What I learned from reading 20 news apps every day
I have always been impressed when hearing of people who get up early, read several different newspapers, exercise, grab breakfast and then attack the day better prepared and well-informed. Being up to date on world events and politics has always been somewhat of a goal for me. Today with free news apps, it is extremely easy to devour the news in the morning and throughout the day. In my attempt to become well-informed, and perhaps become more like people I look up to, I decided to do an experiment. I was going to download 20 different news apps, get up early and read through as many of the main stories as I could before leaving for work. My experiment started by reading news apps ranging from NPR to Flipboard (the swiping feature makes this is nice if you are on the treadmill or elliptical!) to BBC, CNN, Fox, Yahoo!, BuzzFeed, Al Jazeera etc etc. I would do a few random ones in Europe or the Middle East or the South Pacific. Some were local, some national, some internatio