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  1. 1Casey NewtonCasey NewtonBorn 19 Jun 1980Platformer The safest first subscription if technology is your beat. Newton spent ten years covering Silicon Valley for The Verge, CNET and the San Francisco Chronicle before founding Platformer in 2020, and that decade of sources shows when platforms change their rules or AI companies…0
  2. 2Judd LegumJudd LegumBorn 8 Dec 1978Popular Information Accountability reporting from the founder of ThinkProgress, arriving four mornings a week, Monday to Thursday, with no advertising. Legum's signature move is following the money: which companies say one thing in public and fund the opposite through political donations. He is…0
  3. 3Matt TaibbiMatt TaibbiBorn 2 Mar 1970Racket News The pick for readers who distrust media consensus from any direction. After most of two decades at Rolling Stone, Taibbi built Racket around a mix of humorous commentary and investigative work, including his Twitter Files reporting, finance, congressional procedure and military…0
  4. 4Ken KlippensteinKen KlippensteinBorn 1 Feb 1988Ken Klippenstein's newsletter For readers who want to know what the Pentagon, the FBI and the wider security apparatus are doing, rather than what officials say they are doing. A former DC correspondent for The Nation and reporter at The Intercept, Klippenstein went independent in 2024,…0
  5. 5Marisa KabasMarisa KabasBorn 4 Aug 1987The Handbasket Scoops about American politics from a largely one-woman operation, with occasional guest writers. Kabas tags her work as exclusives, scoops, in-depth pieces and interviews, and the scoops are why people pay: in October 2026 she identified the man known as Tommy in a viral Abdul…0
  6. 6Chris GeidnerChris GeidnerLaw Dork The clearest way to follow the courts without a law degree, written by someone who has one. Geidner practised law in Ohio before journalism and was legal editor and Supreme Court correspondent at BuzzFeed News, so his reporting reads filings and rulings rather than press releases about…0
  7. 7Emily AtkinEmily AtkinHEATED Climate coverage that asks who is responsible rather than how bad things are. Atkin covered climate change at ThinkProgress and then as a staff writer at The New Republic from 2017 to 2019 before starting HEATED, which bills itself as accountability journalism for the climate crisis. The…0
  8. 8Stephen TotiloStephen TotiloGame File The games newsletter for people who care about who makes games and how the business works, not just what is coming out. Totilo has covered the beat for about 20 years: first video game reporter at MTV News, nine years as Kotaku's editor-in-chief, then building Axios's games…0
  9. 9Taylor LorenzTaylor LorenzUser Mag Internet culture reported from the users' side. Lorenz was a technology columnist at The Washington Post and a technology reporter for The New York Times and The Atlantic; User Mag documents the people and movements that shape the internet rather than earnings calls and boardroom…0
  10. 10Tara PalmeriTara PalmeriBorn 1 Sept 1987The Red Letter Washington and power-broker scoops from a reporter who has worked the beat from several angles: Page Six at the New York Post, Brussels and Playbook at Politico, White House correspondent for ABC News and senior political correspondent at Puck. Palmeri started The Red Letter, with…0