![]() In the past, to lose my job might require only a bad quarter in the ad market, the loss of an ally in upper management, or the takeover of my company by some indifferent telecom company. The result is a job that feels more durable, and sustainable, than any other employment I’ve had. This was the incentive I hoped that this model of journalism would bring to my reporting: readers would encounter my journalism, like it, and pay me to go do more of it. I wrote the definitive pieces on what happened at Basecamp after its founders sought to eliminate political discussions in the workplace. I explored how Medium’s latest pivot toward journalism ended in disaster for the talented journalists who worked there. I revealed deep tensions within Signal over its plans to incorporate cryptocurrency and new social features into the app, risking a regulatory backlash that could threaten encryption globally. ![]() Platformer was the first to report the details of the email that got Timnit Gebru fired from Google, in a piece later cited in a congressional inquiry. Here are some of the stories I’m proud of: ![]() The biggest spikes in both free and paid membership over the past year came after I published the best reporting I did this year. How did it grow that quickly? In short, by publishing journalism. Twelve months later, there are 49,604 people subscribed to Platformer’s free list, and they regularly open this newsletter at a rate that far exceeds in the industry average. When I started Platformer with the mailing list I accumulated while writing my previous newsletter, there were around 24,000 of them. That support has come on the back of growth that surpassed my highest expectations for year one. I’m hopeful that your continued support will allow me to expand the business soon, in ways I’ll discuss later in this post. It affords me a good salary, covers my health care, and pays for the various expenses that come with running a small business. Platformer is, thanks to your support, the best job I’ve ever had. My hope is that this piece offers some texture to ongoing discussions about how the creator economy and traditional journalism intersect, and proves useful both to journalists considering making a move like this and readers who are curious about whether this model can offer a more sustainable path for journalism than the rocky one we’ve been on lately. Today I wanted to tell you all how it’s going, what I’ve learned, and how I hope the business will evolve in year two. We’re republishing it here because it offers a lot of great detail about what it’s like to leave a media company and start your own publication.Ī year ago, I quit the best job I ever had to start Platformer. This piece originally ran on Casey Newton’s Substack, Platformer. Įntire police force in Minnesota city resigns over pay concernsįederal judge tosses suit against Biden student loan forgiveness plan for. The 12 Trump tweets listed in the Georgia indictmentįormer Georgia lieutenant governor describes testimony to Fulton County grand. Trump: Former lieutenant governor shouldn’t testify in Georgia election. House GOP trio introduces bill repealing DC Home Rule Actĥ3 percent in new poll say they would not support Trump if he is GOP nomineeĥ takeaways from Trump’s Georgia indictment GOP releases transcript from FBI agent involved in Hunter Biden investigation Time running out to file for $725M Facebook settlement: How to claim your. Trump refusal to sign loyalty pledge puts RNC in bindĬhristie pulls ahead of DeSantis in New Hampshire GOP primary: poll He said the family is requesting privacy while they grieve. ![]() Newton County Coroner Scott McCord said he was working Tuesday on paperwork needed to get Bibbs’ remains sent to his relatives for burial. All four had been drugged and murdered by Eyler, according to his confessions. He is the last to be positively identified of the four victims found buried in shallow graves in October 1983 at the abandoned farm in Lake Village, about 60 miles (96 kilometers) southeast of Chicago. The Newton County Coroner’s Office worked with the DNA Doe Project, Indiana State Police and the Identify Indiana Initiative to identify Bibbs nearly 40 years after his remains were discovered. In 1990, Eyler confessed to killing a Black male in July 1983 at a Newton County farm and described that male as being in his late teens or early 20s, said Pam Lauritzen, spokeswoman for the DNA Doe Project, a nonprofit that works to identify cold case victims.īibbs, who was a Chicago resident, would have been 16 at the time of his death, she said. Eyler confessed to at least 20 killings before dying in 1994 at an Illinois prison, where he was on death row for the 1984 murder of 15-year-old Danny Bridges of Chicago. ![]()
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