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

Oct 24, 2023 · I’m Marisa Kabas, a Brooklyn-based independent writer and reporter. After watching the journalism infrastructure crumble over the last decade, I decided that I needed to have a place where I could share my work and thoughts no matter what.

Feb 2, 2025 · Marisa Kabas’ scoop this past week was a key moment for a growing cadre of journalists who work independently to gather and analyze news and market themselves as brands. Many are refugees from legacy outlets while others are scrappy newcomers like Kabas, who found traditional career paths unappealing or out of reach.

4 days ago · Marisa Kabas is an independent journalist who runs a newsletter called The Handbasket. She broke down how she built and grew her newsletter business.

Feb 3, 2025 · 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.. Kabas started her newsletter The Handbasket as a Substack in 2022. (As in “to hell in a handbasket.”) The newsletter, now hosted on Beehiiv, became her full-time job a …

I'm a New York-based journalist and activist. By day, I work as an Editorial Campaigns Director at Purpose, and on the side I continue my career as a writer. My work has appeared on NBC Think, GQ, Rolling Stone, and Glamour. I was a sex & life reporter and editor at Fusion, and before that, a lifestyle staff writer the Daily Dot.

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I’m Marisa Kabas, a Brooklyn-based independent writer and reporter. After watching the journalism infrastructure crumble over the last decade, I decided that I needed to have a place where I could share my work and thoughts no matter what. Thus, The Handbasket was born.

Click to read LEFT SUBSTACK—FIND ME AT WWW.THEHANDBASKET.CO, by Marisa Kabas, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers. The Handbasket is 100% independent journalism by writer and reporter Marisa Kabas.