Best of the worker owned co-ops and the web alt weekly-ish scene of now?

June 20, 2024 7:50 PM

Looking to add some less corporate stuff to my media diet and seeking your favorite sites for adding to my RSS reader. I love a non-profit newsroom, but I am also ready to pay for the best of subscription based medial.

I love Defector, Hellgate, 404 media, Rascal.news, Flaming Hydra, the Chicago Reader... I read (and enjoy) Platformer for work...

Where else should I be seeking out to support those good links? I am interested in news and technology but also culture and comedy and comics and weird poetry and fiction.

Basically, If you like it a lot, I might like it a lot, and if I don't, I am sure somebody in here will. Posting frequency doesn't matter, can be paid or free.
Thank you <3

posted by wowenthusiast to Media & Arts (10 answers total)

In the videogame sphere there's Remap and Aftermath. Remap is more focused on the podcast side of things, but they do have articles.
posted by juv3nal at 9:59 PM on June 20, 2024 [1 favorite]

Those were started by ex Vice Games/Waypoint and Kotaku people respectively btw. Gita, at Aftermath, has previously been at both.
posted by juv3nal at 10:03 PM on June 20, 2024

unicorn riot, the guardian, democracy now!
also culture and comedy
New Yorker, Aeon, xkcd, mcsweeney's "you've read your last free article, such is the nature of mortality" via blogspot/Interglacial
posted by HearHere at 10:47 PM on June 20, 2024

Talking Points Memo is my daily center-left political news and analysis read. It’s supported by subscriptions but also has some free content.
posted by Winnie the Proust at 4:30 AM on June 21, 2024 [1 favorite]

High Country News has great reporting of the west.
posted by nickggully at 5:53 AM on June 21, 2024 [2 favorites]

Isthmus is the alt weekly for Madison Wisconsin happenings, Cap Times for progressive news
Westword, the alt weekly for Denver, and Boulder Weekly for Boulder. Where else do progressives learn about burro racing?
Block Club for independent Chicago news
posted by paradeofblimps at 9:06 AM on June 21, 2024

I work at Broad Street Review, a Philadelphia digital arts & culture outlet. We're a non-profit, and the vast majority of our budget goes to paying our staff, including every writer. While much of our coverage focuses on performing arts in the Philly region, we also include personal essays, book reviews, movie and TV/streaming critique, and more.
posted by knile at 10:11 AM on June 21, 2024

ProPublica is a non-profit national news outlet that also supports several local newsrooms in parts of the country that need additional journalism support. They do outstanding investigative reporting, often with a strong angle on public welfare, climate,and inequity.
posted by forkisbetter at 1:34 PM on June 21, 2024 [2 favorites]

Maximum Fun has an incredible array of amazing podcasts. My favorite is Judge John Hodgman. :)
posted by sickinthehead at 6:29 PM on June 21, 2024 [1 favorite]

Dozens of recommendations for short scifi/fantasy fiction.
posted by brainwane at 7:58 PM on June 21, 2024 [1 favorite]