Where to Get Access to News About Coronavirus Without Paid Access
There is no shortage of misinformation and attackers when it comes to coronavirus news. If you want to learn from trusted sources, you may worry about running out of free articles for a month soon and getting stuck trusting a bunch of tweets.
We’ll argue about the importance of paying for news later. For now, let’s focus on the practical: where you can read major news outlets for free.
Click on a news release title to jump directly to the free coverage of that news release.
The New York Times offers free COVID-19 coverage.
The Washington Post has a free coronavirus newsletter. All articles referenced in the newsletter are free of charge.
The Los Angeles Times live coronavirus blog is available for free.
The Chicago Tribune is offering some coronavirus content for free, according to the newspaper’s Twitter thread.
The Wall Street Journal has created a free section for articles on coronavirus.
The Atlantic offers all coronavirus articles for free.
The Star marks free articles related to the coronavirus with a red tag for “free digital access.”
The Guardian has no paid access.
STAT , which deals with health and medical issues, offers free coronavirus coverage.
Another safe bet: read your hometown newspaper. Many are canceling paid access to articles on coronavirus or the entire site to keep local communities up to date.
If your hometown newspaper is one that hasn’t canceled its paid access yet (looking at you, the Chicago Tribune and the Boston Globe), you can get around the rules by opening the link you want to read in an incognito window. …