Over the years I've seen a few articles written by local journalists about my industry or sometimes my organization, and they've always been inaccurate or incomplete, not telling the whole story, counterpoints, details, etc. Sometimes it may have been to stir controversy, drama, get clicks, or to weave a storyline of their choosing. I've learned to read news stories, especially negative or critique pieces, with a critical eye and understanding that there's likely a counterpoint, extra detail or explanation that hasn't been shared.
Same about my field. They all write these "articles" with the stuck up tone of a know it all, yet the most basic facts of what actually transpired are missing or wrong. Even articles that make an effort to understand my field, take exhaustive measures to explain things correctly, culminate with an oversimplified suggested solution that lacks any real practical application (or is limited in scope) because they ignore the very same real world considerations they painstakingly detailed earlier in the article, clearly just to enhance their qualifications to oversimplify later.
Now multiply this by everything.
Journalists/Reporters are not experts in most things. Sure you have some that specialize in a niche (i.e. somebody on space.com writing about rocket launches for 30 years) but by and large the person who writes a story is not an expert and so they will get things wrong or just gloss over them.
News is just another form of entertainment to be consumed. Virtually all television news is little more than reality TV. Local news is always going to focus on murders and other bad things because that's what gets attention. National news is generally just noise. When you have to fill 24 hours a day, or a whole newspaper, or whatever the medium is the emphasis is on quantity over quality. That Pulitizer prize winning investigative series takes months or years of hard work and in the end will probably generate about the same ad dollars as a half-dozen articles on the "latest update" on whatever the story of the day is. How many tens of thousands of articles have probably been written about the soccer team stuck in the cave in Thailand? Yet the end of a 20-year war between Ethiopia and Eritrea and the possible end to the war between Sudan and South Sudan are almost unheard of and these have resulted in thousands killed and hundreds of thousands displaced.
When you step back and look at the trends over a few weeks or months you quickly see how much of the "news" is just meaningless drivel that is solely written to make a buck off advertising.
I browse the headlines on Google News but rarely click on any of the articles. I do find some good long form articles through
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/ (one of the sites affiliated with Real Clear Politics). I recently subscribed to Geopolitical Futures
https://geopoliticalfutures.com/ which provides a couple of articles a day focused on geopolitics. Very well researched and in-depth with no political bias (though mostly written from a US viewpoint). They look a lot at trends over months and years which is refreshing. It puts a lot of the day to day mainstream news stories in focus, i.e. Putin making some anti-US statement for domestic consumption because he's trying to implement unpopular pension reforms and draw attention away from that.