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Opinion

The Feed Is Lying to You — Here's How to Actually Find Something New to Read

Your news app thinks it knows you. Your social media feed thinks it knows you. They're both wrong — and the cost of that mistake is bigger than you might realize. It's time to start reading people you've never heard of.

Jul 8, 2026

Independent Media

One Reporter, One Town, No Safety Net: The People Rebuilding Local News by Hand

Across America, local newsrooms have been closing at a pace that would have seemed unthinkable twenty years ago. But in the gaps they leave behind, a scrappy generation of one-person news operations is doing something remarkable — actually showing up. We talked to three independent reporters who walked away from institutional media to build something smaller, stranger, and arguably more vital.

Jul 8, 2026