I gave up news last year. It was really hard, I instinctively and habitually checked various news sources, so it was hard to fight this back. I've also removed my Facebook news feed. Now all I consume are HN and Twitter (from which I cull anything political or current affairsy). I have a subscription to Delayed Gratification[1], and am a lot more content now than I used to be.
1: https://www.slow-journalism.com/