General Discussion

As others have, I recommend The Guardian. I have a bookmark for the US news "home page." (You can choose UK, Australia, maybe other areas too.). They have great minute by minute live coverage for important events, posting every five or ten minutes when it's busiest. I also like that it's not just political news, but they cover popular culture, climate, technology, health, arts, books, you name it. They publish far more information than anywhere else I've seen about what's happening in the non-English speaking, non-European parts of the world. Some long-form articles are available as podcasts. They have the best overall coverage of LGBTQ+ issues of the major outlets (that I've seen), especially since the NY Times has helped skew the public discourse on transgender issues (personally relevant to me).

They have reporters stationed here permanently, both US-born and from abroad. I really like that they don't take advertising, and as someone on limited income, I appreciate the options to pay what I can, with no paywall. Having seen what Rupert Murdoch (Fox News owner) did to degrade the Australian and the British press, the Guardian staff knows the value of remaining untainted by the motivations of a for-profit structure. They have been called upon in the past to collaborate on important international investigative reporting, challenging corruption and abuse, and that says to me that other reporters and organizations trust them too.

https://www.theguardian.com/us

As a side note, I used to be a paying subscriber to the NYT, having grown up in a household where we always bought the thickly-stacked Sunday edition. They got so bad that their articles have been referred to in footnotes to support right-wing laws limiting the civil rights of LGBTQ people, both on a state level, and federally. It really is sad.

Happy to answer questions by DM, if that helps. Good luck on the project!