Your First Byline starter pack
A starter pack of journalists featured on Your First Byline
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@ryanbeckwith.bsky.social
@zanmerusteffgen.bsky.social
Freelance travel journalist with cystic fibrosis covering food & beverage, accessible adventure, and responsible travel with a focus on local voices. Reach me at zanny@zannymerullosteffgen.com zannymerullosteffgen.com
@jacobbogage.bsky.social
Congress + economics for @washingtonpost.com. Bad golfer. jacob.bogage@washpost.com. Signal: jacobbogage.87. Join our newsletter: washingtonpost.com/newsletters/early-brief
@kevincortez.huffpost.com
🇹🇭 x 🇵🇷 DC. shopping writer for @huffpost.com. wgae and aaja member. former reviews editor at popular mechanics, runner's world, and bicycling. bylines: genius, inverse, the a.v. club, vulture, gear patrol, wsj
@gsealey.bsky.social
journalist, dog mom, human mom. #LGM acting editor in chief, @themarshallproject.org
@michaelsalfino.bsky.social
Senior fantasy writer @theathletic. Writes the back of the cards for Topps. Collectibles scribe for @theathletic. Formerly at The Wall Street Journal Sports and FiveThirtyEight. U.S. Election correspondent at The Independent, 2018-20.
@lifesafeast.bsky.social
Writer mostly about food & culture, food historian, cookbook author, hotel owner, jam maker, American in France. I've won some awards. If there’s food, I’ll be there. #endALS Check out my stuff https://bento.me/jamieschler https://jamieschler.substack.com
@sykescharlie.bsky.social
Author, Substack newsletter “To the Contrary.” Host, "To the Contrary" podcast. Dog owner, grandfather. MSNBC. Still Never Trump. No regrets. Website: https://charliesykes.substack.com/
@kbolongaro.bsky.social
Managing Editor, Europe at MLex Award-winning reporter PhD far-right politics Ex Bloomberg, Politico Europe, DW 🗣️🇨🇦🇮🇹🇪🇸🇫🇷🇩🇪 bolongaro@mlex.com
@jesskarl.bsky.social
i write a newsletter for bloomberg ✍️🦖 https://www.bloomberg.com/account/newsletters/opinion-today
@kaileybroussard.bsky.social
Health reporter, KERA News. Made in south Louisiana. Inbox open: kbroussard@kera.org
@marisakabas.bsky.social
journalist / founder @ thehandbasket.co email: MKwrites4000@proton.me signal: https://signal.me/#eu/VssgH88q6WQu7MtH5wF-08JdgWh4iAPWD13eXiOcXQNGdZUXijJBZInD-UtLJKFG venmo: venmo.com/u/Marisa-Kabas ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/marisakabas
@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
@cestmoilanglois.bsky.social
Independent journalist, features editor at bioGraphic, contributing editor at Adventure Journal, essayist, mom, "queen of delicious verbs." A watery soul in an arid land.
@lukeplunkett.com
Co-founder of @aftermath.site. 📍Canberra, Australia. DMs open. Email: lukeATaftermathDOTsite www.aftermath.site https://www.lukeplunkett.com/
@bfishbfish.bsky.social
Writer: NYT, WaPo, Teen Vogue, Jezebel, Vulture, The Cut, Hell Gate, etc. Buy FLORAL ESTRANGEMENTS, out now!
@obwax.bsky.social
Staff Writer at TIME in the Entertainment section, covering upcoming movies, TV shows, books, and all things History. olivia.waxman@time.com
@asarch.bsky.social
Freelance Writer On The Internet // Bylines Newsweek, Insider, Rolling Stone, Buzzfeed News, and many others // worked on a docu-series once // will take memes as tips
@mollymccluskey.com
Investigative journalist & editor focusing on border parks and other public lands. CEO & Editor-in-Chief: Diplomatica Global Media. International literature enthusiast. Local news advocate. DC/SE AK https://www.mollymccluskey.com/
@lanikaps.bsky.social
USA Today Best-Selling Author & writer/editor ✨former senior editor @ alternative press ✍️ @ rolling stone, new york times, gq, npr, vanity fair, etc. ✨ my book nora ephron at the movies is out now via abrams!
@laurarbelin.bsky.social
Reporter covering Iowa politics (and sometimes wildflowers) for the progressive website Bleeding Heartland. https://www.bleedingheartland.com Part-time statehouse reporter for KHOI Radio in Ames. https://laurabelin.substack.com
@orlandofloresjr.bsky.social
Digital Editor in New Orleans | Gulf States Newsroom (WWNO, WRKF, WBHM, MPB, NPR) | Past stops: The Times-Picayune, The Advocate, The Times Record News | Proud Midwestern State alum | contact me at: orlando@gulfstatesnewsroom.org
@taylorlorenz.bsky.social
Subscribe to my tech and online culture newsletter UserMag.co Listen/watch Power User podcast on all platforms!!
@byclairehogan.bsky.social
Video producer at @nytimes.com, paranormal enthusiast, mostly still on the other app but trying to be here too
@rachelbrods.bsky.social
Music & Culture Writer/Editor. Words: TIME, Stereogum, LA Times, Rolling Stone, more. Copywriting for DISCO.ac. Co-host of TheInSyncPod 🎧 Say hi: Rebrods26@gmail.com https://authory.com/RachelBrodsky
@emilyctamkin.bsky.social
Writer, reporter, editor, all-around delight. Work lots of places. Author of THE INFLUENCE OF SOROS and BAD JEWS. Working on new book on Holocaust remembrance. Don’t yell at me. emilyctamkin@gmail.com. emilyctamkin.substack.com.
@tromano.bsky.social
Author of The Freaks Came Out To Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper that Changed American Culture. https://linktr.ee/tromano_writer
@keribla.bsky.social
Reporter: LA Times. Author: Corrections in Ink. New America fellow. Journalist, felon. (I promise I don't bite)
@laurenleffer.bsky.social
Former Bug Scientist / Current Science Journalist/ Bylines at SciAm, PopSci, NatGeo, Gizmodo, etc.../ All views my own
@billyball.bsky.social
Founder, TheLivingSouth.com; Senior Editor @CardinalandPine; Seen On: @TheAtlantic @washingtonpost @MSNBC, others. @UNCHussman grad. Journalism is the best job ever.
@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
@jonquilynhill.bsky.social
You can call me JQ. Howard Alumna. Hosting Explain It to Me for Vox. I like cornbread and collard greens. Got a question? Call 1-800-618-8545 and I’ll find you an answer.
@evepeyser.bsky.social
writer covering weird culture, sports + consumerism / read me in the new york times, nymag + elsewhere / evepeyser.com
@jesusrodriguez.work
Journalist @washingtonpost.com, writing political features. Immigrant, nosy, big-nosed.
@seejanemarie.bsky.social
Retired rap groupie with a serious job hosting The Dream. Hit up hello@littleeverywhere.com for tips and crit.
@tanvi.bsky.social
writer +/ journo covering migration, cities, justice etc. words in The Nation, Politico Mag, The Baffler, The Nation, The New Republic, etc. teaching @ CUNY’s Newmark School of Journalism. tanvim.05 on signal. Tanvim27 on insta.
@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
@anniekarni.bsky.social
Congressional correspondent, New York Times, co-author of the NYT bestseller “Mad House,” out 3/25/25
@eveandrews.bsky.social
writer in pittsburgh on environment and climate change and culture http://eveandre.ws
@oliviakrauth.bsky.social
ky. journalist | responsible for @thegallerypass.bsky.social, a hot girl's guide to kentucky politics + policy. subscribe + everything else: https://linktr.ee/oliviakrauth
@msmacb.bsky.social
Journalist, dog lover, goat wrangler. I write a newsletter about substance use & addiction recovery: askasoberlady.substack.com. It’s free and I have low self-esteem; please subscribe. Librarian always.
@talkopan.bsky.social
Deputy D.C. Bureau Chief, @BostonGlobe tal.kopan@globe.com Tal rhymes with fall, not pal. Signal: https://tinyurl.com/3ex3wshr / TalKopan.01
@adrienneshih.bsky.social
@stphnfwlr.com
political reporter covering the restructuring of federal government + ???? for @NPR.org | always thinking of bourbon, biscuits and buc-ee’s newsletter: stphnfwlr.substack.com stories: https://www.npr.org/people/1219684807/stephen-fowler
@kerryhowley.bsky.social
Feature Writer at New York Magazine, author of Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs, New Englander in Los Feliz
@mnealdoherty.bsky.social
Writer || Book Critic || Freelance Journalist || Book Worm, Wild Child maggienealdoherty.com Mother Nature’s Daughter :: mountain, river, lakes.
@tayloremrey.bsky.social
freelance photographer in chicago, proudly (?) midwestern
@samitsarkar.bsky.social
✊🏾 formerly & forever Vox Union | past life: @polygon.com | ⁉️ proud Jeopardy! loser | reading, writing, playing, watching, sleeping | he/him
@damaso.bsky.social
Award winning founding editor of The Blacklight, the NY Amsterdam News' investigative unit. Living kidney donor. Photojournalist. Reposts ≠ endorsement. https://amsterdamnews.com/damasoreyes/
@kjezermorton.bsky.social
I write the column Brooding for The Cut Book coming in 2026 from Viking
@katie-cam.bsky.social
health reporter | formerly: SELF, USA TODAY, BuzzFeed News, McClatchy | words also in: WaPo, NatGeo, NBC News, Guardian + more https://camerokt.wixsite.com/healthandwellness
@kimekom.bsky.social
Senior writer @ Digiday As seen in: Adweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Andscape, Atlanta Magazine Professional yapper
@parshallison.bsky.social
Mind and brain news editor at Scientific American. Follow for weekly science quizzes! Views are my own.
@kylierobison.com
nothing is real, you are dreaming, this is not a trash can, i’m an AI reporter for wired.com my two accomplishments here are that i invited AOC and i started the first-ever Hellthread http://kyliebytes.com • sf
@kris10p.bsky.social
Senior Workplace DEI Reporter at Morning Brew. Gracie award winner. Advocate for disability representation in media. Wheelchair user/spinal cord injury survivor. Tips: signal: @k4326.10
@amanda.omg.lol
+ senior culture writer, @techcrunch.com + podcasting about the internet on @wowiftrue.bsky.social (@multitude.productions) + she/her ✡️ + talking too much about pottery and the phillies + my opinions ≠ my employer’s
@cheetah.bsky.social
Reporting on Congress and sometimes clothes for The Bulwark. Perticone@thebulwark.com 📍 D.C.
@tamarhaspel.bsky.social
James Beard winning WaPo columnist writing about food & science, author of TO BOLDLY GROW, gentleman oyster farmer.
@scottnover.bsky.social
Media reporter at The Washington Post. GW adjunct professor of journalism. Reach out securely on Signal at scottnover.99.
@billkuchman.bsky.social
Newspaper and illustrations at Politico. Founder of TheOmnicosm.com, home of the Popculturology and Snackology newsletters. Rochester, N.Y., native. Was once featured on Late Night. https://www.theomnicosm.com/signup/
@taylorgiorno.bsky.social
lobbying & influence reporter at NOTUS | like DiGiorno pizza | The Hill and OpenSecrets alum | send tips & dog pics to taylorgiorno@notus.org or tayg.42 (Signal)
@phillydesign.bsky.social
Never been more like I am today. Journalist, photographer, Philadelphian. Editorial director at Technical.ly. Formerly Billy Penn at WHYY.
@leighgiangreco.bsky.social
Buffalonian. Freelance journalist in Chicago. Words in The Washington Post, Block Club Chicago, The Guardian and Politico Magazine. Find my work at LeighGiangreco.com
@amierivers.bsky.social
labor journalist @iowastartingline.com // inbox things: iowastartingline.com/newsletter // story ideas and hot goss: amie@iowastartingline.com
@tinanguyen.bsky.social
Senior Reporter at The Verge and the media's most socially acceptable MAGA whisperer. Former: Puck/Politico/Vanity Fair. Author of THE MAGA DIARIES (out now). Reach me at tina@theverge.com o @tina_nguyen.19 on signal, and pls use my pronouns (🤷♀️/🙃/🫠).
@parkermolloy.com
I write the media/internet/culture/politics/whatever newsletter The Present Age: www.readtpa.com Chicagoan / wife of @kaylapekkala.bsky.social / second favorite human to two dogs / not an activist / likes baseball
@byrobinepley.bsky.social
Me: Opinion columnist at The Sacramento Bee Mainly: Feminist cultural politics and criticism Sometimes: Oo shiny Formerly: Pulitzer Prize finalist at Chico Ent.-Record Always: Love living rent-free in your brain
@knopps.bsky.social
Billboard editor at large. Ex-Rolling Stone contributing editor. Author of books including Appetite for Self-Destruction and MJ: The Genius of Michael Jackson. NYT contributor. Freelancer forever.
@chuckmccutcheon.bsky.social
Energy/climate editor at @Axios.com. Author of books on climate change, Congress, political jargon, nuclear waste. Long-suffering NY Giants fan.
@emilyjoshu.bsky.social
Senior health reporter, DailyMail.com. Ranch dressing enthusiast. Tips: emily.joshu@mailonline.com
@gracesegers.bsky.social
Politics reporter for The New Republic. Email: gsegers@tnr.com Signal: gracesegers.58
@marksimon.bsky.social
Editorial at Sports Info Solutions Host: The Journalism Salute pod.link/journalismsalute Formerly of ESPN, Baseball Tonight. Mets historian. Wrote "The Yankees Index" book. Play-by-Play: Muhlenberg/DeSales Creator- A Lasting Legacy documentary
@laurpuckett.bsky.social
staff culture writer @ elle magazine (books, tv, and movies) https://linktr.ee/laurpuckett
@joshuakosman.bsky.social
Retired classical music critic for the San Francisco Chronicle. Co-constructor, Out of Left Field cryptic crossword. pacificaisle.substack.com. He/him
@erikabolstad.bsky.social
Journalist, doc filmmaker and author of Windfall. Portland, Ore. Find The Windfall Dispatch on Substack. erikabolstad.com
@jilldlawrence.bsky.social
Opinion writer. Pvs: Editor at USA Today Opinion and National Journal, campaign reporter at USA Today and AP. Author, "The Art of the Political Deal: How Congress Beat the Odds and Broke Through Gridlock." My work: https://jilllawrence.com
@courtneybuble.bsky.social
Congress reporter for @law360.bsky.social Courtney.buble@law360.com
@johnhendrickson.bsky.social
Staff Writer at The Atlantic | Author of LIFE ON DELAY | johnhendrickson.org/contact
@brittanywallman.bsky.social
@MiamiHerald.com Investigations Team Formerly South Florida Sun Sentinel
@mallorycarra.com
USC Annenberg part-time journalism professor, freelance journalist & podcast producer, yogi & foodie. Portfolio: mallorycarra.com / West Coast Media Jobs & more newsletters: https://substack.com/@mallorycarra
@watchdogdiva.bsky.social
🇵🇷 Investigative journalist & editor | 2025 Pulitzer Prize finalist | Former publicintegrity.org | NBC6 | Sun-Sentinel | FCIR| IRE | EWA | SPJ | Speaker & Trainer | Yogi 🙏 | Salsa dancer 🇵🇷 Subscribe 📝 https://mcnellytorres.substack.com/about
@nickriccardi.bsky.social
AP political reporter. Father, hiker, pizza snob, part of the social media diaspora.
@danapiccoli.com
(She/Her) LGBTQ+ media. Award-winning writer/editor. Lesbian processor. Profesh moderator. Advocate for positive queer rep in media 🌈 Opinions are my own.
@ruthgraham.bsky.social
National correspondent at The New York Times covering religion, faith and values. ~Texas~. Ruth.Graham@nytimes.com
@abbyvesoulis.bsky.social
Currently: National Politics reporter at Mother Jones magazine. Previously: TIME Magazine. Always: Trying my best. Sometimes: Coming up short. Encrypted contact info: Signal: abbyvesoulis.09 Proton Mail: abbyvesoulis@proton.me