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It is vital to have a free press. Please pay for these excellent sources of news if you can afford it.
Utah and local news:
- Utah Public Radio (UPR)
- Details: Broadcasts from Utah State University in Logan on 91.5 FM (KUSU) and across a statewide translator network. It offers regional reporting, local public affairs like Access Utah, and NPR programming.
- Access Utah is the daily show about local issues. Listen to it wherever you get podcast and at the source.
- Key recent
- paper copies are in grocery stores and are mailed to subscribers
- Details: Logan-based daily newspaper providing essential local reporting on Cache Valley city governments, county affairs, local sports, and community events
- Utah Public Radio:
- UPR reporting on the Repeal Proposition 4 effort and its illegal and unsavory tactics.
- https://www.upr.org/show/access-utah/2026-08-12/bears-ears-grand-staircase-national-monuments
- Hear BOTH sides of the argument. False information about siZes of older monuments was presented.
- Supreme Court Ruling: The size of the monument was legally challenged, but a 1920 U.S. Supreme Court decision confirmed that the president had the authority to establish national monuments of large scale under the Antiquities Act.
- GRAND CANYON was a large national monument before it became a national park.
- Salt Lake Tribune-no paywall now.
- The Salt Lake Tribune
- Details: A statewide independent digital and print news organization providing high-level watchdog and legislative journalism relevant to all Utah residents. [1]
KUER- National Public Radio from SLC
Sample article:
Politics & Government
1,000 Utahns could lose housing under Trump’s homelessness priorities
Macy Lipkin
, December 16, 2025
A shift away from permanent supportive housing vouchers would force disabled Utahns out of their homes. One advocate calls it a lose-lose for residents and landlords.
Utah News Dispatch
- CACHE VALLEY DAILY (This is a MAGA propaganda sheet when anything even slightly political or environmental is discussed.
- Obits, push pieces, and schedules are probably fine)
Aggregators and analysis of national news:
HEATHER COX RICHARDSON, historian and analyst. She provides both town-hall conversations posted on youtube and nearly daily summaries of insights and analysis. Search facebook, Youtube, her substack essays. Pay if you can. HCR is often a guist on other programs. Google her there too using youtube and substack.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/ and also on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/@heathercoxrichardson
ROBERT REICH: He provides information and analysis through several outlets. Pay if you can. Our moral leaders need to pay their staff.
The Left Hook substack. Amazing analysis and interviews with the best experts.
TRUMP TYRANNY TRACKER by Olga Lautman, Notes. As an expert on tyranny in eastern Europe and Russia, Lautman’s insights are among the best. She compiles a thorough post almost every day of the latest lawlessness.
Democracy Docket -Voter freedom news channel https://www.youtube.com/@DemocracyDocket/videos Voter protection and https://newsletters.democracydocket.com/?utm_campaign=12113932-Free%20Newsletter%20Promo&utm_source=website&utm_medium=nav-button
Hopium chronicles by Simon Rosenberg
The Bulwark is an American conservative, anti-Trump news and opinion website launched in 2018. The Republican writers are against the agenda of the current regime.
5calls.org Software for mobile and desktop that provides updating synthesis of issues and problems facing our country along with simple scripts to call congress.
Paul Krugman, noted economist and nobel prize winner https://paulkrugman.substack.com/
Tim Snyder: https://snyder.substack.com/
Joyce Vance: https://joycevance.substack.com/
Tangle News: https://www.readtangle.com
Meidas news: https://www.meidasplus.com/
Alison Gill of the Daily Bean: https://dailybean.substack.com/profile/notes
Card Campaign; summaries of topics
Substacks:
Shari Dunn https://substack.com/@sharidunn
Robert Reich https://robertreich.substack.com/
Wajahat Ali https://thelefthook.substack.com/
Mary Geddry https://substack.com/@marygeddry
Heather Cox Richardson https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/
Audio
“Sisters in law” podcast https://www.politicon.com/podcasts/sisters-in-law/
“Next comes what” podcast by Andrea Pitzer
Steve Inskeep (NPR) interviews a conservative influencer (7 min)
Video
Pod Save America: Crooked Media
John Lithgow reading a summary of Timothy Snyder’s On Tyranny (10 min)
PBS Newshour Tipping Point (daily 1-hr)
Books:
Ten habits of peacemakers by Steven Collis
The righteous mind by Jonathan Haight
On tyranny by Timothy Snyder (see also John Lithgow’s 10-min video summary)
Kara Fisher “Tech Billionaires and the Rural Poor” (1-hr video)
Publicly supported and less biased sources of news (in no particular order)
PBS Newshour , PBS in general. BEING THREATENED WITH LAWLESS CUTS of federal funding
Amapour and company https://www.youtube.com/@AmanpourandCompany
National Public Radio https://www.npr.org/sections/national/ BEING THREATENED WITH LAWLESS CUTS of federal funding
Deutsche Welle (DW): https://www.dw.com/en/top-stories/s-9097
Voice of America HAS ALREADY BEEN ILLEGALLY SILENCED!!!!!!
Newspapers and magazines (in no particular order)
The Guardian Newspaper: https://www.theguardian.com/us
Propublica: https://www.propublica.org/
New Yorker magazine: https://www.newyorker.com
Atlantic Magazine: https://www.theatlantic.com
Los Angeles Times: https://www.latimes.com/
Salt Lake Tribune: https://www.sltrib.com
The New Republic magazine: https://newrepublic.com/
Democracy Now!: https://www.democracynow.org/
NYtimes, watch for normalizing dictatorship. NYTIMES called a Nazi Salute “an ambiguous hand gesture” . www.nytimes.com
The Nation Magazine: https://www.thenation.com/
Pew Charitable Trusts: https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/
Vox: https://www.vox.com/
Slate: https://slate.com/
Rolling Stone magazine: https://www.rollingstone.com/
Vanity Fair magazine: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/politics
Reveal podcast: https://revealnews.org/podcast/
High Country News: https://www.hcn.org
Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/
CNN:
The Hill
NBC, CBS and ABC news
Wall Street Journal
Reuters
WIRED has had major scoops!
Washington Post: Washington Post has been in the news because its billionaire owner, Jeff Bezos, muzzled the histories newspaper. They have a few great hjournalists left but be careful. https://www.washingtonpost.com
Other miscellaneous sources:
Substack has many great writers and information in video. The ink, Bulwark,
Crooked media - but finding nuggets there may be harder
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmR18s-QP9s
White papers about what can be done to resist https://convergencemag.com/
Robert Reich suggests:
: The Guardian, Democracy Now, Business Insider, The New Yorker, The American Prospect, Americans for Tax Fairness, The Economic Policy Institute, The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, ProPublica, Labor Notes, The Lever, Popular Information, Heather Cox Richardson, and, of course, this Substack.
Olga Luatman uses these sources:
TTT day 101
New York Times: 5
Politico: 3
ProPublica: 1
Mother Jones: 2
CBS News: 2
NPR: 3
ABC News: 4
Reuters: 2
The Washington Post: 2
CNN: 4
Wall Street Journal: 3
The Guardian: 2
Axios: 1
USA TODAY: 2
The Hill: 3
Associated Press: 6
50501: 1
NOTUS: 1
TTT day 100 https://trumptyrannytracker.substack.com/p/trump-tyranny-tracker-day-100
Associated Press: 4
New York Times: 2+5
NBC News: 1
X (formerly Twitter): 1
WIRED: 2
The Guardian: 2
CNN: 3
The Hill: 4
USA TODAY: 2
The Washington Post: 1
ProPublica: 1
Wall Street Journal: 2
50501: 1
NPR: 1
Follow SOURCES OF RELIABLE INFORMATION:
What is "credible" news? From Olympic College library https://libguides.olympic.edu/news
Quality journalism provides the public with accurate information, analysis, and comment so they can make informed decisions and participate in democracy. Quality journalism helps protect citizenry by making the government and the private sector accountable. Investigative journalism in particular aims to expose corruption and malfeasance in government and in private institutions. Propublica is an example of an investigative news organization.
Established newspapers of record can lose their reputation due to financial collapse, take-over or merger by another entity that did not have the same standards or allowed increased government control and suppression of the paper's editorial independence. The Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post are examples of newspapers that have suppressed of the papers' editorial independence. (SUSANNE THINKS IT IS STILL OK BUT WE NEED TO WATCH)
Misinformation is spread with the intent to mislead the public for financial or political gain. False stories that are widely accessed and shared through social media (often with bots or automated accounts) can generate substantial advertising revenue for their purveyors, but they can also inflict lasting social and political harm in the process.
For credible news, it is best to seek out outlets which are well-staffed with reporters, and which follow a strict, fact-checked editorial process. Outlets might include broadcasting services such as National Public Radio, press services such as Reuters or Associated Press, or international “newspapers of record” such as The Guardian.
These types of newspapers generally require a paid subscription for access. But you can access a number of "newspapers of record" for free through through our library databases--including National Newspaper Core, U.S. Major Dailies--in one search. Watch this video on how to use this database.
And Explore this guide for links to a variety of local, independent, national and international news!
Heather Cox Richardson was interviewed by these sources. They are likely reliable
Heather Cox Richardson is an expert in nineteenth-century America, specializing in politics and economics. Her most recent book, To Make Men Free, A History of the Republican Party From 1854 To The Present, was released in 2014. Cox Richardson’s first four books explored the Civil War, Reconstruction, the Gilded Age, and the American West, and stretched from the presidencies of Abraham Lincoln to that of Theodore Roosevelt. Her The Death of Reconstruction (2001), Wounded Knee: Party Politics and the Road to an American Massacre (2010), and West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America After the Civil War (2007) were all selections of the History Book Club; West from Appomattox was also an Editor’s Choice selection of the New York Times Book Review. She is also the author of: The Greatest Nation of the Earth: Republican Economic Policies during the Civil War. Richardson is president of The Historical Society, an organization designed to bring academic history to general readers. Her expertise has been utilized by the New York Times, Bloomberg, CNN.com, BBC, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and Huffington Post; her blogs for The Historical Society won the Cliopatria Award.
Her daily digest, Letters From an American, about Trump's ongoing impeachment process has attracted something of a cult following:
The Nation "Start Making Sense" podcast
