With that money, Substack was able to start giving paid deals to writers to entice them from their jobs, to come over to Substack and write there. Effectively, what happened is that they peeled off ...

Joy Reid, Jim Acosta and several other prominent media figures left corporate or mainstream positions to launch independent, ...

Something curious happened while we were mourning journalism’s decline: it was quietly reinventing itself. Not through grand reforms or billion-dollar bailouts, nor through scribes deciding to all ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Jane Ferguson has won awards for unflinching reporting from dangerous lands including Afghanistan, Somalia and Yemen. So she was unlikely to be intimidated by seeking financing for a ...

The former head of 538, shuttered last year by ABC News, is building a new media outlet aimed at recapturing the defunct polling news site’s audience and building the kind of serious data journalism ...

Writing about the failure of patron-supported journalism is itself a kind of confession. It hasn’t worked for me, and I struggle to weigh my guilt around that (should have worked harder!) against what ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. A few years ago, Liz Kelly Nelson was the vice president of Vox and found herself holding the same exit interviews over and over ...

Former first son Hunter Biden unloaded on CNN anchor Jake Tapper over what he called “poor journalism” that included calling Biden a “scumbag” and what he felt was overly-personal vitriol in the ...