Ask HN: Online news is broken, how would you fix it?
As a person who likes to follow the news, I’ve been disillusioned with the current mechanisms for reading news. Online news is still presented in a “newspaper” format, with a single frontpage, and articles arranged as if it were a newspaper.<p>I feel like there are a few problems:<p>-An individual news article usually doesn’t include enough background information for a complex story<p>-It’s hard to track a particular story over time<p>-It’s difficult to get a list of stories for topics I care about. News aggregators help but usually the categories are too broad or there’s too many of them.<p>Wikipedia (http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Portal:Current_events) probably comes closest, but tends to include only major stories.<p>Does HN agree?  Anyone know of a site or app that addresses these issues, or have any ideas for solving them?