Papers you have heard of
On the shelf: 14
News · Mass media
Read across. Decide for yourself.
This is a directory, not a feed: every major national outlet, grouped by what kind of organization it is, ordered alphabetically, linking to its own front page. Outpost does not rank these outlets, does not filter them, and does not tell you which to trust — it hands you the whole shelf and the tools to check any claim yourself.
The same story, two shelves
Read both. We pick neither.
One story. One paper you have heard of, and one you may not have. Both get the same space on this page. We do not say which one is right.
Each story starts with the paper the news is about. A bill. A court file. An order. You can open it yourself.
- Order
- Earliest first, by the time each one went up.
- Who picks the two
- You do. One from each shelf. If we picked the two, we would be the editor. That is the one thing this page must not be.
On a phone, one has to be on top. You choose which. We keep nothing.
Independent reporters
This shelf is empty
There is no shelf of independent reporters yet. Dispatch is where they will write. It is not open. It lists the rules a story must meet, and it says plainly that it stays shut until the safety checks are built. So no one has written there yet.
- Dispatch opens and the first reporters write there. Then the shelf is the people who met the rules.
- Or the founder writes down a rule for picking them, and signs it. A rule, and not a list of names.
No story is set up yet.
A story needs both sides. We have one shelf and not the other. So there is nothing to show yet, and we will not fill in the missing half.
The live feed · reporting its own state
Live headlines are not built yet. Nothing is being pulled. When the feed ships it will show, for each outlet you choose to follow: the headline, the name of the outlet, the time it published, and a link that leaves Outpost for that front page. Chronological, per-outlet opt-in, and identical treatment for every outlet on the shelf.
What it will never do, regardless of what ships:
- Republish an outlet’s reporting — headlines-plus-links only, never article text, never images.
- Embed a station’s stream or player. The founder’s ask — “almost like if we embedded their station” — crosses a licensing line the queue itself flags, so the embed question is filed with counsel (§18.11 of the consolidated brief) and nothing embeds unless counsel clears it.
- Rank outlets, or order anything by engagement.
- Show a placeholder headline while the connector is unbuilt.
The connector will live at apps/api/src/sources/news_headlines.py and needs both the licensing answer and per-outlet feed terms read first. Until then the directory below is the real thing — every link goes straight to the outlet, so you are never waiting on us.
Wire services
Broadcast networks
Cable news
National newspapers
Public radio
A network of independently operated member stations. NPR's own finance page says Congress has passed a rescission bill to claw back federal funding for public media.
Before you believe anything — including us
- Trace the claim to a primary source. The Transparency Toolkit shows you how to pull the actual record — FOIA, inspectors general, spending data, court filings.
- Practice the skill on purpose in the Arcade’s source-checking games.
- Independent journalists publishing under Outpost’s evidence standard live at Dispatch — a separate tab, because independent work and mass media deserve separate shelves.