Mainstream media (newspapers, TV) often clear their stories with Washington or corporate sponsors, limiting our access to accurate journalism. We need also to spend time with more independent sources if we want accurate information about our world. Below is a (growing) list of more independent journalists and aggregators. Try a few, and then subscribe to those that work best for you.
- 350.org
- Center for Biological Diversity
- Center for International Policy
- Center for Media and Democracy
- Center for Public Integrity
- Common Cause
- Common Dreams
- Consortium
- Corporate Accountability
- daily kos
- Economic Policy Institute
- Global Possibilities
- Human Rights First
- Human Rights Watch
- Information Clearing House (has many links)
- Inequality
- MomsRising
- Nation of Change
- National Religious Campaign Against Torture
- openDemocracy
- Pen America
- Portside
- ProPublica
- Reclaim Democracy
- The American Prospect
- The Daily Beast
- The Real News Network
- The Progressive Populist (has many links)
- Thom Hartmann
- Reader Supported News
- Rebuild the Dream
- The American Empire Project
- ThinkProgress
- Too Much
- truthout
- Upworthy
- Waging Nonviolence
- WhoWhatWhy
We who want to strengthen and expand our democracy as a force for world peace know that we must build from accurate factual knowledge. And, with all its varied linkages, the internet has also become a growing source of accurate information. And we know that more efficient searching frees more time for factual learning. That’s where responsible journalists, whistleblowers, and aggregators come in.
Search time can be further diminished by linking your sources to an RSS reader.