New Yorker, Newsweek (Kurt Eichenwald), Mother Jones.

I forgot about Mother Jones. I used to take Newsweek years ago.

I love Mother Jones. David Corn is a favorite. Newsweeks Kurt Eichenwald has been right on top of Trump during the entire campaign. He's had death threats but keeps on fighting the Trumpsters. New Yorker often has good articles, but I don't subscribe.

My doctor suggest AlJazeera for world news (something we rarely get in the US).

reasonable coverage of world events.

My focus, however, for this question is specifically where to spend my news related dollars rather than just where to get the best news. The idea is to support US journalism in order to help keep Trumps feet to the fire.

I can't remember why I stopped

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http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/

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but I'm really interested in supporting US journalism.

I got tired of the center-right slant of the Economist - most of our media in this country are right or corporate leaning. I'd like to see some support for the left point of view.

You do better sometimes with blogs, though most of the good ones curate global links.

Mother Jones is good, so is the Rolling Stone. To be honest, I've better luck with my local Indy - "austinchronicle.com" than any paper here.

Some college papers might be good as well, though they are definitely variable in their quality.

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I don't have much hope for either the Arizona Republic or ASU's paper!

The Tucson paper is much better, one I'm considering.

Or the indy paper - which in my case is the Austin Chronicle. In Atlanta it's called Creative Loafing. Much better than the official newspaper.

online along with many other sources.

if you want an actual copy i recommend washington post or nyt and there are some others also.

but at the same time i think you should read bbc and some other foreign sources from time to time.

check out
consortium news.com

Haaretz, very good Jewish newspaper.
What languages do you read?

but probably not enough to read a newspaper yet.

But my focus is on supporting journalism in the US.

If you want to know what is happening follow the money.

Bloomberg, Barron Weekly, Wall Street Journal, The Observer, Christian Science Monitor. Learn to read between the lines.

I also used to seek out The Washington Monthly, as they would address neglected issues (community policing, etc.), though I couldn't stomach their views on school vouchers.

You might also look into The New Yorker.

My parents are die hard New Yorker readers but it reminds me too much of the 10 years I spent on Long Island - where, while I was having a pretty great time, I could not stand where I was living!

What do you dislike or complain about the Washington Post?

...and the like.

Case in point: Like many media outlets, The Post gave very lavish coverage to Trump during the campaign and in fact did the same for the tea party. I'd pick up the paper and find three or four stories on the tea party, and this despite the essentially minority nature of the movement.

With Trump, there'd be a couple of front-page stories, including on the day The Post ran a report on Hillary Clinton's proposal for lowering prescription drug prices. The prescription drug story ran on the very last page of Section A.

I also cannot stand Chris Cillizza and feel that he typifies everything that's wrong with political commentary -- given to shallowness, schadenfreude, and short attention span.

On the plus side, I enjoy the local columnists and appreciate the arts critics, Anne Midgette and Ann Hornaday in particular, and at times there's some wonderful reporting on national issues, the opioid epidemic being a recent example. I like Paul Farhi's columns on the media, Michael Dirda's on books, and Dan Balz's on politics.

Good luck and I hope you find the right mix of media!

many of the most hard hitting anti-Trump stories I've seen since the election seem to have come from there ... although perhaps a case of too little, too late.

The reality is that I get most of my news right here from DU so my goal is not so much to inform myself but to Robert Reich and John Oliver's urging of supporting investigative journalism. Part of me wants to support strong left media like Mother Jones and/or The Nation while part of me thinks it is more important to support media that is more widely read on both sides of the aisle.

...such as how the federal workforce really operates. There was a recent column on the proposal to freeze hiring and how that has been tried before, with unintended consequences.

So yes, I agree wholeheartedly it matters to support a basic meat-and-potatoes newspaper or news magazine, and to engage in dialogue with said entity where possible. Time was when The Washington Post had an ombudsman -- Patrick Peyton, the late Deborah Howell et al -- who truly did respond to reader concerns. Now they have something called a reader representative, and there's no longer that sense of having a contact at the heart of things.

So I do wish you all the best as you embark on this, and I appreciate the burden reporters carry.

I'm going to read all the suggestions in this thread.

Some personal recommendations.

BBC news online. For straight news, especially international it's good. For writing on the USA & editorials, I try to read the conservative as well as the liberal points of view.

The Wall Street Journal. A political economist mentor once suggested it for getting a better understanding of what's going on with capitalism. I find it useful for that too. It also has a pretty wide range of editorial pieces as well. For example, it has often carried Noam Chomsky opinion pieces.

The New Yorker. The best writing & fact checking, imho.

The Economist. Great for world news. Fairly liberal.

The L.A. Times. Great for reading about the entertainment industry (our biggest export), Latin American and Asian news.

The New York Times. Hated by the alt-right, so it's obviously still doing great journalism.

The Atlantic. Longer opinion type pieces which go into great detail. Harpers, The Nation,

Your local newspaper(s). For coverage in your local area & wire stories. Pretty good about publishing letters, depending on the size of the paper (and your language, lol). All politics begin locally. Think globally act locally.

I found this: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/2/2/1274385/-A-List-of-Political-News-Sources-Left-to-Right

I remembered your post and thought I'd share if you haven't seen it before

I know that's not part of your plan, but they were better than NYTimes this last election and maybe you could save money and support another paper/publication.

I thought someone should start a PAC to fund investigative journalism/investigations. I'm in

and my gov email address probably won't last very long! Otherwise I like the idea of supporting another publication.

I don't know about papers in the SW specifically, but I know that some of the best reporting in the intermountain west generally comes from https://www.hcn.org/ and http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/

that the good papers won't be able to stay in business unless some people stay on after the 10 free articles and pay to read them.

The Nation is a good magazine.

are also doing pretty well post election. Its funny cause they are considered left by more right leaning sources and right by more left leaning sources so it sounds like they are pretty centrist - which had definite pros as long as they are truly centrist and not what passes for centrist in this country but is really reasonably far right.

newspapers were doing. I don't know if they were left or center -- just that they were doing real work and real reporting: the kind of reporting other newspapers weren't bothering to do.

And Trump HATES the owner, and has vowed retaliation. All the more reason to buy an online subscription.