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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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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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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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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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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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