Good Media
This needs to start with a philosophy. You need to decide if you want this to consume your life or not. And if you are uncertain on this question, let me tell you, unless it is in the service of a project, or a significant career choice, it has the potential to siphon too much of your attention, across a vast stream of discrete events that will evaporate rather than culminate in a project. It pays, instead, to be project oriented, or to have a system. What follows below should not be taken as a suggestion that you follow everything.
What follows here is a list that is more broad than I recommend for any single person. And if there is a philosophy here, it is that you should have some "cover your bases" media, some special interest/special purpose, and something long form.
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All The Newspapers In Existence
- Not even trying on this one. This Wikipedia list seems good enough.
Covering All Your Bases
- NYT
- NPR
- Vox
Investigative/Journalistic
- ProPublica
- Intercept
- Type
Commentary/The Great Debates
- Jacobin
Tech Niches
- TorrentFreak
Politics + Culture
- New Yorker
- New Republic
- The Atlantic
- Vanity Fair
- Mother Jones
- Grist
Literary
Modern Farmer
Poets and Writers
https://www.pw.org/
https://www.writermag.com/
Orgs
https://publicintegrity.org/
https://www.cbpp.org/
Sciency
https://nautil.us/
https://www.quantamagazine.org/
https://www.nplusonemag.com/
Aeon
Anthropocene
Curators
Longform.org
Longreads.com
Awards and Lists
Pulitzer.org
Culture
The Root
AutoStraddle
Headlines
- Al Jazeera
- Democracy Now
Fact Checking
Media Matters
Politifact
Snopes
FactCheck.org
Good and New
https://www.goodgoodgood.co/
https://www.ethicalconsumer.org/
Left
https://znetwork.org/
https://www.blackagendareport.com/
Better lists
https://fair.org/take-action-now/media-activism-kit/fairs-resource-list/
https://www.trustworthymedia.org/list-of-independent-media/