to efficiently survey what German people are hearing about it seems like a good choice.
If you want something more like a normal American newspaper, consider Der Spiegel: https://www.spiegel.de. I rarely visit them as their website does not run well for me, but they still have an independent fact-checking department.
I want to push back on the “English language” requirement a little bit. Even five years ago Google Translate was good enough to translate German news articles well. The in-page translation, if you’re willing to use Chrome, still seems fine; I tried it out on www.tagesschau.de and while it clearly wasn’t written by a native English speaker it’s perfectly readable.
Agreed that if translate is good enough I can take it. Is that a good source?
Yes, within its limits:
They don’t do very much investigative journalism, mostly they just report on things that happen publicly.
Their articles tend to be pretty short, without a lot of storytelling or background detail.
If you want to efficiently survey what German people are hearing about it seems like a good choice.
If you want something more like a normal American newspaper, consider Der Spiegel: https://www.spiegel.de. I rarely visit them as their website does not run well for me, but they still have an independent fact-checking department.