Table of Contents

1. Pro-Democracy Media Outlets
2. Transparent & Bias-Rated News Sources
3. Fact-Checking Organizations
4. State & Local Newsrooms
5. Podcasts (Politics, Law, Media)
6. Newsletters (High Reach & Pro-Democracy)
7. Journalists & Influencers (Cross-Ideology, Pro-Democracy)
8. Civic & Democracy Organizations
9. Digital Media & Commentary Platforms
10. Media Literacy Tools

1. Pro-Democracy Media Outlets

Mainstream, Fact-Based

• ProPublica — https://www.propublica.org
• NPR — https://www.npr.org
• PBS NewsHour — https://www.pbs.org/newshour
• Reuters — https://www.reuters.com
• Associated Press (AP News) — https://apnews.com
• The Guardian (US) — https://www.theguardian.com/us

 

Progressive / Pro-Democracy

• Mother Jones — https://www.motherjones.com
• The Atlantic — https://www.theatlantic.com
• Talking Points Memo (TPM) — https://talkingpointsmemo.com
• Democracy Docket — https://www.democracydocket.com
• Popular Information (Judd Legum) — https://popular.info
• Heather Cox Richardson — Letters from an American — https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
• Crooked Media (Pod Save America) — https://crooked.com
• States Newsroom — https://statesnewsroom.com
• The New Republic — https://newrepublic.com

2. Transparent & Bias-Rated News Sources

• Ground News — https://ground.news
• Ad Fontes Media Bias Chart — https://adfontesmedia.com
• AllSides — https://www.allsides.com
• NewsGuard — https://www.newsguardtech.com
• Media Bias/Fact Check (MBFC) — https://mediabiasfactcheck.com

3. Fact-Checking Organizations

• FactCheck.org — https://www.factcheck.org
• PolitiFact — https://www.politifact.com
• Snopes — https://www.snopes.com
• AP Fact Check — https://apnews.com/hub/ap-fact-check
• Reuters Fact Check — https://www.reuters.com/fact-check
• News Literacy Project (Checkology) — https://newslit.org
• Information Futures Lab — https://informationfutures.org

4. State & Local Newsrooms (Nonprofit + High Integrity)

• Texas Tribune — https://www.texastribune.org
• Georgia Recorder — https://georgiarecorder.com
• Michigan Advance — https://michiganadvance.com
• Arizona Mirror — https://www.azmirror.com
• Nevada Current — https://www.nevadacurrent.com
• Mississippi Today — https://mississippitoday.org
• Colorado Sun — https://coloradosun.com
• VTDigger (Vermont) — https://vtdigger.org
• Wisconsin Examiner — https://wisconsinexaminer.com
• Minnesota Reformer — https://minnesotareformer.com

5. Podcasts (Politics, Law, Democracy)

Democracy & Politics

• Pod Save America — https://crooked.com/podcast-series/pod-save-america
• Strict Scrutiny — https://crooked.com/podcast-series/strict-scrutiny
• The Bulwark Podcast — https://www.thebulwark.com/podcast
• The Lincoln Project Podcast — https://lincolnproject.us/podcasts
• Offline with Jon Favreau — https://crooked.com/podcast-series/offline

 

Law & Institutions

• Amicus (Dahlia Lithwick) — https://slate.com/podcasts/amicus
• Lawfare Podcast — https://www.lawfaremedia.org/podcasts
• Opening Arguments — https://openargs.com

 

Media, Data & Investigations

• On the Media (WNYC) — https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm
• FiveThirtyEight Politics — https://fivethirtyeight.com/tag/politics-podcast
• Reveal (CIR) — https://revealnews.org/podcast
• The Daily (NYT) — https://www.nytimes.com/the-daily

6. High-Reach Newsletters

• Letters from an American — Heather Cox Richardson — https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
• Popular Information — Judd Legum — https://popular.info
• The Bulwark Newsletter — https://www.thebulwark.com
• The Atlantic Daily — https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters
• The Guardian’s “Democracy Watch” — https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/democracy
• The Lever (David Sirota) — https://www.levernews.com

7. Pro-Democracy Journalists & Commentators

(Cross-ideological; all strongly anti-authoritarian.)

Progressive / Center-Left

• Joy Reid — https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout
• Ali Velshi — https://www.msnbc.com/velshi
• Chris Hayes — https://www.msnbc.com/all-in
• Rachel Maddow — https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow
• Jelani Cobb — https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/jelani-cobb
• David Corn — https://www.motherjones.com/author/david-corn

 

Pro-Democracy Conservatives

• Bill Kristol — https://www.thebulwark.com/author/bill-kristol
• Adam Kinzinger — https://www.country1st.com
• Michael Steele — https://www.thebulwark.com/author/michael-steele
• David Frum — https://www.theatlantic.com/author/david-frum

8. Civic & Democracy Organizations (Action-Oriented)

• League of Women Voters — https://www.lwv.org
• Vote.org — https://www.vote.org
• Common Cause — https://www.commoncause.org
• Protect Democracy — https://protectdemocracy.org
• Brennan Center for Justice — https://www.brennancenter.org
• Indivisible — https://indivisible.org
• Black Voters Matter — https://blackvotersmatterfund.org
• When We All Vote — https://whenweallvote.org
• Run for Something — https://runforsomething.net
• Swing Left — https://swingleft.org

9. Digital Media & Commentary Platforms

• The Recount — https://therecount.com
• NowThis News — https://nowthisnews.com
• The Majority Report — https://majorityreportradio.com
• TYT (The Young Turks) — https://tyt.com
• More Perfect Union — https://perfectunion.us
• MeidasTouch — https://www.meidastouch.com
• Channel 1 News — https://channel1.ai

10. Media Literacy Tools

• News Literacy Project (Checkology) — https://newslit.org
• Factitious (Fake news spotting game) — https://factitious.augamestudio.com
• Google Fact Check Explorer — https://toolbox.google.com/factcheck/explorer
• Poynter Institute — https://www.poynter.org
• “Is This Legit?” Guides — https://newslit.org/educators/resources

This resource library is maintained by Do What Matters, a pro-democracy media repository in development. New entries are added regularly. To submit a resource for consideration, contact us.