Oct 24, 2023 · I’m Marisa Kabas, a Brooklyn-based independent writer and reporter. After watching the journalism infrastructure crumble over the last decade, I decided that I needed to have a place where I could share my work and thoughts no matter what.

I'm a New York-based journalist and activist. By day, I work as an Editorial Campaigns Director at Purpose, and on the side I continue my career as a writer. My work has appeared on NBC Think, GQ, Rolling Stone, and Glamour. I was a sex & life reporter and editor at Fusion, and before that, a lifestyle staff writer the Daily Dot.

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Feb 2, 2025 · Marisa Kabas’ scoop this past week was a key moment for a growing cadre of journalists who work independently to gather and analyze news and market themselves as brands. Many are refugees from legacy outlets while others are scrappy newcomers like Kabas, who found traditional career paths unappealing or out of reach.

The Handbasket is 100% independent journalism by writer and reporter Marisa Kabas. It can now be found at https://www.thehandbasket.co/

Marisa Kabas writes about politics, media and gender and their many intersections. Her work has appeared in Rolling Stone, HuffPost and The New Republic, and she writes a...

Feb 3, 2025 · When The Washington Post ran its first piece on the federal funding freeze last week, its reporters gave credit where it was due: It was independent journalist Marisa Kabas who had broken the story.. Kabas started her newsletter The Handbasket as a Substack in 2022. (As in “to hell in a handbasket.”) The newsletter, now hosted on Beehiiv, became her full-time job a …

2 days ago · Marisa Kabas’ scoop this past week was a key moment for a growing cadre of journalists who work independently to gather and analyze news and market themselves as brands. Many are refugees from ...

Feb 1, 2025 · Making inappropriate and highly offensive jokes that trivialize the Holocaust only serve to minimize the evil and inhumanity of Nazi crimes, denigrate the suffering of both victims and survivors and insult the memory of the six million Jews murdered in the Shoah.