YouTube Don’t Know Me

Written By Jared Mitchell

What are your favorite YouTube channels? I’m genuinely asking.

A couple years ago, I turned off all forms of data tracking so that YouTube (and Google) wouldn’t algorithmically feed me content that I had no interest in. But over time, I found a lot of YouTube channels that I found to be consistent in the quality of their content.

In this list, I have compiled 46 YouTube channels that I trust to provide me with quality information about information science, politics, the economy, culture, and sports. But I don’t think it’s exhaustive, and I’m really curious which YouTube channels my friends and neighbors like to watch/listen to.

I hope you enjoy reviewing this list of resources and encourage you to send me some of your favorites too if I left anything out. What are your favorite Youtube channels?

95.7 The Game—YouTube. (n.d.). Retrieved April 21, 2025, from https://www.youtube.com/957thegame

ABC News—YouTube. (n.d.). https://www.youtube.com/@ABCNews

Al Jazeera English—YouTube. (n.d.). Retrieved May 8, 2025, from https://www.youtube.com/@aljazeeraenglish

BBC News—YouTube. (n.d.). https://www.youtube.com/@BBCNews

Berkeleyside—YouTube. (n.d.). Retrieved May 8, 2025, from https://www.youtube.com/@berkeleyside

Black Liberation Media—YouTube. (n.d.). Retrieved April 22, 2025, from https://www.youtube.com/@BlackLiberationMedia

CBS News—YouTube. (n.d.). Retrieved May 8, 2025, from https://www.youtube.com/@CBSNews

Commonwealth Club World Affairs (CCWA)—YouTube. (n.d.). YouTube. Retrieved April 21, 2025, from https://www.youtube.com/@commonwealthclubworldaffairs

C-SPAN - YouTube. (n.d.). Retrieved May 8, 2025, from https://www.youtube.com/@CSPAN

Curtiss King TV - YouTube. (n.d.). Retrieved May 8, 2025, from https://www.youtube.com/@CurtissKingTV

Democracy Now! - YouTube. (n.d.). YouTube. Retrieved April 30, 2025, from https://www.youtube.com/democracynow

Effective Immediately—YouTube. (n.d.). [Video recording]. Retrieved May 8, 2025, from https://www.youtube.com/@effectiveimmediatelylive

F.D Signifier—YouTube. (n.d.). Retrieved May 8, 2025, from https://www.youtube.com/@FDSignifire

Financial Times—YouTube. (n.d.). Retrieved May 8, 2025, from https://www.youtube.com/@FinancialTimes

Grits & Eggs Podcast—YouTube. (n.d.). YouTube. Retrieved March 30, 2025, from https://www.youtube.com/@GritsAndEggsPodcast

HipHopDX  - YouTube. (n.d.). [Video recording]. Retrieved May 8, 2025, from https://www.youtube.com/@hiphopdx

Islandora Foundation—YouTube. (n.d.). Retrieved April 6, 2025, from https://www.youtube.com/@islandorafoundation9224

JayBlac—YouTube. (n.d.). Retrieved May 8, 2025, from https://www.youtube.com/@jayblac7648

KQED - YouTube. (n.d.). Retrieved May 8, 2025, from https://www.youtube.com/@kqed

LastWeekTonight—YouTube. (n.d.). YouTube. Retrieved May 8, 2025, from https://www.youtube.com/@LastWeekTonight

Late Night with Seth Meyers—YouTube. (n.d.). YouTube. Retrieved March 30, 2025, from https://www.youtube.com/@LateNightSeth

Memorias de Pez—YouTube. (n.d.). Retrieved April 2, 2025, from https://www.youtube.com/@MemoriasDePez

Michelle Obama—YouTube. (n.d.). Retrieved May 8, 2025, from https://www.youtube.com/@michelleobama

Mind the Game—YouTube. (n.d.). [Video recording]. Retrieved May 8, 2025, from https://www.youtube.com/@MindTheGamePodcast

MSNBC - YouTube. (n.d.). Retrieved March 31, 2025, from https://www.youtube.com/@msnbc

Native Land Pod—YouTube. (n.d.). YouTube. Retrieved April 30, 2025, from https://www.youtube.com/@NativeLandPod

NBC Sports Bay Area & California—YouTube. (n.d.). Retrieved May 8, 2025, from https://www.youtube.com/@NBCSAuthentic

New York Times Podcasts—YouTube. (n.d.). Retrieved March 31, 2025, from https://www.youtube.com/@NYTPodcasts

Nope Brigade | Ph.D. Candidate—YouTube. (n.d.). Retrieved April 30, 2025, from https://www.youtube.com/@nopebrigade

NPR - YouTube. (n.d.). Retrieved May 8, 2025, from https://www.youtube.com/@NPR

PBS - YouTube. (n.d.). Retrieved May 8, 2025, from https://www.youtube.com/@PBS

Pivot with Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway—YouTube. (n.d.). Retrieved March 31, 2025, from https://www.youtube.com/@pivot

Pod Save America—YouTube. (n.d.). Retrieved May 8, 2025, from https://www.youtube.com/@podsaveamerica

Pod Save the World—YouTube. (n.d.). Retrieved May 8, 2025, from https://www.youtube.com/@podsavetheworld

POLITICO - YouTube. (n.d.). Retrieved May 8, 2025, from https://www.youtube.com/@POLITICO

Proximity Media—YouTube. (n.d.). Retrieved April 10, 2025, from https://www.youtube.com/@proximity-media

San Francisco Chronicle—YouTube. (n.d.). Retrieved May 8, 2025, from https://www.youtube.com/@SFChronicle

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art—YouTube. (n.d.). Retrieved May 8, 2025, from https://www.youtube.com/@sfmoma

SNCC LEGACY PROJECT - YouTube. (n.d.). YouTube. Retrieved May 8, 2025, from https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6ntlvgtEylFP0G9um87ktQ

StarTalk—YouTube. (n.d.). YouTube. Retrieved May 8, 2025, from https://www.youtube.com/@StarTalk

The Bulwark—YouTube. (n.d.). YouTube. Retrieved March 30, 2025, from https://www.youtube.com/@bulwarkmedia

The Company Man—YouTube. (n.d.). YouTube. Retrieved May 8, 2025, from https://www.youtube.com/@TheCompanyMan

The Daily Californian—YouTube. (n.d.). YouTube. Retrieved May 8, 2025, from https://www.youtube.com/@thedailycal

The Oaklandside—YouTube. (n.d.). Retrieved May 8, 2025, from https://www.youtube.com/@oaklandside

The Reactors’ Guild—YouTube. (n.d.). [Video recording]. Retrieved May 8, 2025, from https://www.youtube.com/@TheReactorsGuild

UC Berkeley Library—YouTube. (n.d.). YouTube. Retrieved May 8, 2025, from https://www.youtube.com/@UCBerkeleyLib

Wikimedia Foundation—YouTube. (n.d.). Retrieved April 6, 2025, from https://www.youtube.com/@TheWikimediaFoundation

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