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Support Independent Journalism

We’re inching closer to our $5,000 goal for this summer! If you’re able to donate, please help us! OptOut is a nonprofit, which means we rely on the generosity of our community to keep us going. As a result, we can assure you our app and the aggregated and original reporting we provide is 100% free—to access, and from corporate influenc

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OptOut Media Foundation Launches New Independent News Aggregation Site

OptOut Media Foundation Launches New Independent News Aggregation Site

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023 CONTACT: press@optout.news | (917) 974-4383‌ Brooklyn, N.Y. — Today, the OptOut Media Foundation launched its redesigned website, which now displays aggregated content from the more than 200 financially independent news outlets that make up the OptOut network. OptOut began building a...

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Read OptOut's New Article With Rolling Stone

Read OptOut's New Article With Rolling Stone

Dear reader: We wanted to make sure you noticed that today, the OptOut Media Foundation has a new story with Rolling piece, which can be read at Important Context, OptOut's new home for original reporting, highlights how donor-advised funds like Fidelity Charitable, Vanguard Charitable, and Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust have

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Big News About Coming Changes!

Big News About Coming Changes!

OptOut is ending the summer season with big news! We will soon be doing a full launch of a our own reporting outfit. Important OptOut co-founder Walker Bragman's newsletter, will serve as the foundation for this new venture, which we hope to expand later. The transition, which will take place in the near future, is a natural one...

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OptOut Media Foundation Exposes Major Charities for Funding Hate Groups

OptOut Media Foundation Exposes Major Charities for Funding Hate Groups

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wednesday, August 9, 2023 CONTACT: press@optout.news | (917) 974-4383‌ Brooklyn, N.Y. — The OptOut Media Foundation, in partnership with The New Republic, published an investigative report this morning detailing the stream of funding going from major U.S. charities to Southern Poverty Law Center-designated hate...

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OptOut Media Foundation Hires Amanda Magnani as Climate Editor

OptOut Media Foundation Hires Amanda Magnani as Climate Editor

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tuesday, April 4, 2023 CONTACT: press@optout.news | (917) 974-4383‌ Brooklyn, N.Y. — The OptOut Media Foundation is pleased to announce the hire of Amanda Magnani as its new climate editor. Magnani is a Brazilian journalist and photographer focused on social and environmental issues. After living in seven...

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Harvard's Nieman Lab Tells Readers to Try OptOut News App

Harvard's Nieman Lab Tells Readers to Try OptOut News App

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Friday, March 3, 2023 CONTACT: press@optout.news | (917) 974-4383‌ Brooklyn, N.Y. — In its biggest news feature yet, the OptOut Media Foundation was Thursday in the publication of Harvard University's Nieman Journalism Lab, a site that "attempt[s] to help journalism figure out its future in an Internet age." The...

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As Corporate Media Ignore Chemical Disaster, OptOut Network Covers It

As Corporate Media Ignore Chemical Disaster, OptOut Network Covers It

Before the Norfolk Southern train derailed in East Palestine, Ohio—causing a massive explosion, hours of hazardous chemicals burning, and emergency evacuations—the company helped kill a federal safety at upgrading the rail industry’s Civil War-era braking systems. What's more, President Biden's Department of Transportation still hasn't...

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Our Reporting Has the Far Right Scared

Our Reporting Has the Far Right Scared

OptOut News recently published an original co-founder Walker Bragman’s Important Context newsletter revealing details about a shadowy COVID-19 misinformation hub called the Brownstone Institute. That story has made an impact. We found that, despite Brownstone’s framing of its fight against vaccines and other public safety measures as...

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Reminder: You Can Join OptOut's Chat Community!

Reminder: You Can Join OptOut's Chat Community!

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OptOut Media Foundation Launches Climate, LGBTQ+, New York Verticals

OptOut Media Foundation Launches Climate, LGBTQ+, New York Verticals

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Nov. 3, 2022 CONTACT: press@optout.news | (917) 974-4383‌ Brooklyn, N.Y. — The OptOut Media Foundation, a nonprofit charity with a mission to educate the public and help sustain a diverse media ecosystem by promoting trustworthy, independent news content, has hired three experienced journalists to edit news in...

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OptOut Independent News App Launches on Android

OptOut Independent News App Launches on Android

This is the press newsletter of OptOut, a free news aggregation app for exclusively independent media that's available for Apple and Android devices. Find out more about the app at IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 13, 2022 CONTACT: press@optout.news | (917) 974-4383 Brooklyn, N.Y. — The OptOut Media Foundation, a nonprofit charity dedicated...

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📱The OptOut Android App is Live! 🎉

📱The OptOut Android App is Live! 🎉

This is the newsletter of OptOut, a free news aggregation app for exclusively independent media that's available for Apple and Android devices. Find out more about the app at long last, OptOut News is available for Android! Thank you for your patience as we developed the app and got through an unexpectedly long approval process. You can...

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Independent News Outlets Call on Corporate Media to Stop Making Ads for Fossil Fuel Industry

Independent News Outlets Call on Corporate Media to Stop Making Ads for Fossil Fuel Industry

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 6, 2022 CONTACT: press@optout.news, (917) 974-4383 Brooklyn, N.Y. — More than 20 news outlets and leaders in the OptOut independent media network released an video showing how, even in this time of climate crisis, corporate and legacy media continue to produce ads for oil and gas companies. Corporate Media...

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Major State News Network Joins the OptOut Independent Media Project

Major State News Network Joins the OptOut Independent Media Project

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 5, 2022 CONTACT: press@optout.news, (917) 974-4383 Brooklyn, N.Y. — A nonprofit charity that employs more than 130 full-time editors, reporters, and support staff in 26 states across the country has joined the news aggregation app OptOut News. States Newsroom 26 affiliated and partner outlets fill a void in...

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New Media Nonprofit Raises $150,000 to Distribute Independent News Content

New Media Nonprofit Raises $150,000 to Distribute Independent News Content

The OptOut Media Foundation will use the funds to jumpstart its news aggregation app and other services to aid uncompromising independent media outlets and educate the public with articles, podcasts, and videos that news consumers can count on. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 5, 2022 CONTACT: Lori Paulson | press@optout.news | (917)...

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Media Nonprofit Launches Innovative Independent News App for iOS

Media Nonprofit Launches Innovative Independent News App for iOS

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 14, 2022 CONTACT: Lori Paulson | press@optout.news | 1-917-974-4383 Brooklyn, N.Y. — The OptOut Media Foundation, a nonprofit charity and tech startup, released its news aggregation iPhone and iPad on the Apple Store today. Founded by reporters Alex Kotch and Walker Bragman in August 2020, OptOut worked with

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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: Meet OptOut's News Curators!

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: Meet OptOut's News Curators!

We at the OptOut Media Foundation are thrilled to announce the first news curators for our independent media app. Curators will choose articles, podcasts, and videos to highlight in the app's main feed multiple times per day. Unlike most corporate news apps and social media companies, we have no algorithms and no ads. Instead, our...

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