Alternative newsweeklies published articles that the mainstream media didn't — from local gossip to political corruption. But by the early aughts, many had disappeared. Coyote, a new indie site for the Bay Area, seeks to capture the same spirit. Co-founder Emma Silvers writes about what that means to her: More voices in the conversation, pushback against the narratives that preserve the status quo, and telling stories that other papers wouldn't touch.
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Alt-Weeklies
Alternative newsweeklies launched careers, called out corruption, and made journalism fun. Can we bring that energy back?
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America's newsrooms are in retreat from diversity, equity and inclusion, Hanaa' Tameez writes for Nieman Lab. She reports on how news organizations have "moved on" from race reporting projects, shuttered diversity- and identity-related products, and reduced their presences at events like the National Association for Black Journalists (NABJ) and National Association for Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ) conferences.
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From reckoning to retreat: Journalism’s DEI efforts are in decline
Diversity-related newsroom jobs haven
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Columnist Philip Bump left the Washington Post last month after accepting a buyout. For his Pbump blog, he writes about power — who has it and is using it responsibly and how to preserve your own — and why he is not a fan of Twitter/X or Substack. "There’s value to debate and conversation, of course, but that isn’t what’s fostered on Twitter or (in my limited experience) on Substack. Instead, conversation occasionally glimmers through a waterfall of bad-faith, uninformed trolls and attacks. It’s an effort to play a college football game after the crowd has stormed the field."
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The power we use and the power we give
There was an article posted recently that walked well-worn terrain, arguing for people not to abandon Twitter but, instead, to engage with it. Ther...
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Just two more days to vote for our SXSW panels, and then we'll stop going on about them until next March 🤞. Cast your votes to see @Mike McCue talking to Rudy Fraser of Blacksky about community building, and Patreon's Jack Conte about creator independence.
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6.3K Posts, 672 Following, 127K Followers · crypto researcher & critic, software engineer, wikipedian • @web3isgreat@indieweb.social creator •...
 ) is one of the most interesting tech critics out there, covering subjects like crypto industry spending in politics, Web3, and the tech industry as a whole with integrity and (sometimes) optimism. She spoke to NiemanLab about her Follow the Crypto site, her love of RSS, migrating from Substack to [@ghost](
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 ), and more. At the second and third links find her DotSocial conversation with @Mike McCue and an extract from her Fediverse House presentation at last year's SXSW.
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Independent journalist Molly White knows how to follow the memecoin
The cryptocurrency and tech newsletter Citation Needed is pay-what-you-want. White currently has about 29,000 subscribers including about 2,400 pai...
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Entering a New Phase of the Web, with Citation Needed’s Molly White
Molly White is a leading cryptocurrency critic, but get to know her and you’ll see she’s anything but cynical. In fact, this researcher, writer...
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Molly White's Call to Action
Recorded live at the Fediverse House at SXSW 2025, researcher, writer and software engineer Molly White argues it’s time to reclaim the web: move...
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