Indie, Freelance, Talented Journos in SoCal
My favorite journalists and content creators in SoCal. From freelancers to staffers to independent journalists. Different beats to broaden your understanding of SoCal.
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@joeyneverjoe.bsky.social
@miawong.bsky.social
Host of It Could Happen Here (and sometime Behind the Bastards for Cool Zone Media. Proud iHeart Podcast Union member Ending every post(?) with Moreover, ICE must be destroyed She/Her
@cerisecastle.bsky.social
she/her. multi-award winning journalist. Wrote history of #LASDgangs, now writing the book. covering inequality Capital & Main, freelancing. IG/TikTok @yourmajestcee. Tip? DM
@loisbeckett.bsky.social
Guardian reporter in Los Angeles. Lois.Beckett@theguardian.com https://www.theguardian.com/profile/lois-beckett
@jerryiannelli.bsky.social
Report/edit stories about cops for the worker-run @theappeal.org, sometimes union organizer. LA-based. Nonbinary goth. They/he/any 🏳️⚧️ jerry.iannelli@theappeal.org
@mattdpearce.com
May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house. Opinions are my own (but they are correct) https://mattdpearce.substack.com
@reneereizman.com
Artist, Writer, Dog enthusiast 🌵 Contributor at Hyperallergic, teaching communication design at Pepperdine & USC
@acatwithnews.bsky.social
Writer, Videographer, Journalist. Based once again in Los Angeles. https://calmatters.org/commentary/2025/01/los-angeles-fire-mutual-aid/
@ericlevai.bsky.social
Organized crime reporter with work in @RollingStone @DailyDot @ForensicNewsNet. Reach me at eml.07 on Signal. https://ericlevai.substack.com/
@reporterliz.bsky.social
LA Public Press's public commons reporter. "What's up with what's going down?" 👩🏻💻 echou@lapublicpress.org 🕸️ lapublicpress.org 🦋 @lapublicpress.bsky.social
@sherlyholmes.bsky.social
California politics reporter at the LA Times. Former EIC at LAist.
@adamrose.bsky.social
COO at Starling Lab, based at Stanford & USC. We specialize in proving data (inc. photo/video) is authentic. Exploring "trust" in journalism/law/history in age of gen AI. Press Rights Chair at Los Angeles Press Club. Sticking up for the 1A across CA.
@tarantulaarms.bsky.social
Hello, Mother Leopard. Breaking news reporter. Normal amount of hands and feet. Definitely not a spider. https://www.latimes.com/people/nathan-solis
@unrigla.bsky.social
@joeorephoto.bsky.social
Freelance photographer, photojournalist in San Diego, CA, he/him. IG: (joeorephoto) | iwwfju member | need to reach me? email via link in bio! https://bio.site/joeorephoto
@primateyell.bsky.social
Recovering journalist, future lawyer, resident of Los Animals. My Signal username is emilyalpertreyes.26. Banner photo by Tom Olin: https://tomolincollection.com/?p=310
@lataco.bsky.social
Street-level journalism in Los Ángeles covering news, culture, and the taco lifestyle. “The 2020 Emerging Voice” James Beard Award winner. Est. 2006. https://linktr.ee/LATACO
@jqwritesstuff.bsky.social
Crime: Real & Imagined. L.A. Times Courts/Chaos Reporter Alleged Author Of The Russell Avery Novels (Formerly Polis, Now Counterpoint) Does tricks for food. Rep: @jmcgowanbks
@tinadesireeberg.com
International woman of mystery. MA Philosophy. Anteater. Chief Muckety Muckraker.
@filmthepolicela.bsky.social
Hollow’s dad. Copwatcher specializing in LAPD accountability. FilmThePoliceLA.com
@sergioolmos.bsky.social
Investigative reporter @CalMatters | Winner of no awards | sergio@calmatters.org | dm for Signal | 🇲🇽
@megoconnor.bsky.social
Reporter covering cops and prosecutors for @theappeal.org, a worker-led newsroom. Free Palestine. I also love hiking and baking. she/they 🏳️🌈 https://linktr.ee/megoconnor13
@samtlevin.bsky.social
Guardian senior reporter, based in Los Angeles. Sam.Levin@theguardian [dot] com. https://www.theguardian.com/profile/sam-levin
@psfrench.bsky.social
reporting on prisons, DAs, & people working to change the criminal legal system with @bolts.bsky.social freelance magazine work: NYRB, NY mag, Aperture, Lux, Drift, Nation @ los angeles, mostly piperstrehlowfrench@gmail.com -> psfrench.com en/es/fr
@awalkerinla.bsky.social
I'm a writer and a walker in LA. Tracking the city's megaevent progress at Torched. Co-host LA Podcast, episodes weekly at thelapod.com. LAUSD mom. @awalkerinla everywhere else. Sign up for my newsletter at torched.la 🔥
@meghanncuniff.bsky.social
Legal affairs journalist in Southern California. Follow my work by subscribing to Legal Affairs and Trials. https://www.legalaffairsandtrials.com/subscribe
@katecagle.bsky.social
Los Angeles news, politics, corruption and deputy gangs | Journalist | Anchor Spectrum News 1 | mostly vegetarian 🌱
@jesspish.bsky.social
she/her Book on sheriffs & democracy https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/707263/the-highest-law-in-the-land-by-jessica-pishko/ Repped by @rhaliterary DM for Signal or email jesspish@gmail.com “Women aren’t typically this crazy about politics.”
@milesklee.bsky.social
New Jersey ain’t the whole world https://www.rollingstone.com/author/miles-klee/
@taylorlorenz.bsky.social
Subscribe to my tech and online culture newsletter UserMag.co Listen/watch Power User podcast on all platforms!!
@suhauna.bsky.social
reporter @ LA Times covering labor and workplace issues. send tips: suhauna.hussain@latimes.com https://www.latimes.com/la-bio-suhauna-hussain-staff.html
@jamesstout.bsky.social
I write stories about conflict and borders and the people they impact. Working on a book about anarchists at war, already wrote one about the anti fascist Olympics. Berxwedan jiyane ✌️ https://www.patreon.com/Jamesstout
@eltragon.bsky.social
Taco journalist, Director at the award winning @lataco, Apple Maps “Where Memo Eats,” heard on KCRW’s Good Food, seen on Netflix, etc., & landscaper. https://solo.to/eltragon
@katerqburns.bsky.social
Christofascism and Extremism researcher Fluent in Sean Feucht Breast cancer community organizer and survivor. Taungurung [-o-] on Tongva/kizh land 📍LA ✍🏼 https://leftcoastrightwatch.org/authors/kate-burns/ More https://linktr.ee/kateburnschad
@skyspider.bsky.social
photographer, writer, documenting the far-right. Galleries https://www.goingthroughglass.com/The-FAFO-Chronicles
@lcrw.bsky.social
Coverin' extremism PODCAST: http://bit.ly/3BGThEI NEWS TIPS: leftcoastrightwatch@Proton.me PATREON: http://patreon.com/lcrw DONATE: http://cash.me/$LCRW
@marinamasako.bsky.social
Journalist and social media girly 👩🏻💻 A pleasure to have in class. Video Producer @teenvogue.com, Glamour, @Them.us. Previously: @latimes.com, Bitch Media
@eedugdale.bsky.social
🇨🇴 she/her journalist in LA. I write about jails (+ other stuff). Contributing editor/reporter LA Public Press.
@bencamach0.bsky.social
multi-award winning journalist, documentary photographer // production West Side Storytellers, union IWW-FJU, signal: bencamacho.01 https://linktr.ee/bencamacho
@keribla.bsky.social
Reporter: LA Times. Author: Corrections in Ink. New America fellow. Journalist, felon. (I promise I don't bite)
@joeyneverjoe.bsky.social
Investigative journalist covering policing, prisons, protests, and surveillance. Documentary photographer. Called an “activist journalist” by LAPD Signal: joeyscott.05 www.joeyscott.xyz