Welcome to the 1 Radio News power ranking of the top daily news podcasts (M-F) by listeners and importance.
This list focuses on actual informative national news from the United States from different perspectives – not opinion-only, talk, interview, or analysis shows.
See our other “best of” lists of world news podcasts, hourly news headlines, or daily in-depth news analysis podcasts.
These daily audio news sources are also in our 1 Radio News app on Android. Press one button for just the latest episode. You don’t care about yesterday’s news, do you?
AM Start Your Day – Morning News Podcasts
- Up First, NPR
- Start Here, ABC
- Marketplace Morning Report, APM
- CBS News Roundup, twice daily
- CNN Five Things, updated 5 times a day
- What’s News, Wall Street Journal
- Daybreak, Bloomberg
- This Morning with Gordon Deal
- The Excerpt, USA Today, 7 days a week
- Reuters World News
- The 7, Washington Post
- Apple News Today
- VOA International Edition
- Democracy Now! (Midmorning)
- Morning Wire, Daily Wire
- Quick Start, CBN
- NewsMax Daily
- Daily Newscast, Public News Service
PM Close Your Day – Afternoon/Evening News Podcasts
- Consider This, NPR
- The Fox News Rundown
- Marketplace, APM
- The World, PRX
- ABC World News Tonight
- CBS Evening News
- NBC Nightly News
- PBS Newshour
- Inside Edition
- Top Story, NBC News
- Nightline, ABC
- Pacifica Evening News
Get Your Daily Niche News
- ESPN Daily, sports
- Tech News Briefing, Wall Street Journal
- National Native News
- Morning Brew Daily (Business)
- See the “SHORTS” section in the 1 Radio News app for our full and varied fun collection of daily short audio segments (what Amazon calls “Flash Briefings”).
Looking for more options, try our list of daily global news podcasts or hourly news sources.
Editor’s Note: The list above contains well vetted daily news sources you’ve probably never seen on a list of popular news podcasts. It represents over a decade of curating news radio podcasts for inclusion in the 1 Radio News app. Links can change, but we’ve made it easy for you to find to official “play it here” web home for the podcasts. From there you can just play the audio or subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and other major podcast player or like us, use WHATEVER podcast player you like. 🙂