The Independent News Reader

Periodically sharing links to great reporting from independent and nonprofit media sources. Support independent media. We need it.

STORIES TO READ 8-8-25

Sharing some news and journalism from WGBH, Bolts, Lawfare, Global Voices, and the Alaska Beacon.

August 08, 2025

STORIES TO READ 8-7-25

Sharing stories from Investigate West, 404 Media, Prism, Capital & Main, and The Conversation.

August 07, 2025

STORIES TO READ 8-6-25

Stories today from ProPublica, Science News, Common Dreams, Autonomy News, and The 19th.

August 06, 2025

STORIES TO READ 8-5-25

Stories and reporting from The Marshall Project, Defector, The Nevada Independent, Mountain State Spotlight, and Anthropocene Magazine.

August 05, 2025

STORIES TO READ 8-4-25

Stories from Texas Tribune, Capital B, Inside Climate News, Rest of World, Religious News Service, and The Conversation

August 04, 2025

STORIES TO READ 8-2-25

Stories from Heatmap, Texas Observer, Prism, Wyofile and 404 Media

August 02, 2025

STORIES YOU MIGHT WANT TO READ 8-1-25

In my ongoing support and promotion of independent and nonprofit media on Bluesky, I decided to experiment with expanding that effort. As an editor for 15 years, I read, skim, and scroll through a lot of news sites daily. But I am a bit of an old head when it comes to online media. Having been chronically online for over 20 years, I fondly remember the days of scrolling through my RSS feeds (miss you, Google Reader), reading dozens of blog posts each day by very smart people on everything from pop culture to politics to personal diaries of interesting lives from folks I would never meet. I miss those days and what our media landscape has become.

August 01, 2025