The Pennsylvania Independent
The Pennsylvania Independent is a Pennsylvania-focused digital news outlet covering state politics, policy, and government.
Founded
2022The Pennsylvania Independent is a Pennsylvania-focused digital news outlet covering state politics, policy, and government.
The Pennsylvania Independent is a digital news publication covering Pennsylvania state politics, policy, and government for a Pennsylvania readership. Coverage spans issue areas including politics, elections, economy, education, health care, reproductive rights, and infrastructure, published as online articles with a reader newsletter.
The publication is free to read and supported by donations and political-issue advertising. It is a project of American Independent Media, a 501(c)(4) organization, and is part of a network of state-level outlets launched in 2022 alongside similar state Independents.
The Pennsylvania Independent competes for Pennsylvania readers with established state outlets such as Spotlight PA, the Pennsylvania Capital-Star, PennLive/The Patriot-News, City & State Pennsylvania, and the Philadelphia Inquirer. The nonprofit and digital-native state-news segment in Pennsylvania has grown as traditional newspaper staffing has declined.
Reader-supported and advertising-funded nonprofit state newsrooms operate in a market where audience attention and donor funding are contested, and where state-level policy coverage remains a persistent demand that larger national outlets do not serve directly.
The Pennsylvania Independent concentrates exclusively on Pennsylvania state politics, policy, and government, giving it a tighter state-level focus than general-interest national outlets. It publishes across many issue areas — politics, elections, economy, education, health care, reproductive rights, and infrastructure — on a single state-focused site with a free newsletter.
As a project of American Independent Media within a network of state Independents, it shares editorial resources, writers, and distribution with sister state outlets, and reaches readers through online articles, print editions, and paid social promotion.