A weekly newsletter that makes one New Yorker story free to read, drawn from culture criticism, politics and long-form journalism. Issues also include occasional podcast conversations on current affairs such as the midterm elections.

A collaborative of newsrooms delivers reporting on agriculture, water and climate across the Mississippi River Basin. Readers get narrative, on-the-ground stories about pollution, local communities, environmental monitoring and the people and projects tied to the watershed.

By Design publishes independent investigative reporting on how institutions, policy and power shape public life, drawing on public records and documents. Its issues trace specific cases, such as police operations and newspaper coverage, with sourced detail and a clear critical point of view.

Ephemeron is a blog by media scholar Nikos Smyrnaios on politics and mass communication, with analyses drawing on corpus studies of press coverage and platform effects on news traffic. Issues mix data-driven research write-ups with commentary on how media frame events and how AI search affects publishers.