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April 6, 2026
V Spehar built a news business from under a desk. Now they’re a creator journalism pioneer.
It was technology and culture reporter Taylor Lorenz who first told news creator Vitus “V” Spehar to think of themselves as a journalist. It was 2022 and Spehar — the 43-year-old best known for the...
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April 2, 2026
Amid internal uncertainty, the VTDigger’s new union contract guarantees journalists’ input on AI use
After a year of negotiating, the VTDigger Guild ratified its second-ever union contract on April 1 with VTDigger, the nonprofit news outlet covering Vermont. The new four-year agreement guarantees ...
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March 24, 2026
Young people want their news to be more fun, a new report says
In the news industry, there’s no shortage of data that says the same thing: young adults and older adults get their news in different ways. While older adults (age 55 and up) are mostly locked in o...
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March 23, 2026
Colombian college student Gabriela Alonso Jaramillo explains her country’s politics to the apolitical
In Colombia, Gabriela Alonso Jaramillo is an anomaly. In a country where polarization is rising and youth voter turnout is low, she says she’s the only one in her group of friends who cares about l...
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March 11, 2026
With Newpress, Iz and Johnny Harris incubate video journalism for the creator era
In 2020, after five years at Vox, journalist Johnny Harris left to start his own YouTube channel. Today, the channel he built with his wife Iz, featuring “videos that help you better understand the...
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March 2, 2026
After Mexico’s most-wanted cartel leader was killed, OSINT helped fuel both clarity and confusion online
When Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes, the founder of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel and Mexico’s most wanted drug lord, was killed in a military operation in the state of Jalisco the morn...
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February 23, 2026
Bostopia’s Evan George serves Boston daily news from a lefty perspective
Lots of us took up quirky hobbies while we were shut in at home during the pandemic. Evan George’s: Delivering Boston local news in 60 seconds or less. As a Massachusetts native living in Boston, G...
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February 19, 2026
Polymarket says “journalism is better when it’s backed by live markets”
Predictions market Polymarket and Substack are now “exclusive,” the companies announced. And the relationship getting serious is raising a few eyebrows. On Wednesday, Substack announced the new fea...
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February 13, 2026
Washington Post layoffs disproportionately affected union members of color, preliminary Guild data shows
When The Washington Post laid off more than a third of its employees on February 4, the paper’s foundation was shaken. The cuts were wide-ranging, shuttering the sports desk right before the Winter...
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February 11, 2026
Most Americans don’t pay for news and don’t think they need to
For a new report released Wednesday, the Pew Research Center surveyed 3,560 U.S. adults in December 2025 about their relationship to the news and how they perceive its value in everyday life. Pew a...
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February 10, 2026
New York Magazine revives classified ads with a modern twist
My favorite black hole on the internet is Facebook Marketplace. As a lover of Stuff, I browse almost daily to see the things people in the greater Boston area want to part with. I love to look at t...
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January 21, 2026
“Does this channel have more juice in it?” YouTuber J.J. McCullough on a “sustainable” life as a news creator
When J.J. McCullough first started making YouTube videos in 2015, he was 31, and worried he was too old to break through on an already saturated platform. McCullough had lost his job as a political...
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January 13, 2026
Did you try to cancel your New York Times subscription? You may be able to get paid
Canceling a news subscription has long been a multipronged nightmare. But some New York-based news consumers might qualify for a bag of coffee’s worth of relief. The New York Times has reached a se...
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