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

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 ...

Her stomach was in knots. She calmed herself with a walk on a frigid night. Despite her belief in independent journalism — ...

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), the primary U.S. nonprofit fighting child sexual exploitation ...

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.

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Independent journalism is on the rise as traditional media shifts. Journalists like Marisa Kabas, who broke a story on a government spending freeze, are thriving in this new environment. Although ...

Amid the Trump administration's abrupt, wide-scale freeze on federal funding, states are reporting that they've lost access ...

Marisa Kabas’ scoop this past week was a key moment for a growing cadre of journalists who work independently to gather and ...

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 ...