About Best News Links

Best News Links is an independent guide to the practical side of reading the news in the United States. It answers the questions readers actually type into a search box: how to get a newspaper free through the library, what a subscription really costs after the introductory price, how to check a photo or a statistic before sharing it, where to find an old obituary, and how to watch local news without cable.

What the site covers

Six desks: news apps and feeds, paywalls and subscriptions, checking sources, magazines, newspaper archives and records, and local news. Every guide answers one question and ends with a first step you can take today.

What the site does not do

It does not teach tricks for getting around paywalls, does not rank news outlets by politics, and does not sell the subscriptions, apps or services it describes.

The domain’s past

This address had earlier lives as a blog, an election video site and a magazine news wire. Those pages are kept, unchanged, in the archive.