Her stomach was in knots. She calmed herself with a walk on a frigid night. Despite her belief in independent journalism — and her own work — she recognized that to many, news only becomes “real” when ...

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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.

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 ...

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Everything changed for Marisa Kabas on January 27. The Brooklyn-based independent journalist broke a major White House story through her newsletter The Handbasket. She published the scoop on a ...

Late last week, I spoke with Kabas about her recent scoops, the challenges of going solo, and the evolving role of the press in today’s political climate. Our conversation has been edited for length ...

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 ...

We heard the shrieks for Shrek long before we entered the recently opened DreamWorks Land at Universal Orlando Resort. The place was buzzing with little tots. The make-believe trolls — Dopp ...

First word of the Trump administration's since-rescinded order to freeze spending on federal loans and grants came not from a major news organization, but from a woman working alone in her ...