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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...
Important Context
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
Newsletter
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
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
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
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...
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...
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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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
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
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
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...
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
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
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...
