Reset your relationship with the news: engage with it more consciously, without feeling overwhelmed.
10 minutes a day to pause, reflect, and understand how the news works.
The information environment has become overwhelming: AI-generated content, geopolitical narratives, algorithmic feeds, and constant breaking news. But most of us were never taught how to select and read the news critically.
The News Practice is a simple daily exercise: one email a day, one small exercise, about 10 minutes of your attention. 365 days of practices in journalistic thinking, exploring power, narratives, and your relationship with the news.
Why you should join The News Practice?
- You find it difficult to step away from the constant newscycle
- The news sometimes leaves you feeling sad or hopeless about the world
- You want to explore different perspectives, but don’t know where to find them
- You are lost in what sources to trust
The News Practice helps you build a healthier relationship with the news. Just as we take care of our bodies, it’s also important to take care of our minds. Through small daily practices, you learn how to pause and verify information, become more aware of algorithms, find independent reporting, and strengthen your critical thinking.
Over time, you’ll develop healthier habits of information consumption and share them with the people around you. Whether you work in media or love to stay updated by the news, this course blends in with your life seamlessly, and makes you feel lighter about the world.
The News Practice
Perspective shift
Critical thinking
Daily awareness
Why The News Practice exists
Six years ago, the concept of inclusive journalism was founded based on six characteristics (article from 2020). Since then, the information environment has changed dramatically. News fatigue and avoidance are rising, AI is reshaping journalism, content creators and reporters blend together, and power and ideology shape what you see and what you don’t. High-quality independent journalism still exists, but it has become harder to recognize in the endless stream of information. The News Practice is a simple daily exercise that helps you understand how journalism works and distinguish reporting from the constant flow of content around it. It is grounded in the updated premises of inclusive journalism: a decolonial lens, constructive approach, and well-being at the core.
The News Practice
What you receive
- A short daily email with a 10-minute exercise (read, write, or do).
- Practices that help you analyze headlines, language, sources, and narratives.
- Occasional examples from digital native media around the world.
- A different way of engaging with and understanding the news.
- Detox days to step back from the news.
A year full of critical reflections and moments of news detox for $49!
How to fit it into your day?
Before you read the news or start working on anything else, read The News Practice email and take 10 minutes to work on the exercise. Make it a daily ritual.
Find a moment in your day to read The News Practice email, during a break or in the evening after work. Do the exercise together with your partner or a roommate.
Who is this for?
The News Practice is for journalists, students, media professionals, curious news readers, and anyone who wants a healthier relationship with the news.
You don’t need prior knowledge; you just need to be curious.
A year of building a healthy news habit
Early access price: $49 – one-time payment
🗞 A year of daily news insights directly in your inbox.
💚 Guidance and inspiration by Sanne Breimer.
⏰ 30-day refund guarantee.
Start the practice today.
About Sanne
Sanne Breimer is the founder of inclusive journalism and works internationally as a trainer, researcher, and mentor in journalism and storytelling. Her work explores how journalism can become more ethical and sustainable.
Understanding the news is a skill.
And like any skill, it can be practiced.
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A daily ritual in your inbox
You will receive emails every morning at 6:00 Asia time (midnight in Europe and evening in the Americas).
Give yourself a daily moment of reflection
Practice seeing the news with curiosity and attention.
Small exercises that change how you see the world.
Step back from the endless stream of headlines.
Examples of practices
Constructive journalism
Headline fix
Most of the time, news is explained as highlighting what goes wrong in the world. It’s only one aspect of what news is. Constructive journalism practices focus on what is being done already to solve an issue, even if that response fails. It helps to generate a feeling of agency, instead of being stuck in hopelessness.
A decolonial lens
The missing voice
Journalism has evolved as a profession since the Enlightenment and colonial times, even though it existed before that time already. It implemented practices that prioritize the dominant narrative. A decolonial lens asks whose voices are missing, what the story is not covering, and how you can identify your blind spots.
Well-being
The information diet
Well-being is important for us all. Whether you work in media or read the news, it shouldn’t lead to burnout or depression. Even in how we approach the world, well-being can be centered. The News Practice is meant to help you feel lighter, and give you a perspective of the world where well-being matters.
Frequently asked questions
Do I need to work in media?
No. The exercises are for anyone interested in the news and how journalism works. If you’re a journalist or a news consumer, it doesn’t matter.
Does it take a lot of time?
It takes about 10 minutes of your day. Some emails will be a 5-minute read, others might take 12 minutes. But on average, it’s a brief moment of reflection in your day.
What if I skip a day?
No problem at all. There are days dedicated to news avoidance or media detox. But any day you skip, you can save it in your inbox and read it later.
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