Unwind
Good News
Newsrooms with a constructive brief. Not a denial that the world is difficult, just a correction to a feed that only reports one direction.
15 sites
A search engine that funds tree-planting projects with its profits and publishes regular reports showing where the money went.
A fortnightly digest of measurable global progress on disease, energy and conservation, with a source for every claim.
Good news with a nudge attached — every story arrives alongside something you could actually do about it.
Positive news published daily since 1997, back when the idea sounded like a joke rather than a business model.
Charts and datasets tracking long-run trends in health, income and violence, useful ammunition for pessimistic dinner parties.
A morning briefing of good stories, written for people who want a news habit that does not ruin breakfast.
A properly staffed magazine covering what is going right, funded by its readers rather than by outrage.
David Byrne's magazine about things that are demonstrably working somewhere, reported at length rather than as a listicle.
The newsroom that trains other newsrooms to cover responses instead of problems, with a searchable tracker of the results.
Constructive journalism collected from other outlets into one free feed, so somebody else does all the sifting.
Good news, funny pictures and a daily dose of animals, assembled with no interest whatsoever in what is trending.
Good news redrawn as illustrations by a designer who got tired of doomscrolling and built the feed he wanted instead.
A quarterly printed newspaper of good news and everyday heroes, illustrated throughout, with the archive online.
Five solutions-focused stories a day, from a team that has been running this beat since the mid-nineties.
Nonprofit solutions journalism on climate, housing and democracy — more sober than cheerful, but pointed the same way.
How we picked these
Every entry in Detour is hand-sorted rather than scraped: filed under one category, given one to three moods, and placed in a time band for how quickly it pays off. The practical facts — cost, sign-up, sound, device and whether it is safe at a desk — are recorded per site and shown on every card, so you can rule things out before you click.
Good News: questions
How many sites are in Good News?
15 sites, each hand-sorted by category, mood and how long it takes to pay off.
Which of these sites are free with no sign-up?
15 of the 15 are free and need no account. None of them are paid.
Do these sites work on a phone, and are they safe for work?
13 of 15 work on a phone; the rest are desktop only. 15 are safe for work and 15 work with the sound off.