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Reading list.

Open source trending, finance and markets, news in English and French — 35 sources, 4 of them starred.

01

Open source and GitHub trending

Free
GitHub Trending github.com/trending

The daily ranking by newly gained stars, filterable by language and by time window.

Free
Trendshift trendshift.io

Catches a repository while it is on the way up, rather than once it has already reached the top.

Free
OSS Insight ossinsight.io

GitHub’s public event stream turned into analysis: contributors, geographic distribution, growth curves.

Free
Star History star-history.com

Plots the star curve of any repository, to tell real growth from a launch-day spike.

Free
GitStar Ranking gitstar-ranking.com

A ranking by total stars, for repositories, users and organizations alike.

Free
Best of JS bestofjs.org

The JavaScript ecosystem ranked by monthly star growth, curated by hand rather than purely automatically.

Free
Project Awesome project-awesome.org

An index of the various awesome-* lists.

Free
Hacker News news.ycombinator.com

Not a ranking, but the things above usually turn up here first.

02

Finance and markets

Paid
Bloomberg www.bloomberg.com

The mainstay source for market coverage.

Freemium
Reuters Business www.reuters.com/business

Business coverage at wire-service speed.

Paid
Financial Times www.ft.com

A European vantage point, detailed on policy and on infrastructure finance.

Paid
The Economist www.economist.com

A weekly; what it gives you is an argument rather than a bulletin.

Free
Yahoo Finance finance.yahoo.com

Free quotes, earnings and screeners.

Freemium
TradingView www.tradingview.com

A charting tool, and also where a great deal of market discussion happens.

Free
Investing.com www.investing.com

Broad coverage across instruments, with an economic calendar.

Free Starred by Miao
FRED fred.stlouisfed.org

The official US and international economic series maintained by the St. Louis Fed, there to plot and to download; the first-hand source behind most macro charts.

Freemium
财新 www.caixin.com

A Chinese-language outlet that does investigative reporting rather than only relaying it.

Free
东方财富 www.eastmoney.com

A-share data, filings and screening tools.

03

News in English

Free
BBC News www.bbc.com/news

A public broadcaster, with the widest international coverage.

Freemium
Reuters www.reuters.com

A wire service, the closest thing to a first-hand source.

Free
AP News apnews.com

Another wire service: short, sourced, and without a position.

Free
The Guardian www.theguardian.com/international

Open to read, and solid on long-form reporting.

Free
NPR www.npr.org

American public radio; the audio suits listening practice.

Free
Al Jazeera English www.aljazeera.com

A newsroom with a non-Western vantage point, worth reading as a counterpoint.

04

News in French

Paid Starred by Miao
Le Monde www.lemonde.fr

The French newspaper of record.

Paid
Le Figaro www.lefigaro.fr

Another mainstream daily, taking a different position; read the two against each other.

Paid
Libération www.liberation.fr

A third position, and a sharper pen.

Paid
Les Échos www.lesechos.fr

The French daily for business and markets.

Free
France 24 www.france24.com/fr

Public international broadcasting; the wording is clear, which suits listening practice.

Free Starred by Miao
RFI www.rfi.fr/fr

Public radio; its Journal en français facile is the standard material for graded listening.

Free
franceinfo www.francetvinfo.fr

Public rolling news.

Free
AFP www.afp.com/fr

The French wire service, a first-hand source.

Paid Starred by Miao
Courrier International www.courrierinternational.com

Translates reporting from around the world into French — the most efficient single entry on this list.