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Positive news published daily since 1997, back when the idea sounded like a joke rather than a business model.
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Good News Network sits in Good News under Unwind, filed as coffee break.
About this category: Newsrooms with a constructive brief. Not a denial that the world is difficult, just a correction to a feed that only reports one direction.
Yes. Good News Network is free to use and needs no account.
No. You can use Good News Network without signing up for anything.
Yes. Good News Network works on phones as well as desktop browsers.
Yes, we file it as safe for work. It also works muted.
We file it as "Coffee break": Five to fifteen minutes of proper attention.
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.
Old photographs pinned to the exact street corner where they were taken, fading into the modern view behind.
The lolcat archive that taught the internet its first grammar, still posting captioned animals two decades later.
Every plant and animal anybody has photographed and posted, mapped, with a community that will identify your mystery beetle within hours.
Dress beatboxers in different outfits and each one adds a loop, building a full a cappella track by drag and drop.
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