Every News Site and Magazine You Can Read for Free With Skip the Paywall (2026 List)

This is the master list. Every publication below was tested against the live Skip the Paywall reader in September 2026 by pasting a current article and confirming that the full text, not a teaser, came back. The list roughly doubled on 28 September 2026, when we tested the publishers our readers paste most often and added every one that loaded in full, we added eleven more on 29 September 2026 from the same source, twenty more on 30 September 2026, including four Postmedia metros, three Indian titles and a run of US and UK regional papers, another twenty on 1 October 2026, sixteen more on 2 October 2026, twenty-six more on 5 October 2026, sixteen more on 8 October 2026, and fifteen more on 10 October 2026. Where we have written a detailed guide, it is linked. The list is grouped by region and type so you can find the titles you read.

US newspapers

• Los Angeles Times: metered, loads in full. Guide.
• The Boston Globe: metered with a low limit, loads in full. Guide.
• The Seattle Times and Minnesota Star Tribune: metered, load in full. Guide.
• The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: metered, loads in full. Guide.
• The Philadelphia Inquirer: metered, loads in full. Guide.
• Newsday: tightly metered, loads in full. Guide.
• New York Daily News: metered, loads in full. Guide.
• San Diego Union-Tribune: metered, loads in full. Guide.
• The Mercury News, The Denver Post, Pioneer Press, East Bay Times and the other MediaNews Group papers: metered, load in full. Guide.
• NOLA.com / The Times-Picayune: metered, loads in full. Guide.
• The Post and Courier, Kansas City Star, Daily Herald, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and OregonLive: metered, load in full. Guide.
• Chicago Tribune, The Morning Call and Hartford Courant: metered Tribune papers, load in full now that the reader is served from the US. Guide.
• The Baltimore Banner: metered nonprofit, loads in full. Guide.
• Portland Press Herald and the Maine Trust papers: metered, load in full. Guide.
• Albuquerque Journal: metered, loads in full. Guide.
• InForum (The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead), Duluth News Tribune, Grand Forks Herald and the Forum Communications papers: metered, load in full. Guide.
• The Gazette (Cedar Rapids): metered, loads in full. Guide.
• Times-Republican (Marshalltown), The Alpena News and the Ogden Newspapers papers: metered, load in full. Guide.
• Mankato Free Press and the CNHI papers: metered, load in full. Guide.
• Shaw Local (Illinois): metered, loads in full. Guide.
• The Advocate (Baton Rouge, New Orleans and Acadiana): metered, loads in full. Guide.
• The Land (Cleveland Browns coverage): subscriber-only, loads in full. Guide.
• Miami Herald, Idaho Statesman, The Sacramento Bee, The Charlotte Observer, The Modesto Bee, The News & Observer, The Tribune (San Luis Obispo) and the McClatchy papers: metered, load in full. Guide.
• The Press Democrat (Santa Rosa) and Petaluma Argus-Courier: metered, load in full. Guide.
• The Daily Sentinel (Grand Junction): metered, loads in full. Guide.
• Port City Daily (Wilmington, NC): subscriber paywall, loads in full. Guide.
• Boston Herald, The Lowell Sun, Pasadena Star-News, Santa Cruz Sentinel, The Times-Tribune (Scranton), Greeley Tribune and Journal-Advocate: further MediaNews titles, load in full. Guide.
• The Epoch Times: subscription paywall, loads in full. Guide.
• The Christian Science Monitor: metered, loads in full. Guide.
• The Berkshire Eagle and Bennington Banner: metered New England Newspapers titles, load in full. Guide.
• Colorado Politics: metered, loads in full. Guide.
• West Central Tribune, Post Bulletin, Sun Journal, Observer Today and The Macomb Daily: metered sister papers of groups already listed, load in full. See the InForum, Portland Press Herald, Times-Republican and MediaNews guides above.

UK and Irish newspapers

• The Times and The Sunday Times: subscription paywall, but full text is served to crawlers. Guide.
• The Independent, including Independent Premium: freemium, loads in full. Guide.
• The i Paper: metered, loads in full. Guide.
• The Herald (Scotland) and other Newsquest titles: metered, load in full. Guide.
• Irish Times: metered, loads in full. Guide.
• The National (Scotland) and Newsquest regional titles such as The Argus, Bournemouth Echo and Eastern Daily Press: metered, load in full. Guide.
• Irish News: metered, loads in full. Guide.
• The Observer: metered, loads in full. Guide.
• KentOnline, LincsOnline and the Iliffe Media local titles: metered, load in full. Guide.
• News & Star (Carlisle): metered Newsquest daily, loads in full. Guide.
• Irish Farmers Journal: subscriber paywall, loads in full. Guide.
• The Ferret (Scotland): member-funded investigative site, loads in full. Guide.
• The Clare Echo: subscriber paywall, loads in full. Guide.
• The Fence: subscriber-gated magazine, loads in full. Guide.
• Oxford Mail, The Northern Echo, Reading Chronicle, Swindon Advertiser, Lancashire Telegraph, Telegraph & Argus, Dorset Echo, Hexham Courant, Impartial Reporter, East Anglian Daily Times, Norwich Evening News, the Southend Echo and The Pink Un: metered Newsquest titles, load in full. Guide.
• Daily Mail: no paywall; the reader gives you a clean, ad-free version. Guide.

Australian and South African newspapers

• The Canberra Times and Newcastle Herald (Australian Community Media): metered, load in full. Guide.
• News24 (South Africa): freemium, loads in full. Guide.
• Sunday Times (South Africa): premium paywall, loads in full. Guide.
• The Saturday Paper (Australia): subscriber paywall, loads in full. Guide.
• Armidale Express, The Courier (Ballarat), Illawarra Mercury, The Land, Western Advocate, Bendigo Advertiser, Northern Daily Leader and The Border Mail: further ACM titles, load in full. Guide.

Canadian newspapers

• The Globe and Mail: metered, loads in full. Guide.
• National Post and the Postmedia papers: metered, load in full. Guide.
• Financial Post: metered with subscriber-only stories, loads in full. Guide.
• Calgary Herald, Edmonton Journal, Vancouver Sun and Ottawa Citizen: metered Postmedia metros, load in full. Guide.
• Winnipeg Free Press: metered, loads in full. Guide.
• SaltWire (Atlantic Canada): subscriber paywall, loads in full. Guide.
• Telegraph-Journal (New Brunswick): subscriber paywall, loads in full. Guide.

Indian newspapers

• Times of India, including TOI+ stories: metered, loads in full. Guide.
• The Hindu: metered, loads in full. Guide.
• Mint: metered with premium stories, loads in full. Guide.
• The Ken: subscriber-only business journalism, loads in full. Guide.
• Inc42: startup news with an Inc42 Plus tier, loads in full. Guide.
• LiveLaw: legal news with a subscriber tier, loads in full. Guide.

General-interest and culture magazines

• The New Yorker: metered, loads in full. Guide.
• Vanity Fair, Vogue and GQ: metered, load in full. Guide.
• Architectural Digest: metered, loads in full. Guide.
• Tatler and Bon Appétit: metered, load in full (Bon Appétit recipe pages return only the introduction). Guide.
• New York Magazine, including Intelligencer, Vulture, The Cut and Curbed: metered, loads in full. Guide.
• Slate: metered, loads in full. Guide.
• Time: metered, loads in full. Guide.
• Rolling Stone: metered, loads in full. Guide.
• Esquire: membership-gated long reads, load in full. Guide.
• Runner's World, Men's Health, Road & Track, Harper's Bazaar, Cosmopolitan and Elle: Hearst membership gates, load in full. Guide.
• The New York Review of Books: metered, loads in full. Guide.
• London Review of Books: metered, loads in full. Guide.
• Boston Magazine: metered, loads in full. Guide.
• Outside and Climbing: membership-gated, load in full. Guide.
• Defector: subscriber paywall, loads in full. Guide.
• Motor Sport Magazine: metered, loads in full. Guide.
• The Wrap and WWD: entertainment and fashion trades, load in full. Guides: The Wrap, WWD.

Business magazines

• Fortune: metered, loads in full. Guide.
• Business Insider: freemium with subscriber-only stories, loads in full. Guide.
• Skift: travel-industry news, loads in full. Guide.
• Law.com: legal trade press, loads in full. Guide.
• The Real Deal: real-estate news, loads in full. Guide.
• Follow the Money (Netherlands, English edition): investigative journalism behind a subscriber paywall, loads in full. Guide.
• Commercial Observer: commercial real-estate trade paper, loads in full. Guide.
• MIT Sloan Management Review: metered, loads in full. Guide.
• HSJ (Health Service Journal): subscriber paywall, loads in full. Guide.
• American Banker: subscriber paywall, loads in full. Guide.
• Sports Business Journal: subscriber paywall, loads in full. Guide.
• The Loadstar: freight and logistics trade, loads in full. Guide.
• Education Week: metered, loads in full. Guide.
• Adweek: subscriber paywall, loads in full. Guide.
• Buyouts: private-equity trade, loads in full. Guide.
• Architects' Journal: subscriber paywall, loads in full. Guide.

Politics and policy

• Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy: metered, load in full. Guide.
• The New Republic and The Nation: metered, load in full. Guide.
• The Spectator: metered, loads in full on the UK, world and Australian editions. Guide.
• UnHerd: metered, loads in full. Guide.
• The Daily Beast: freemium, loads in full. Guide.
• The Diplomat: metered, loads in full. Guide.
• Prospect: metered, loads in full. Guide.
• New Left Review: subscriber paywall, loads in full. Guide.
• Washington Examiner, including its premium section: loads in full. Guide.
• Quillette: subscriber-only essays, load in full. Guide.
• Heatmap: climate and energy news behind a subscriber paywall, loads in full. Guide.

Science and technology

• Wired and The Verge: metered and freemium respectively, load in full. Guide.
• Scientific American: metered, loads in full. Guide.
• New Scientist: metered, loads in full. Guide.
• MIT Technology Review: metered, loads in full. Guide.
• National Geographic: metered, loads in full. Guide.
• Times Higher Education: metered, loads in full. Guide.
• Inside Higher Ed: metered, loads in full. Guide.
• Popular Mechanics, including Pop Mech Pro stories: metered, loads in full. Guide.
• Nautilus: metered science magazine, loads in full. Guide.
• Tes (Times Educational Supplement): subscriber-gated magazine, loads in full. Guide.

Recipes

• NYT Cooking and America's Test Kitchen: recipe and review pages load in full, even though NYT news articles do not. Guide.

Platforms

• Medium, including member-only stories and custom-domain publications: loads in full. Guide.

Also tested and working, not yet tagged on the home page

These loaded in full in our tests but are regional, niche or non-English, so they are not on the home page list: NZZ (Switzerland), Corriere della Sera (Italy), The Straits Times (Singapore), Philosophy Now, the Boulder Daily Camera, Finance & Commerce, the McClatchy Centre Daily Times and the Newsquest and Iliffe local weeklies. Nature's free news stories load in full, but its research papers are only available where the journal has made them open access, so it is not listed either. The Hindu moved onto the home page list on 2 October 2026. The Greeley Tribune returned a full article in one test and a preview in another, so it is not listed.

What does not work

For completeness, the well-known titles the reader cannot open: The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, Bloomberg, The Economist, Barron's, The Atlantic, Forbes and The Telegraph. Our 28 September 2026 tests added more to the list: Reuters, the Gannett/USA Today Network local papers (a few requests get through, but most are blocked, so they are not listed), The Information, Lloyd's List, Project Syndicate, Law360, The Baltimore Sun, Caixin Global, Broadcast, Compact, Condé Nast Traveler, The Critic, the Orlando Sentinel, The Dispatch, World Politics Review, Science, The Grocer, DC Thomson's Courier, The Caravan, the Bangkok Post, Automotive News, Talking Points Memo, News Corp Australia's titles, the Belfast Telegraph, Seeking Alpha and National Review all block the reader, and The Free Press, The Bulwark, 404 Media and The Chronicle of Higher Education serve only short teasers. Our post on sites that cannot be bypassed explains why and lists the legitimate free routes to each, and metered versus hard paywalls explains the technical difference.

How often is this list updated?

Publishers change their paywalls without notice. We re-test the supported list periodically and update the home page and this post when a site changes category. If a site listed here stops working for you, it has probably added bot protection; try again later and check back here.