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. 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.

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.
• Daily Mail: no paywall; the reader gives you a clean, ad-free version. Guide.

Canadian newspapers

• The Globe and Mail: metered, loads in full. Guide.
• National Post and the Postmedia papers: metered, load 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.
• New York Magazine, including Intelligencer, Vulture and The Cut: metered, loads in full. Guide.
• Slate: metered, loads in full. Guide.
• Time: metered, loads in full. Guide.

Business magazines

• Fortune: metered, loads in full. Guide.
• Business Insider: freemium with subscriber-only stories, 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.

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.

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 or non-English, so they are not on the home page list: NZZ (Switzerland), Corriere della Sera (Italy), The Hindu (India), The Straits Times (Singapore).

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 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.