Grateful to *Defector* for (again) sharing their annual report—useful not only for insight into how a small media business is run, but also for the description of a worker-led change process.

Defector Annual Report, September 2023 – August 2024 | Defector

Published on October 16, 2024 Purpose of this report This is the fourth year that Defector’s business team is publishing an annual report. Let us...

With the seasons changing, a reminder that there are times for growth and times for rest and you get to decide what time it is today:

everything changes

Latewood | everything changes

On the seasons of growth.

Grateful to Molly White for pointing out the legal precarity of freelance journalism. For most people, the law is more of a threat than a protector.

Citation Needed

I am my own legal department: the promise and peril of “just go independent”

Independent publishing is one important facet of the media ecosystem, and while I love it, I know it is not the path for everyone.

Beyond excited for Erin Kissane’s new venture. Not only is this work of such deep, fundamental importance, but Erin is exactly the person we want tackling it. And the fact that she’s doing this work in community—with us, not for us—is evidence of that:

wreckage/salvage

Into the wreck

What even are these systems in which we live and work and—stripping away the ideologies of what corporations or technologies cannot possibly be e...