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Hoshipedia: News

This will be a wiki with bookmarks to news sources, with the means I have found useful to follow them.

Usually I prefer not to follow feeds to news, as the number of stories tends to be overwhelming (I do follow some feeds to blogs; especially to blogs that have infrequent posts, since otherwise I would not know (without checking) whether there is a new post.

However, if I find that there is no other reasonable way to follow a news source without submitting to lots of tracking and ads, I will include it here.

For some news sources, the best method is to visit their website with a browser that blocks all ads, trackers and JavaScript disabled. When this is true and it works, I use a dedicated browser for this purpose. Mullvad on the desktop; Tor on Android.

For other news sources there are anti-paywall browser plugins that enable one to read for free. I will include information about this here.

At least one of my sources has a Substack, but it is possible to subscribe to his posts by email.

Then there are podcasts, which usually can be listened to for free. For these, I use the Podverse Android app, which is available through FDroid. If one uses a VPN wth a server in which the podcast does not advertize, one can often hear the podcast ad-free.

Extracting news from the internet, without paywalls, trackers, ads etc. is not so simple and a variety of methods nead to be employed. It is also not simple for news media to make money. It's the cases in which we both have to pay and submit to being tracked that are the most annoying. Since it is not feasible for most people to pay for subscriptions to a variety of different journals, I think there needs to be some system that permits one to make micropayments across the web for the articles one actually reads. I'm waiting to see this adopted by news sites.

All sources are in English.

Topics / Regions

Investigative Journalism

Forbidden Stories

  • Web: https://forbiddenstories.org
  • Description: an international network of journalists whose mission, unique in the world, is to continue the investigations of other reporters who have been silenced.
  • Method: Visit the website.

Africa

The Continent

  • Web: https://www.thecontinent.org
  • Description: "The Continent is a weekly newspaper produced by African reporters, photographers, illustrators and editors. It is designed to be read and shared on WhatsApp (and other social messaging platforms), and has become the continent's most widely distributed newspaper."
  • Method: Subscribe to weekly newsletter

Middle East

+972 Mag

  • Web: https://www.972mag.com
  • Description: Independent journalism from Israel-Palestine
  • Method: Visit the website

Jonathan Cook

  • Web: https://www.jonathan-cook.net, Substack, Middle-East Eye
  • Description: Independent journalist, focus on Middle East and UK politics. Often has a completely different, non-establishment take on issues that it is hard to find elsewhere.
  • Method: subscribe for free to his newsletter. More articles than on his website. Sends these as text, audio.

Middle East Eye

Al Majallah

  • web https://en.majalla.com
  • Description: a Saudi-owned, London-based political news journal published in Arabic, English and Persian.[1] The magazine's headquarters in Saudi Arabia are located in Jeddah.
  • Method: Visit the website

RUSSIA

Meduza

Miscellaneous

Novafuture

web: https://novafuture.org - Description: "Eco Action for Autonomy - Another future is possible!" - Method: Visit the website

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