Columbia Journalism Review5d
Q&A: Marisa Kabas on Scooping the World on the Federal Funding Freeze
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 ...
"This is code red": Trump's Project 2025 agenda comes for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
The Trump administration is trying to kill off another independent federal agency in apparent disregard of the law.
How a journalist used her newsletter to break the story about a White House plan to freeze federal grants — and how she's building a business
Marisa Kabas is an independent journalist who runs a newsletter called The Handbasket. She broke down how she built and grew ...
The Columbian1d
The power of independent journalism: From her Brooklyn apartment, she ‘scooped’ the nation’s media
First word of the Trump administration’s since-rescinded order to freeze spending on federal loans and grants came not from a major news organization, but from a woman working alone in her Brooklyn ap ...
Yahoo News4d
How a journalist used her newsletter to break the story about a White House plan to freeze federal grants — and how she's building a business
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 ...
Pew Research Center3d
The Briefing
The Briefing is compiled by Pew Research Center staff, including Naomi Forman-Katz, Jacob Liedke, Sarah Naseer, Christopher ...
AOL5d
How an independent journalist who broke a major White House scoop is growing her newsletter business — and why she left Substack
Everything changed for Marisa Kabas on January 27. Kabas shared the scoop first on Bluesky, a text-based platform and competitor to X. Some news outlets later picked up the story, increasing the ...