Black Friday is the perfect day to support independent news sites and journalists with clicks and/or cash. 💰

Here are some who are active in the fediverse. Tell us in the comments if there are any we've missed.

 
404 Meda, @404mediaco

Bolts, @bolts

Brian Krebs, @briankrebs
 
Brian Merchant, @brianmerchant
 
Casey Newton, @caseynewton

Cory Doctorow, @pluralistic


Joan Westenberg , @Daojoan

Gareth Halfacree, @ghalfacree


GBH News, @gbhnews

Kim Zetter, @kimzetter


Knowable Magazine @KnowableMag

LWN.net, @lwn

Molly White, @molly0xfff


ProPublica, @ProPublica
 
Rest of World, @restofworld
 
San Francisco Public Press, @SFPublicPress
 
Steve Herman, @w7voa
 
The Texas Observer, @TexasObserver 
 
The Continent, @thecontinent

The Conversation, @TheConversationUS

The New York Review of Books, @nybooks
 
The Transmitter, @thetransmitter
 
The Tyee, @thetyee

The Xylom, @thexylom


The Tucson Sentinel, @TucsonSentinel
 
Tim Mak/The Counteroffensive, @timkmak
 

#Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #News #BlackFriday #Media #Journalism #FollowFriday

When I'm interviewing someone and they say "sorry for rambling," 99 times out of 100 I'm on the other side of the microphone thinking, "keep talking, you're giving me the good quotes."

#journalism

Support #PeerTube

Google has fully capitulated to Trump and is actively protecting human rights violators and war crimes perpetrators from accountability.

“It is outrageous that YouTube is furthering the Trump administration’s agenda to remove evidence of human rights violations and war crimes from public view”

@palestine

https://theintercept.com/2025/11/04/youtube-google-israel-palestine-human-rights-censorship

#google #youtube #censorship #genocide #warcrimes #humanrights #journalism #freepalestine

“Optimistically, then, a surge in the productivity of misinformation generators may provide a similar advantage to the journalistic equivalent of the blue-throated lizards—publications that jealously guard their reputation for truth-telling. “

🎁🔗

#news #ai #media #journalism

by @TheEconomist

https://economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/12/04/ai-misinformation-may-have-paradoxical-consequences?giftId=NGJiN2EzNTYtNWY4Yy00OTY5LTgxZGYtMGRiYjY2MjBiNTRi&utm_campaign=gifted_article

More worker-owned outlets are joining Flipboard — and the fediverse. Follow @Aftermath here for honest, irreverent stories about video games and internet culture, written for humans, not SEO, and you can also discover them in the Flipboard app at

https://flipboard.com/@Aftermath.

#Media #Flipboard #Journalism #VideoGames #Gaming #AftermathSite

Europe should take the fight to America, just by reporting accurately what is going on there and broadcasting it to the World.
Do the opposite of what the BBC is doing....

#EUPOL #Journalism #USA #USPOL #USPOLITICS #BBC

This year, @ProPublica reported on ICE splitting up families, the people behind DOGE and their impact, the backroom dealings of Trump and others in his administration, and more. I'm proud to work with these journalists - and they need your support.

As always, I want to prove that the #fediverse is an important source of support for nonprofits like ours. We're here, we're engaged, and we care.

If you have the means, please consider a donation:

https://give.propublica.org/campaign/748664/donate?c_src=ben

#journalism #democracy

“We will see a resurgence in open source software in journalism — but with new models for support and ongoing development.” I was privileged to contribute to @niemanlab's predictions for journalism this year: https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/the-year-journalism-stops-outsourcing-its-independence/

#journalism #opensource

Donating to @ProPublica supports a newsroom full of investigative journalists intent on bringing about real change through reporting on abuses of power in the public interest. They've done incredible work this year. And if you donate on #GivingNewsDay your donation is matched dollar for dollar. https://give.propublica.org/campaign/748664/donate?c_src=ben #givingtuesday #journalism #democracy

"The Bristol Cable has launched a mobile app that bundles their journalism with the fediverse in a single app. It’s built in partnership with the Newsmast Foundation and available to members from £1/month."

https://connectedplaces.online/fediverse-report-144/

Great stuff @newsmast! How do we get kiwi news outlets on board with this?

#fediverse #NewsMedia #journalism #NewsMast

Today is a good day to set up your Hush Line account. Free and open-source, end-to-end encrypted and @torproject onion ready, it gives professionals like journalists, lawyers, and business owners the easiest way for sources to reach you safely.

https://hushline.app

#whistleblower #tips #journalism #business #law

Support #PeerTube

Google has fully capitulated to Trump and is actively protecting human rights violators and war crimes perpetrators from accountability.

“It is outrageous that YouTube is furthering the Trump administration’s agenda to remove evidence of human rights violations and war crimes from public view”

@palestine

https://theintercept.com/2025/11/04/youtube-google-israel-palestine-human-rights-censorship

#google #youtube #censorship #genocide #warcrimes #humanrights #journalism #freepalestine

“Optimistically, then, a surge in the productivity of misinformation generators may provide a similar advantage to the journalistic equivalent of the blue-throated lizards—publications that jealously guard their reputation for truth-telling. “

🎁🔗

#news #ai #media #journalism

by @TheEconomist

https://economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/12/04/ai-misinformation-may-have-paradoxical-consequences?giftId=NGJiN2EzNTYtNWY4Yy00OTY5LTgxZGYtMGRiYjY2MjBiNTRi&utm_campaign=gifted_article

Yup, that's the #NewYorkTimes 😒 😒 😒

#saneWashing #overtonWindow #falseBalance #integrity #bias #journalism #OpEd #propaganda #corruption #plutocracy #clueless

Europe should take the fight to America, just by reporting accurately what is going on there and broadcasting it to the World.
Do the opposite of what the BBC is doing....

#EUPOL #Journalism #USA #USPOL #USPOLITICS #BBC

The Roosevelt Institute has released its report on the U.S. media crisis. Its key conclusion: "The crisis facing American journalism is the predictable outcome of decades of corporate libertarian media policy that prioritized commercial logics over democracy." Here's the full analysis.

https://flip.it/WFaYYi

#Media #Journalism #MediaIndustry #Newspapers #USNews