Where Podcast Discovery Could Go Next

I recently moved from Washington, D.C. to a small farming community outside of Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Over the past three months, I’ve realized that I’ve started to consume news differently.

There are fewer news outlets to choose from here, and I find myself relying on a college newspaper, The Daily Tar Heel, for my hyperlocal news. The DTH, as it’s called, is distributed throughout Chapel Hill and the surrounding community, and I often see people who are not in college reading it in the coffee shop or at the co-op.

I read The News & Observer and listen to WUNC, the local public radio station, if I’m in the car. I occasionally scan the headlines on the Times. But more often than not, I’ve found myself using the/r/worldnews and /r/news communities on Reddit as an aggregate. The site allows users to quickly scan headlines and sources, and often surfaces stories I hadn’t heard about before.