You can go to A website, or you can load up all the main stories from all the websites you normally visit.
News, when I use it, shows me new articles from Tidbits, Daring Fireball, Six Colors, MacStories, iMore, Slate, The Verge, Vulture, The Wirecutter, Vox and several others.
But, I still cannot convince it that I do not want to see news from Fox, NYTimes, CNN, CBS, etc. Not now, not ever. Which is why I use it far less than I would otherwise. My choices on a story I don’t want to see (For examples, today’s “Why British women wear ridiculous hats at weddings” are “love, share, save” and not “never show me anything like this again.” And there is no way for me to see only the things I asked to see without it being intermingled with the crap the app thinks I want to see.
Right now on “For you” there are zero stories from sources I “follow”, and only one article I might possibly read if it wasn’t on Bloomberg. It is littered with links to Time, People, Billboard, CBS, Bloomberg, CNBC, and Cult of Mac (which I do not follow). There is not a single link to any site I listed above.
No wait, 4 or 5 screens down there was a Vulture link and if I get down to “Technology” there is ONE link to the Verge mixed in among my many links to sites I don’t follow.
Last time I looked at it it seemed better, but today it is more than 90% links that I would take the time to click “Never show stories like this” or “never show this source” if that were an option.
So, if Apple News did what it said it does, it would be great. Gathering all YOUR news rom YOUR sites. But it is not. It gathers all THE news from all the “real” news sites (but mostly the terrible ones) and shoves it at you regardless of your preferences.
Not a single NPR story. Not a single BBC story. But those are both sources I follow (but that seems to be meaningless), so why show those.