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The first thing of the Trump administration has not been the freezing of spending on loans and federal scholarships from a major news organization, but from a woman working alone in her apartment in Brooklyn.
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Last week, Scope Marissa Kabas was a major moment for the increasing cadres of journalists who work independently to collect news, analyze and market it as trademarks. Many refugees are old ports while others are new coming like Kabas, who have found traditional professional paths that are not attractive or far -fetched.
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“This week was changing professionally,” Kabas said in an interview. “In a sense, my job changed overnight.”
She was sitting on her kitchen table last Monday, where she was traveling through emails on her laptop, when she sent a copy of a note to announce the freezing sent by the administration and budget office. Kabas has its own website, The Handbasket, but to give the story a broader view, it has published a screenshot of the memo on the social networking site Bluesky.
Then I waited.
Her stomach was in a knot. He calmed down herself on a picnic on a candle night. Despite her belief in the independent press – and her work – she realized this for many, the news becomes “real” only when they appear in a main port. Three hours later, the Washington Post published its story, with a cap for Kabas.
The guidance caused a noise that the administration followed its request two days.
Rolling around jobs until I found them
Kabbas, 37, kicks many journalism and advertising functions for ports such as MSNBC.com, Huffington Post and New Republic. She started its website in 2022 in the first place for personal writing and decided to go “Every” with the press next year.
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She said that the advantage of going alone is to “write about the things I care about.” “I do not have to work at tasks given to me that I do not care about them.” The downside is that it is alone, dependent on its hustle.
Kabas wrote about the former flag George Santos, the raid in a weekly newspaper in Kansas and Elon Musk, although many of her writings were articles instead of the reported work.
Like many in the independent world of journalism, it does not hide its views. I wrote that the OMB memo was “a truly unavailable document that appears to be the most trivial 4thn sticker in the world.”
“I got a situation, she has a personality,” said Greg Mono, a professor of journalism at the University of Siraches. “I think the situation and the personality help these independent journalists communicate with readers and potential sources.”
Independent journalists make their mark in a variety of topics
A wide range of independent journalists made their fingerprints, often working on publishing platforms like Prestack and Beehiiv.
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Casey Newton, the former editor of The Verge, looks at the world of technology on the platform, and this week urged people concern about Deepseek from artificial intelligence to take “some deep, deep breaths”. Molly Knight’s The Long Game is smartly writing about sport and even admitting its panels, such as recently reconsidering its prediction that Texas Rangers will repeat as the US League champions.
Oliver Darcy CNN left the news and a comment on the media on his own website. Two former journalists in the Washington Post established their own stores: The opinion writer Jennifer Robin, the contradictory, includes the slogan of the description “not owned by anyone”, and the technology writer Taylor Lorenz’s user broke his own news last week on the conservative effects of Kandis Owens. New project.
A few days ago, CNN Jim Acosta announced that he was creating a store in Stemback after quitting the network instead of accepting the transportation to the opening of time in the middle of the night.
“Independent press is now the way forward,” Dan was instead, former CBS news anchor, and perhaps ancient school journalist, on Facebook on Thursday. “Unfortunately, we can no longer rely on the old media for strong accountability.”
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Expand the identification of an independent journalist on a larger scale, and you can include the explosive world of podcasts, many of which played a major role in the presidential election, and Tiktok or YouTube Sefferens who comment on the news.
“There is something that fills this gap,” said Jeremy Lito, a professor of journalism at Lihayi University. “You will be needed.”
How much space is for reporters and who can you trust it?
It is exciting for those looking for various voices and new sounds, especially as the old media fall behind the audience. This danger comes to know who trusts in a world where one person often plays the role of the reporter, editor, sales manager and business manager.
This is especially important with urgent news. Who cuts angles, or re -fills the things they see online without the criteria imposed by a traditional news institution?
Munno is skeptical of the amount of support on the market.
“I don’t think the consumer appetite for news is high enough to support a deep group of independent journalists who will be able to create an audience and earn a living,” he said.
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Kabas has gathered together what she considered a model journalist – translation: modest – before last week. Its profits are through the hand basket through subscribers who pay $ 8 per month or $ 80 annually. This week alone, she jumped from 800 paid subscribers to about 1500.
Her script makes her rethink the purpose of her work, and that the urgent need now is to deepen how to change how the country changes as a result of its new government. She is even considering employing another correspondent for help.
“I moved from my time a lot, sitting with my thoughts and writing from a personal perspective to an urgent news correspondent,” Kabas said. “They are very different skills.”
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David Boder writes about the AP media and entertainment intersection. Follow it on http://x.com/dbauder and https://bsky.app/profile/dbauder.bsky.social.
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