Podcasts are really the best way at this point where you don't have to deal with the insanity social media brings, but you also don't have to read corporate stuff. If you want text based stuff I'm not sure what to tell you, although SN is pretty useful for that.

If you want to switch to podcast based news there are a couple I would recommend, although some of them are pretty US-centric bc that's just where I live. Cato Daily Podcast is great for general politics and economics stuff. Fed Watch Macro is great for Bitcoin news and macro-econ. If you are into tech I would also recommend Linux Action News. The last two are Value4Value so that you can tip them in sats, which is pretty cool.

Hopefully that's helpful, sorry if it wasn't though