Rolf Dobelli [0] wrote a few columns on Avoiding News Consumption and will publish a book later this year with the title Stop Reading the News: How to cope with the information overload and think more clearly.

In 2011 he wrote an essay Quit the News in Dutch NRC Next newspaper[1]. The next day the withdrawals poured in :-)

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolf_Dobelli#Avoid_News_Cons...

[1] https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2011/09/01/weg-met-het-nieuws-1203...