Here are links (in no particular order) to free content online for US-based, reliable news and magazine sources, ranging across the political spectrum. Some publications limit the number of free online articles per month. Most of the publications listed here are available full text, without limit, through Pace University Libraries. (The only negative is that some multimedia content or images may be missing.)
Use the JOURNAL FINDER tab on the library website to identify the database that includes a particiular newspaper or site. if you love a publication or site, consider subscribing individually.
The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, Forbes, The Atlantic, Al Jazeera, The Nation, National Public Radio, The Christian Science Monitor , Mother Jones, Harper's Magazine, National Review, PBS NewsHour, Jacobin, The Economist, The Pew Research Center, Democracy Now, and Vice.
Recognize that even typically reliable sources, whether mainstream or alternative, corporate or nonprofit, rely on particular media frames to report stories and select stories based on different notions of newsworthiness.
Be critical of the sources people share on social media. Even media literate people will sometimes repost without reading (much less fact checking) first. It is very easy to create fake news posts (complete with fake newspaper mastheads).
