Good blogs (that are not on Substack(TM)
Bloggers and Independent News Outlets
The private company Substack(TM) has become so dominant in the blogging space – and is so good at promoting its brand, that people have started calling blogs "substacks". But actually, there are a number of platforms where great journalists have blogs or newsletters so if you stay within Substack(TM)'s walled garden, here is just a small sampling of what you are missing.
WordPress
- The 19th
- The Intercept
- Center for Cooperative Media
- Pluralistic Cory Doctorow
- Documented
- Rural Progressive Voices
- Talking Points Memo
- Press Watch (Dan Froomkin)
Ghost
- 404 Media
- The Lever
- Tangle News
- Local News Blues (currently inactive but returning soon, better than ever).
- Meditations in an Emergency (Rebecca Solnit)
- Downballot
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Down Ballot covers state and local news in North and South Carolina plus adjacent areas. On Fridays, we publish a weekly report of state and local news from nonprofit news outlets across the U.S.
Ben Ledbetter
Medium
- The Whole Story: Solutions Journalism
- Whither News Jeff Jarvis
Beehiiv
- Small Press, Big Ideas
- The Handbasket, Marisa Kabas
Self-hosted
- Beat the Press Dean Baker / Center for Economic and Policy Research
- Notes on the Crises Nathan Tankus
- Anil Dash
- Naked Capitalism
- Status News (Power Lines)
