Sophie Culpepper

Every September since 2012, thousands of volunteers have come together around a shared goal: getting more Americans registered to vote. They’ve channeled attention and energy into a single day, dub...

Paying the rent on a reporter’s salary isn’t easy anywhere these days. But on the Outer Cape, it’s almost impossible. Massachusetts has some of the highest housing costs in the country. The problem...

The Guardian has started cross-posting its weekly food newsletter, “Feast,” to Substack, where it hopes to reach new audiences. This is an experiment, according to Press Gazette’s reporting; if Fea...

To say that the staff of Nieman Lab consume more news than the average American would be an understatement. And if you’re a Nieman Lab reader, chances are you’re a news junkie like us. Most of the ...

Another billionaire-backed news organization has announced ambitions to expand into the void created by The Washington Post’s layoffs. NOTUS, a nonprofit newsroom backed by Politico founder Robert ...

“Ok I have a wild suggestion👀” was the text I got from my boyfriend on Feb. 22. Dylan wanted us to attend a “carnival” featuring the journalist/documentarian/news creator Andrew Callaghan in Medfor...

What was widely recognized as a national tragedy was also a local one. When leadership at The Washington Post laid off more than 300 journalists last month, Post Local was among the hardest-hit sec...

Tampa Bay Times journalist Lauren Peace is a fan of her local bookshop, Book and Bottle, a “bookstore with wine and a wine shop with books” (and coffee!). At one of the store’s book club events, Pe...

“The New York Times is no longer a news company,” proclaims the caption of a chart posted on X Saturday summarizing how Times bundle subscribers have eclipsed news-only subscribers. The New York Ti...

Many publishers first noticed the complaints spike last summer. The subscriber whose weekly newspaper arrived five days late. The subscriber who received no issues for three weeks in a row, then th...

During a devastating week of news about news, you could easily have missed a new policy paper from the nonprofit Rebuild Local News. The report, released last Thursday, is a substantive, measured l...

The Washington Post newsroom, whose journalists have continued to deliver essential reporting in an unrelenting news cycle (not to mention one reporter being subject to an FBI raid), is expecting d...

On Wednesday morning, the FBI executed a search warrant on a Washington Post reporter’s home as part of a probe into a government worker accused of illegally retaining classified information. The r...

“This is, I think, the sixth time [I’ve] come here,” the woman’s public comment to the Corpus Christi City Council begins. She is wearing a full-body cockroach costume, antennae and all. “Last time...