Recently I set up a “Jazz” feed in Apple News. Checking in on it tonight, here’s the score:

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8 Articles

1 About Covid

3 About the Utah Jazz Basketball team

1 About movie soundtracks

1 About R&B

2 Articles about jazz music.

Ugh.

Without thinking too much about it, I’ve switched over to Apple News as nearly my exclusive source for news over the past six months. The iOS 10 Apple News re-design works for me. As a frequent user of the iPad and iPhone I like the way Apple News fits into my workflow. It gives me notifications, but not nearly as many as other news sources. Likewise, when I’m in the lock screen, the Apple News widget gives me just what I need and no more.

Apple News does a good job of finding news interesting to me. However, at the same time I still get important news from other sources. Apple News doesn’t isolate me in my own little self-created bubble. I like that.

One of my favorite things about Apple News is that it is self contained. I can spend 20 minutes in the app and get a pretty good idea what’s going on in the world without falling into the news rabbit-hole, spending 3 hours reading and getting nothing else done.

Talking to some friends, it appears I’m not alone in coming around to Apple News. If you haven’t tried Apple News lately, you should.