I automated my news discovery with one tool, and now I spend half the time finding stories
As a journalist, I've spent a lot of time refining and reworking my workflow. Discovering news and keeping up with it is just as important to me and my job as reporting and writing. For my morning routine, I have a mental list of websites to check and keep tabs on. And while the system works, it's far from ideal. Every morning I open the same set of tabs, check author pages, skim through product and open-source blogs, check changelogs, and hope that I haven't missed out on something important. It's a productive start to the day, but it is far from efficient. In fact, it's a slow, repetitive process that depends too much on me remembering what to check. Elsewhere, there are RSS readers, but as it turns out, in 2026, way too many websites have either poor or no RSS support at all.
As a journalist, I’ve spent a lot of time refining and reworking my workflow. Discovering news and keeping up with it is just as important to me and my job as reporting and writing. For my morning routine, I have a mental list of websites to check and keep tabs on. And while the system works, it’s far from ideal. Every morning I open the same set of tabs, check author pages, skim through product and open-source blogs, check changelogs, and hope that I haven’t missed out on something important. It’s a productive start to the day, but it is far from efficient. In fact, it’s a slow, repetitive process that depends too much on me remembering what to check. Elsewhere, there are RSS readers, but as it turns out, in 2026, way too many websites have either poor or no RSS support at all.
Daniel Martinez
Dallas
Dallas
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