The Baltimore Banner

Pulitzer-prize-winning journalism from a nonprofit that rebuilt from the talent that was at the Baltimore Sun.

Great for local coverage, decent for nationwide topics, and the parent organization is expanding on the blueprint with the recent acquisition of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

You want educated folks and good journalism? Then you gotta subscribe to good local (and national) news. Advertising is not enough and tough to balance with the glut of free content flooding everybody's screens these days.

Reminder: you can “negotiate” with virtually any newspaper source. I cancel each one before renewal and always end up paying a fraction of the price during the "~5 minute “cancellation” process.

Yes, yes, dark patterns. And yes, yes, I mention this in the same breath where I pontificated about “funding journalism” but I do so because a) I do it and b) if it help entice you to pay for quality news (vs. settling for free, corpo-controlled slop) then more power to us all.

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