As major cuts continue at major media outlets and news outlets across the country, there are an increasing number of small, independent news outlets and individual newsletters starting up. Many of the newsletters have a specific focus, covering topics that are almost never covered by the major news outlets. HEATED, a newsletter by Emily Atkin that focuses entirely on climate change, is a great example of the high quality journalism found in many newsletters. PowerPlays! by Lindsay Gibbs, which I'll write about in the near future, focuses on the lack of gender equality in sports, and is another excellent source of high quality journalism.
Another newsletter I encourage you to check out, especially if numbers are your thing, is Numlock by Walt Hickey. It's a free newsletter that publishes several times per week. Each edition has several short snippets pulled from other news sources that pulls out the numbers in the original article. I'm a big lover of numbers so I really enjoying reading each issue. The snippets range from numbers pulled from sports, dollar amounts pulled from movie earnings, numbers pulled from population statistics, etc.
If numbers are your thing, check out Numlock. It's free to subscribe and you can cancel at any time. There's no negative to subscribing and checking it out! If you really love it, you can contribute a monthly or annual fee and receive at least one subscriber only issue each week. I'm not a subscriber at this time. I only have so much money to go around so can't pay for everything, so for now I'm sticking with the free issues in my email inbox.
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