Journalist and independent-press advocate Josh Stearns offers a wide range of resources for readers looking for trustworthy media outlets in our post-truth, fake-news era.

“Democrats and most of the mainstream media ignored what was happening in rural America until the morning after the election. And they ignored it at their own peril.” Post US-election, Truevine and Factory Man author Beth Macy writes about the forgotten citizens of rural America.

A journalist makes a posthumous attempt to correct the record on firefighter Paul Ruback, 9/11 hero: “His death was tragic. His courage was heroic. This was a man, like any other. His life was his own.”

An underground network of medical workers and trauma surgeons in Syria, led by David Nott, aims to spread medical knowledge as the Syrian government strives to eradicate it.

Dana Schwartz, an Observer journalist, writes to the newspaper publisher after Donald Trump — his father-in-law — shares a controversial (arguably anti-Semitic) tweet.

“Can the sweet tastes of Syria be recreated in Europe?” At The GroundTruth Project, a pair of journalists chronicle the epic journey of best friends Ahmed and Rashed — who had escaped war in Syria — and the story of the famous sweet shop chain, Salloura.

In this post, professor Katherine Reed at the University of Missouri offers journalistic lessons learned in the wake of campus riots and protests, both online and off.

At Beyond the New Yorker, Meagan Flynn interviews Mike Sager, writer-at-large for Esquire magazine, about in-depth reporting, getting the story right, and the future of longform journalism: “The important thing about all of this stuff is finding the truth. The truth is always so much cooler than the hype. That’s what makes it worthwhile.”

Aaron Riccio on freelance writing, “exposure,” and getting paid: “So when someone like Thayer, whether you respect the guy or not, announces that he’s being treated the same way as the rest of us, that the freelancer is essentially an ink-stained Sisyphus, rolling words uphill and then being crushed back down by financial burdens, it makes one pause.”

In this close look at plagiarism and “the power of writing without attributing,” Our Bad Media analyzes a selection of New Yorker articles written by Malcolm Gladwell.

An interview with Bob Cohn, co-president and COO of the Atlantic: “I do think that someday print will not be around, but I’ll have to say that it’s much farther into the future than many of us were talking about four years ago. And I don’t see it coming in the near future at all. Print is stronger than ever.”

“So here’s the thing, the Fields Medal is easy to understand but it’s incredibly and dangerously misleading. It gives the impression that we have these superstars who ‘have it’ and then we have a bunch of wandering nerds who ‘don’t really have it.'” Cathy O’Neil wants to see journalism centered around the collaborative effort in mathematics.