Media Recommendations
With long-standing journalistic, academic, and governmental institutions no longer being consistently reliable sources of information and analysis, and corporations increasingly consolidating ownership of entertainment, you might be wondering where to find alternatives. Obligatory warning that my suggestions here are not an endorsement of literally everything these outlets have put out, but I do appreciate a great deal of their content.
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TOPIC KEY
🖼️=art
📖=books
🧩=crosswords & puzzles
♿=disability
🍎=education & teaching
🗳️=electoral politcs
🌱=environmentalism
🕶️=fashion
♀️=feminism
🍝=food
😊=good news
🪧=grassroots movements
📜=history
🏠=homelessness & poverty
🔎=investigative journalism
⚖️=law
🎬=movies
🍼=parenting
⭐=pop culture
🏳️🌈=queer news & culture
✊🏿=racial & ethnic equality
😂=satire & humor
🧪=science
❤️=sex education & dating advice
💻=tech
🎮=videogames
🛠️=workers' rights
📰NEWS
- 404 Media💻
- The 19th News♀️
- The A.V. Club🎬
- Advocate🏳️🌈
- Aftermath🎮
- Anthropeum🧩
- Assigned Media🏳️🌈
- Autonomy News♀️
- AVCX Classic🧩
- Beautiful Bizarre Magazine🖼️
- Beyond X & Y🧪🏳️🌈
- Bolts🗳️
- Climate Desk🌱
- The Conversationalist
- Democracy Now!🗳️
- The Downballot🗳️
- Fatherly🍼
- Flaming Hydra⭐♀️
- The Flytrap⭐♀️
- Good News by Good Good Good😊
- Graphic Policy📖
- Grist🌱
- The Happy News😊
- Hyperallergic🖼️
- Liberal Currents🗳️
- McSweeney's😂
- More Perfect Union🛠️
- Morning Brew💻🛠️
- Mother Jones🗳️
- Mothership🎮♀️
- Ms. Magazine♀️
- My Modern Met🖼️
- News From The States🗳️
- The Onion😂
- Playboy❤️
- Pop Heist⭐
- Prism✊🏿
- Propublica🔎
- Follow Propublica Guild for updates on strike
- Public Books📖
- Ravenous🍝
- Reactor Magazine📖
- Reveal🪧
- Scarleteen❤️
- Shelterforce🏠
- The Sick Times♿
- Stateline🗳️
- Status Coup News🪧
- Talking Points Memo🗳️
- Techdirt💻
- The Tonearm🎵
- truthout🪧
- Typebar Magazine⭐
- Undark Magazine🧪
- Unicorn Riot🪧
- The Wonkette😂
- The Xylom🌱
🏴 PENNSYLVANIA
- Bucks County Beacon
- Philadelphia Inquirer
- Pennsylvania Capital-Star
- Pittsburgh Public Source
- Philly Chapbook Review
BLOGS
- Dave Jorgenson (Local News International)🗳️
- Derek Guy🕶️
- Dr. Nerdlove❤️
- Erin Reed (Erin in the Morning)🏳️🌈
- Girl on the Net❤️
- Heather Cox Richardson (Letters from an American)📜
- Karl Bode🗳️
- Kat Tenbarge (Spitfire News)♀️
- Katelyn Burns (The Burns Notice)
- Laura Jedeed (Firewalled Media)🔎
- Margaret Killjoy🪧
- Marisa Kabas (The Handbasket)🔎
- Matthew Cortland♿
- Mrs. Frazzled (Frazzled About Education)🍎
- Noah Berlatsky🗳️
- Peter Shamshiri (String In a Maze)🗳️
- Preacher from the Black Lagoon🪧
- Qasim Rashid (Let's Address This & Islam Today)
- Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg (Life as a Sacred Text)🪧📜🌳
- Rebecca Solnit🪧🌳
- Sarah Taber (Farm to Taber)
- S.E. Smith (Tell Your Cat I Said...)🌳
🎙️INFO PODCASTS
- 5-4⚖️
- A Bit Fruity🏳️🌈
- American Hysteria⭐
- Assembly Required with Stacey Abramson🪧
- Cancel Me, Daddy⭐
- Childproof🍼
- Citations Needed
- Cool Zone Media*
- Diabolical Lies♀️
- Factually!
- Flaming Stars🧪
- If Books Could Kill📖
- In Bed With The Right♀️
- It's Been a Minute🌳
- Lemonada*
- Liberating Motherhood♀️
- librarypunk
- Live Like the World is Dying
- Maintenance Phase🧪
- No Such Thing
- Ologies with Alie Ward🧪
- Rehash⭐
- Some More News🗳️
- Sounds Like A Cult⭐
- Textory📜
- Too Many Tabs⭐
- Truer Crime
- Vibe Check⭐
- Weird Little Guys📜
- Weirdly Helpful🌳
- WHAT IF WE GET IT RIGHT?🌱
- You're Wrong About⭐
*These are studios that publish multiple podcasts
ENTERTAINMENT PODCASTS
- The Cryptonaturalist
- The Downside with Gianmarco Soresi
- Hard Launch
- MusicalSplaining
- So True with Caleb Hearon
- Syd & Olivia Talk Shit
- Welcome to Nightvale
- The New Albion Radio Presents Astonishing Tales of the Highly Improbable!**
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📺STREAMING
- Complexly
- Dropout
- Means TV
- Nebula