I have done the opposite: I'm reading much more than before. But instead of reading only one mainstream news outlet, I'm now subscribed to a variety of quality RSS feeds. These include news, blogs, Hacker News, startup stuff, financial. Across these I get around 400 headlines per day which I skim, and read about 5% of the most interesting. This gives me a great overview what is going on and I can go in depth on the interesting parts.

I'm using selfoss as feed reader. News sources I can recommend:

  - Financial Times (you can select the categories that interest you and build a feed from them)
  - Economist
  - Techcrunch
  - The Register
  German:
  - Faz
  - Handelsblatt