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 ...

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

The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) was ordered to erase any mention of trans youth from ...

The Trump administration is trying to kill off another independent federal agency in apparent disregard of the law.

Independent journalists live outside the mainstream and their numbers are growing. They have just had a big moment: a woman ...

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children said it would be removing all references to transgender people from its public materials.

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.

Many legal experts say the pause is an illegal impoundment and compromises Congress’s constitutional “power of the purse.” ...

Enshrined in the Constitution is the ability of Congress to pass laws that direct the executive branch to disburse funding as ...

The Briefing is compiled by Pew Research Center staff, including Naomi Forman-Katz, Jacob Liedke, Sarah Naseer, Christopher ...

Independent journalism is on the rise as traditional media shifts. Journalists like Marisa Kabas, who broke a story on a government spending freeze, are thriving in this new environment. Although ...

Marisa Kabas’ scoop this past week was a key moment for a growing cadre of journalists who work independently to gather and ...