Reading the news is work. Watching it is breakfast. As of today, six of our news pages will do the reading for you.

Look for ▶ Watch as a presentation at the top of the Tribune, Foreign Press, The Spectrum, Market News, Macro News and Notes From the Underground. Click it and the page becomes a full-screen bulletin: one story at a time, big type, a ticker crawling along the bottom, and a progress rail so you know how much is left. No anchor desk, no weather and no studio banter. We checked; nobody missed them.

What each channel shows

• The Tribune is the morning show: front page, markets, macro and rates, signals and intel, with the big numbers on boards of their own. A full weekday edition runs about 14 minutes. The headlines-only cut takes about six.
• Foreign Press goes region by region through the world's newspapers, six headlines each, rotated across outlets so no single masthead hogs the camera.
• The Spectrum shows each story and then how it was framed: one outlet's headline from each band of the political spectrum, revealed left to right, followed by the blindspots and the narratives still running.
• Market News runs through all nine regional desks, from the US to China: each desk's mood (the same reading as the meters on the page) and its three leading headlines. A story that already ran on an earlier desk is skipped, so Germany shows what Europe didn't. It's rebuilt every hour.
• Macro News opens with the mood of the macro wire, then takes it theme by theme: monetary policy, geopolitics, energy, sanctions and the rest. A story the wires ran three times under three headlines plays once. Also rebuilt every hour.
• Notes From the Underground covers the day's eight strongest briefs: what happened, why it's overlooked, and a bull-and-bear "what next". It needs a login, like the page itself.

The remote control

• Narrate (M) reads each slide aloud in your browser's own voice, and the text appears sentence by sentence as it is read. It stays off until you ask, because nobody wants a surprise newsreader in an open-plan office.
• Headlines only (H) skips the longer reads, for mornings when you have time for a coffee but not for breakfast.
• Loop (L) starts over at the end and picks up a newer edition if one has landed in the meantime. It's built for the wall-mounted screen.
• F goes full screen, Space pauses, ← / → step through slides and 1–9 jump to a segment. On a phone, tap to pause and swipe to step.

While it plays, the screen stays awake. If you switch tabs, a silent show pauses and waits for you, while a narrated one keeps talking.

Why we bothered

Some mornings you would rather be told than have to read. The editions and sources are the same, so there is nothing new to trust; the news is just played instead of scrolled. Also, a screen showing the Tribune on loop is as close as a macro platform gets to owning a TV channel.

To find it, press Ctrl+K and type "presentation", or open any of the six pages and press play.