If your job isn’t to inform people in a way that will help them, then I don’t really understand what your job is.” Late last ...

Marisa Kabas is an independent journalist who runs a newsletter called The Handbasket. She broke down how she built and grew ...

When The Washington Post ran its first piece on the federal funding freeze last week, its reporters gave credit where it was due: It was independent journalist Marisa Kabas who had broken the story.

First word of the Trump administration’s since-rescinded order to freeze spending on federal loans and grants came not from a major news organization, but from a woman working alone in her Brooklyn ap ...

Independent journalist Marisa Kabas recently broke a major White House scoop. Kabas publishes her own newsletter, called The Handbasket, on Beehiiv. She broke down how she built and is growing her ...

Marisa Kabas’s scoop this past week was a key moment for a growing cadre of journalists who work independently to gather and analyse news and market themselves as brands. Many are refugees from ...

The Briefing is compiled by Pew Research Center staff, including Naomi Forman-Katz, Jacob Liedke, Sarah Naseer, Christopher ...