ByLine Times is a citizen-funded newspaper (you’ll find it in stores but it’s expensive so subscribe online for big savings or read the online free version). There’s also a V channel and magazine-style Substack account, all citizen-funded and its ‘poster boy’ is actor Hugh Grant, who you may remember took newspapers to court for tapping his phone.
A recent article is how Reform UK plan to scrap nature protection rules which could send our beavers, bats, hedgehogs, birds and butterflies extinct.
Other citizen-funded newspapers
The Conversation is an source of independent news online, which works with academic experts, to help rebuild trust in journalism, after years of bias due to ads, donations and being owned by media barons. All content is free to share or republish under a Creative Commons license, as long as you follow simple republishing guidelines.
The London Economic is a digital newspaper that supports progressive viewpoints and compassionate politics, run mostly by volunteer journalists. Everything is free to read with no paywall.
As an example, one journalist who visited Brixton after a mainstream report that it was full of ‘dangerous dogs’, found a dog that barked once, because he brushed the baguette that was protruding from its guardian’s tote bag!
The Canary offers independent news stories that matter to ordinary people, rather than ‘telling people what to believe and how to vote’. It focuses on peace, funding public services and a compassionate welfare system. A recent article was on how European countries are banning fur farms.
The Real News Network is a worldwide news channel, which focuses on the climate crisis. You can watch all programs on YouTube, and unlike say the BBC, if an episode is on Mexican, it will be a Mexican journalist reporting.
This recent program reports on the plan to destroy 550 tons of emergency high-energy biscuits that are languishing in warehouses rather than feeding starving children, due to the now-defunct USAID program.
Truthout reports on Trump’s plans to open up millions of acres of land for Arctic drilling, which would lead to irreversible harm for local caribou, migratory birds and fish.
And Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill’ resulting in sky-high energy price increases, mostly for his loyal (and mostly on low income) voters.
The Media Revolution asks us to ignore media that has been hijacked by billionaire owners, political operators and advertisers, who push narrow and toxic agendas to erode democracy. It runs its own news clubs (like book clubs, but for news) that you can join and get involved with.
We will not stay silent. We will call it what it is. Genocide, ecocide and menticide (controlling people’s minds): Whether it’s disabled people ‘undeserving of support’, refugees labelled ‘invaders’, climate activists called ‘eco-terrorists’ or entire communities demonised based on race, religion or lifestyle.
It runs a Stop Selling Lies campaign on climate change:
Climate scientist John Cook when asked how much of global warming is caused by humans replies ‘Nearly all of it’. Yet still big newspapers and political parties continue to deny the urgency, or say that it’s not mostly manmade. They are not climate scientists, he is.
