Are there any American newspapers left that haven't turned into social media?

[cr0w@infosec.exchange]

Are there any American newspapers left that haven't turned into social media? They all seem to be:

• Ads
• Reprint quotes from rich people with no validation or verification
• Reply guys
• Ads
• "Opinion" pieces
• Reprints from other sources
• Ads
• Billionaire buy-outs to kill the platform
• Ads

Even the local stuff generally doesn't have any investigative aspects anymore.

I know it's been this way for a while but I just now realized that they really are just legacy social media. And that's sad.

[multisn8@mastodon.catgirl.cloud]

@cR0w The Atlantic is doing a pretty good job, I think

[paco@infosec.exchange]

@cR0w I pay to support https://www.virginiamercury.com/ . They're part of an org called "States Newsroom" and they seem to have local journalists on the ground that do real reporting. Like, these are the people still showing up at hearings and filing FOIA requests.

It's bleak. There aren't many good options. But this is one.

[tindrasgrove@infosec.exchange]

@cR0w https://lancasteronline.com/

[aakl@infosec.exchange]

@cR0w It's not easy. There are too many "sponsored" posts masquerading as journalism. In some cases, the giveaway is the absence of any bio or link to the writer. That's when you know the post was written by a marketer. And many of the smaller sites rely on the big guns for stories and quotes. Wired and 404 Media are some of the few still doing their own investigative work.

But on the bright side, I've been running into smaller radio stations and newspapers picking up the slack. That's a good thing.

[cr0w@infosec.exchange]

@AAKL Wired and 404 and the like aren't what I was thinking of. They seem to be in a journalism-specific category as opposed to news, at least in my mind. That's good that you see local stuff popping up because I definitely do not.