Marisa Kabas is an independent journalist who runs a newsletter called The Handbasket. She broke down how she built and grew ...

“Despite the massive growth of independent journalism, there’s still this idea that news is only “real” once it’s confirmed by massive corporate outlets. After all, could one woman with absolutely ...

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.

A lot about the world feels dark right now. We’re reeling from a turbulent presidential race. Processing an attempted ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kabas has her own website, the Handbasket, but to give the story wider visibility, she posted a screen shot of the memo on the social media site Bluesky. Then she waited. Her stomach was in knots.