About NewsOn

Independent news, told plainly.

NewsOn is a reader-funded newsroom of 120 reporters in 38 American cities. We cover the nation, the world, business, technology and culture — and we explain how we do it.

The newsroom, New York
Washington, D.C. · 9 reporters

Politics

From the Capitol to statehouses in all 50 states: votes, money and the people they affect.

What we believe

The rules our editors hold every story to before it reaches you.

  1. Report first, opine laterOur news pages report what happened and why it matters. Opinion lives in its own clearly labeled section.
  2. Show our workEvery story names its sources whenever it safely can, links to documents and says what we still don’t know.
  3. Fix mistakes in publicCorrections run at the top of the story with the date, and every one is logged on our corrections page.
  4. Independent, reader fundedMore than 410,000 subscribers pay for our reporting. No owner, advertiser or party sees a story before you do.
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Years of news

Reporting since 1998

Our story

From a kitchen table to five bureaus

Twenty-eight years in six moments.

1998
Founded

Three reporters, one email

NewsOn starts as a 6 a.m. newsletter written from a kitchen table in Brooklyn, New York.
2013

A real newsroom

We move into 1250 Broadway and open a Washington bureau two blocks from the Capitol.
2017

Readers pay the bills

The paywall launches. Within a year, subscriptions pass advertising as our biggest source of money.
2021

Bureaus coast to coast

Chicago, Denver and Los Angeles open, so the country is covered by people who live in it.
2024
Award

A national award

Our series on the Mississippi River bridges wins the National Press Award for local accountability.
2026
Today

2.4 million readers a month

120 reporters in 38 U.S. cities and the biggest audience in our history.

Leadership

The editors who run the desks

Every story passes at least two of them.

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