Media, Journos, Authors, Bloggers Starter Pack
Whether you're looking for fearless investigative journalism, breaking news, media experts or great authors this list will help you cut through the noise and access reliable sources. (Currently being compiled not complete)
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@icarszoey.bsky.social
@davidfrum.bsky.social
Staff writer for the Atlantic. Host of the David Frum Show webcast. Formerly ... quite a lot of things. Washington DC and Wellington, Ontario. Reach me via Producer@TheDavidFrumShow.com DMs open to followers
@amysiskind.bsky.social
Activist, and author of @TheWeeklyList & podcast. Subscribe: https://open.substack.com/pub/theweeklylistreturns
@nateraymond.bsky.social
Reuters reporter in Boston covering the federal judiciary and major litigation. Alaska expat. Email: nate.raymond@tr.com
@hunterw.bsky.social
Investigative Reporter @ TPM | Author | Words In: The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, New York Magazine, The Atlantic Send me a secure message on Signal: hunter.07 https://linktr.ee/hunter_walker
@davidleavitt.bsky.social
Award-Winning Multimedia Journalist. Bylines: CBS, AXS, Yahoo, Examiner, etc. I love #Games, #Lotr, #StarWars, and #StarTrek. Casual #MTG #TTRPG, & #Boardgames player. Work w/me: DavidLeavitt@gmail.com https://linktr.ee/david_leavitt
@jillianmhurley.bsky.social
Award-winning DocumentaryFilmmaker, Activist & Possibility Wizard. Formerly ABC & CBS news. Also known as “that woman.” 💅 #Filmsky #NoKings #BLM Same handle at other places. 🦋🐳🦖 https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/americonned
@rolandsmartin.bsky.social
@sethabramson.bsky.social
Journalist, lawyer, NYT-bestselling Trump and Musk biographer, songwriter (Hounds), former CNN and BBC analyst, poet, retired journalism professor. 👤: sethabramson.net/bio ⚖️: sethabramson.substack.com 🕹: retrostack.substack.com 🎶: houndsmusic.substack.com
@tristansnell.bsky.social
Lawyer, commentator, fighter for democracy. Prosecuted Trump University @ NY AG. #NAFO Fella. Author of Taking Down Trump. Host of the Tristan Snell Show on Apple and Spotify. Substack - tristansnell.com
@kamccudden.bsky.social
VP Editorial for @freedom.press, Managing Editor for @pressfreedomtracker.us, documenting aggressions against journalists in the US. Also a journalist: frmrly St. Pete, ATX, KC, Geneva, now NYC. J-School: Mizzou x2. Puppers: That's Aoife_the_pomapoo
@clarissaleon.bsky.social
🇨🇴 DocumentedNY.com Deputy Editor. We cover NYC immigrants + immigration in Spanish, Chinese and Haitian Creole. I appreciate a good coffee + good read. (@documentedny.bsky.social)
@pdxeleven.bsky.social
Co-Founder of Eleven Films and The Dangerous Ones podcast. Pissed off Enemy From Within 🌊 Don’t DM me. I don’t want to fuck you. 📺 YouTube: YouTube.com/@dangerousones ✍️ Substack: www.tealandorangereport.com
@glennkirschner.bsky.social
Former 30-year federal prosecutor. Army vet. Rule of law guy. 100% independent. YouTube.com/glennkirschner2 Patreon.com/glennkirschner
@davidcorn.bsky.social
Washington bureau chief, Mother Jones. MSNBC commentator. Author of AMERICAN PSYCHOSIS and other NYT bestsellers. On Signal: DavidCorn.99
@alexianortonjones.bsky.social
Award Winning Poet, Writer, Activist, Grandaughter of W.W. Norton & Co. Independent Publishers. 📚 Determined to tell the true story of why my mother Anne Norton Jones disappeared in 1977. MLK Assassination Survivor, Orphan Disease Patient, medium.com
@tammybleck.bsky.social
Writer, reader, HuffPo contributor, resister, fierce equal rights advocate, defender of innocents, climate activist, marketing maven, social media guru, cat herder, dog lover, espresso drinker, legend in my own mind, and overall sassy broad.
@brithewebguy.bsky.social
Senior copywriter | #GrumpyGrammarGuru | TKD black belt | Ex-@chicagotribune | Wrote "the single greatest tweet on the internet" @esquire http://bit.ly/1WFotbb
@jbendery.bsky.social
I report on Congress, the White House + political campaigns for HuffPost. President emeritus of the Washington Press Club Foundation. Mama. 🏳️🌈 Tips: jen.bendery@huffpost.com / jbendery@proton.me Signal: jbendery.41
@onestpress.onestnetwork.com
Foreign Affairs Journalist | Former UN Diplomat | Real-time #ACTUALNEWS 🇺🇸 & 🌎 News Briefing (M, W, F) 🇨🇦 Weekly Recap (SAT) ☀️ SUN Edition - NO politics 📧: www.onestnetwork.com/newsletter WATCH Weekly Recap (SUN 8p ET): https://youtube.com/@onestnetwork
@davidkski.bsky.social
Investigative reporter @ Bloomberg/Businessweek Father, writer, skater, paddler, baker, raconteur, rabble-rouser & SuperTaster https://tinyurl.com/mrftjkzf dkocieniewsk@bloomberg.net Encrypted: linemate@protonmail.com
@briantylercohen.bsky.social
Political commentary. Over 3 billion views on YouTube. #1 NYT bestselling author. Past: MSNBC https://linktr.ee/briantylercohen
@anniewaldman.bsky.social
Covering health care @ProPublica. Signal: 347-549-0332. Email: annie.waldman@propublica.org. (Also #COYS)
@michaeljstern.bsky.social
USA Today opinion columnist. Also in: Chicago Tribune; Los Angeles Times; Guardian; Boston Globe; HuffPost; Hill; NY Daily News, etc. Former federal prosecutor, state prosecutor, and defense attorney for indigent defendants. 🌊 🏳️🌈 #LGBT
@calltoactivism.bsky.social
Founded to stand up to Trump and the GOP. Legal analysis & news the media is missing.
@mariaressa.bsky.social
@dworkin.bsky.social
Dworkin Report. Journalist. Investigator. Author. Musician. https://www.dworkinsubstack.com/
@craigunger.bsky.social
NYT bestselling author of 6 books on the GOP’s assault on democracy, including American Kompromat. Apple Books says my latest,Den of Spies, about the 1980 October Surprise, is "the scariest political thriller you've ever read." www.craigunger.com.
@mikegalsworthy.bsky.social
Chair of European Movement UK. 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 Founder of the Bylines Network. Founder of Scientists for EU. Lover of science, Europe and whisky. 🥃
@robertcooper-us.bsky.social
Enjoyed a long career as a bilingual community advocate. Gay father of five wonderful kids. Lifelong progressive. Love to cook and travel.
@joncooper-us.bsky.social
Democratic strategist. Formerly Long Island Campaign Chair for Barack Obama; Majority Leader of the Suffolk County Legislature. Gay dad of five terrific kids. Writer and producer of “Echoes of the Unknown” podcast. Coffee addict. New York/Florida.
@ericmgarcia.bsky.social
Washington Bureau chief at The Independent, MSNBC Columnist. Author: We’re Not Broken. Tar Heel. He/Him Eric.garcia@the-independent.com
@juliametraux.bsky.social
Disability Reporter @ Mother Jones • jmetraux@motherjones.com • She/her • Berkeley Journalism alum • Signal: @juliametraux.49 Author page: https://www.motherjones.com/author/julia-metraux/ Free monthly newsletter: bit.ly/3Ee9lRO
@indiawilloughby.bsky.social
Broadcaster. Woman Of Year nom. Celeb Big Bro. Kindness Extremist. Trans. Everything Twitter and the UK hates. Rent Free In A Billionaire’s Head. Keighley Cougars 🏳️⚧️💚
@peterstefanovic.bsky.social
Lawyer, Filmmaker, Big Issue top 100 Changemaker 2024, CEO CAMPAIGN FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE https://www.cfsj.co.uk/
@elsaramononair.bsky.social
Past: FOX10Phoenix; NBCDFW; ABC7; News4WOAI; KCALNews Anchor/Reporter. Now: KNXNews 97.1 FM Anchor. #AutismAdvocate. #ADHD. Twitter Expat 🇺🇸
@kymgrosso.bsky.social
Autism Mom/Advocate USA Today Bestselling Author Immortals of New Orleans Beach Lover 💙 📚🎬 😎🌊🐬🐋🤙
@iamsophianelson.bsky.social
Award winning non-fiction author. Award-Winning Journalist @essence. Global speaker @keppler. Columnist for @AJC & @Forbes. Member AKA1908.
@feliciae.bsky.social
Writer/Blogger /Social Justice & Human Rights Strategist just trying to do my part to bring justice, peace and more love in this old world.
@sobukira.bsky.social
The UK’s first Child Rights journalist. Member of the Children and Families Truth Commission. Swimmer.
@nprjoeshapiro.bsky.social
NPR Correspondent/Investigations Unit, author of NO PITY: People With Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement. Contact: jshapiro@npr.org or (encrypted) Shapirojoe@proton.me
@ellenychang.bsky.social
Freelance journalist writing about stocks, personal finance, banking, tech and energy. Formerly at TheStreet. Proud Purdue grad and lover of rescue animals and random acts of kindness. Houstonian.
@maiasz.bsky.social
Contributing Opinion Writer, NY Times. Author: Undoing Drugs, Unbroken Brain, Help At Any Cost; Co-auth: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog & Born for Love (w/ Bruce D. Perry). Addiction, autism, neuroscience, troubled-teen industry, harm reduction, cats.
@billiejsweeney.bsky.social
Editor, free expression advocate, trans woman. She/her. wesweeney.com
@icarszoey.bsky.social
Founder - International Coalition Against Restraint and Seclusion (ICARS). Child Rights, Human Rights & Disability Rights. Views and typos my own. @againstrestraint.com 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 No DM's unless I know you or it is advocacy related