Garrett Bucks @garrettbucks.bsky.social Writer/Organizer/Hopemonger. Read The White Pages (please) (https://thewhitepages.net). From Montana/now in Milwaukee.
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Gina Waggott @ginawag.bsky.social Food geek. TV Industry Escapee. Writer. Scatman John biographer.
Charles Bethea @charlesbethea.bsky.social New Yorker staff writer in Atlanta
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Joe Neff @josephneff.bsky.social Investigative reporter at The Marshall Project
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Stephanie Kirchgaessner @skirchy.bsky.social Deputy editor of investigations, Guardian US. I write/edit stories on any topic that should be investigated. https://www.theguardian.com/profile/stephanie-kirchgaessner
Byard Duncan @byardduncan.bsky.social Award-winning investigative reporter covering business and consumer protection issues. Bylines: ProPublica, Reveal, Esquire, GQ, others.
Joe Bernstein @bernstein.bsky.social New York Times reporter. 5’9”
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Matt Tontonoz @mtontonoz.bsky.social PhD candidate, History and Philosophy of Science; Editor at embryo.asu.edu; co-author, Biology for a Changing World; cat dad 🌈
Isaac Stanley-Becker @isaacstanleybecker.bsky.social Staff writer at the Atlantic and author of Europe without Borders: A History.
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Emily Vespa @emilyvespa.bsky.social Staff writer @rcfp.org. Bylines in The Assembly, NC Health News, The News & Observer.
Matthew Shaer @matthewshaer.bsky.social Contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine, Emerson Fellow at New America, host of the Origin Stories podcast. Red Sox fan. Please God don't ask me about the "progress" on my "book"
Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com Freelance journalist. @ms.now and Xtra Magazine columnist. Co-founder: The Flytrap. Cancel Me, Daddy podcast co-host.
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Lynne Gerber @thislynne.bsky.social Independent Scholar | Host, When We All Get to Heaven | Author, Seeking the Straight and Narrow | Writing on religion and AIDS in 80s and 90s San Francisco | #adoptee
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Stephen Robert Miller @s-r-m.bsky.social Journalist. Author of 'Over the Seawall: Tsunamis, Cyclones, Drought, and the Delusion of Controlling Nature'
n. collins 🦇 @nathanpcollins.bsky.social investigative reporter @ The New Bedford Light, formerly in a rock band.
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Tom Junod @tomjunod.bsky.social Senior Writer, @ESPN. Author of "In The Days Of My Youth I Was Told What It Means To Be A Man," forthcoming from @doubledaybooks in March 2026.
Wudan Yan @wudan.bsky.social Narrative journalist, fact-checker, podcaster. Founder, Factual—a fact-checking agency
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Ezra Klein @ezraklein.bsky.social Columnist at The New York Times, host of "The Ezra Klein Show" podcast. 
Pam Radtke @pradtke.bsky.social Climate, energy and Louisiana reporter for @floodlightnews.org. Trying to explain in plain language the firehose of developments on LNG, Carbon Capture and electric utilities.
Liam Scott @liamjscott.bsky.social Covering local transportation @ Washington Post. Views my own
Nina G @ninagcomedian.bsky.social Comedians and author
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Long Lead @longlead.com A story studio publishing in-depth journalism without compromise. Latest feature: TITLE WAVES: https://title-waves.longlead.com/
Ben Barber @ben-barber.bsky.social PhD student in American Studies at UNC–Chapel Hill. Researching land, democracy, and justice in the rural South.
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Institute for Southern Studies @southernstudies.bsky.social Exposing injustice, strengthening democracy, and building community for change in the South. Publisher of Facing South: https://www.facingsouth.org/
Boyce Upholt @boyceupholt.bsky.social 🖊 EIC/Found of Southlands 📖: THE GREAT RIVER: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi (W.W. Norton) 🏆: Willie Morris Award for Southern Writing 
Kris Nordstrom @krisnordstrom.bsky.social Budget and tax policy and soccer (Fulham, Revs, USMNT, Levante). Director of Research at New Mexico Voices for Children
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Corey Johnson @coreygjohnson.bsky.social Reporter @ProPublica; Winner of the @Pulitzer Prize; Atlanta, Ga native; @FAMU alum. Lover of great food, art, books, films and people. Keeper of secrets. Revealer of hidden truths.
Vernal @vernalcoleman.bsky.social Chicago-based ProPublica Reporter covering the Midwest. Reach me at vernal.coleman@propublica.org or on Signal: vcoleman91.99
jacob biba @jacobbiba.bsky.social NC Local/Open Campus Investigative Reporter
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Jackie Llanos @llanosjackie.bsky.social Immigration reporter for @NOTUS.org and AJI fellow | Roll ‘ders 🕷️
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Rhett Ayers Butler @rhettayersbutler.bsky.social Founder of Mongabay, a platform that delivers news & inspiration from Nature's frontline via a global network of reporters. I'm not very active on this platform. You can find me on LinkedIn and/or follow Mongabay's BlueSky account.
j.j. johnson, unruly Quaker & author @unrulyquaker.bsky.social Restorative justice facilitator. Prison & ICE abolitionist. Roller skater.
Harsh on systems, soft on living things.
“Notes from an Unruly Quaker” on Substack.
I write y.a. novels too: Believarexic, The Theory of Everything, This Girl is Different.
Jack Herrera @jherrerx.bsky.social Freelance reporter, un tipo chido
I cover the border and other bad news. I write about how changing demography impacts individual lives, in particular in Latino communities.
Work in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Texas Monthly 
Nick Carnes @carnes.bsky.social Author of White-Collar Government and The Cash Ceiling
Co-Author of Keeping Workers Off the Ballot
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Just Security @justsecurity.org Forum on law, rights, and security. Editorial Board includes professors, top civil society attorneys, former senior government officials.
Charlie Savage @charliesavage.bsky.social The New York Times national security and legal reporter. Not the Welsh footballer, Roddy Doyle character or 19th Century adventurer in Fiji.
The Food & Environment Reporting Network @thefern.org The Food & Environment Reporting Network (FERN) produces independent, non-profit journalism at the intersection of food, agriculture, and the environment.
Brian Hawkins @brianhawkins.bsky.social Formerly: Durham, NC
Presently: Winnipeg, MB
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Royce Hardin @royce-hardin.bsky.social Retired Extension Agent-Agriculture, NC Cooperative Extension. Live in Penobscot, Maine
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Fireside Farm @firesidefarm.bsky.social We are a flower farm/floral design studio in North Carolina 💐- R James Edmunds @reginaldpaste.bsky.social Some guy or other.
D. A. Denison @daveadenison.bsky.social Writer at Large for The Baffler mag. Based in Massachusetts. Once a young reporter at The Texas Observer. Latest work on Texas #populism here:
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Damon Brown @browndamon.bsky.social I help side hustlers, solopreneurs & other non-traditional entrepreneurs bloom 🌻
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Hanna Raskin @hannaraskin.bsky.social Founder of The Food Section, an award-winning daily newsletter for readers who want to better understand the South and its people through food. Read and subscribe at thefoodsection.com
Emily Sweeney @emilysweeney22.bsky.social Boston Globe video journalist, Blotter Tales columnist, and Cold Case Files reporter | Follow me on Insta: @emilysweeney22 | Sign up for my newsletter: https://globe.com/coldcase
Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com I study immigration enforcement. Assistant Professor at Syracuse University and Research Fellow at the Center for Latin American and Latino Studies at American University. https://linktr.ee/austinkocher
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Tori Smith Ekstrand @toriekstrand.bsky.social Professor, Media Law, UNC-Chapel Hill, School of Journalism and Media. Former AP exec. Speaking for myself & not UNC. "Take up space. Pitch it faster. Run harder. Put another plate on the bar. And NEVER tone it down." - Ilona Maher. #academicfreedom
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Siembra NC @siembranc.bsky.social Latino community & worker organizers in North Carolina, el pueblo salva al pueblo desde 2017. linktr.ee/siembranc
Steven Kohn @stevenkohn.bsky.social 
Brendan O'Meara @brendanomeara.bsky.social Host of The Creative Nonfiction Podcast ... The voice of a generation, haha ... Author of The Front Runner: The Life of Steve Prefontaine (2025) ... https://welcometopitchclub.substack.com/- T @theoluebke.bsky.social @theoluebke.bsky.social
Nate DiMeo @natedimeo.bsky.social Does a podcast called The Memory Palace
Columbia Journalism Review @columjournreview.bsky.social Monitoring the press, tracking the evolving media business & encouraging excellence in journalism since 1961.
Jonah Garson @jonahgarsonnc.bsky.social North Carolina State Senator (Caswell, Orange; and Person Counties) • Attorney • Organizer
Don Van Natta Jr. @dvnjr.bsky.social ESPN Senior Writer. NYT Bestselling Author now writing a bio of Jerry Jones for Simon & Schuster. Co-founder The Sunday Long Read. Bourbon, neat.
Anna Sale @annasale.bsky.social Interviewer. Host of Slate’s Death, Sex & Money podcast.
Tim Boyum @timboyumnews.bsky.social Political Anchor, Spectrum News NC
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National Edward R. Murrow winner
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Old North State Politics Blog @oldnorthstpolitics.bsky.social Old North State Politics blog is devoted to covering North Carolina politics, but also US politics and a smattering of whatever the contributors feel like writing about. Find the blog at: https://www.oldnorthstatepolitics.com/
Michael Bitzer @bowtiepolitics.bsky.social Professor of Politics & History; Director, @ncpolitics.bsky.social. Manager, Old North State Politics blog (@oldnorthstpolitics.bsky.social). Interested in NC politics, Southern US politics, & US Politics.
Latria Graham @latriagraham.bsky.social ✍🏽: Afar Magazine's Unpacked column, Garden+Gun's This Land column. Words in OutsideMagazine, Smithsonian &others
- M M Gessen @mashagessen.bsky.social Columnist at The New York Times. Distinguished Professor at Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, City University of NY. Author at Riverhead Books
Susan Dominus @susandominus.bsky.social Reader, reporter, sometimes runner. Staff writer for the The New York Times Magazine.
Ruby Cramer @rubycramer.bsky.social Staff Writer, The New Yorker. Formerly at The Washington Post, Politico Mag, and BuzzFeed News. Email me! ruby_cramer@newyorker.com.
suerussellwrites @suerussellwrites.bsky.social Indie Journalist/Author. "Lethal Intent" re serial killer Aileen Wuornos +"The Illustrated Courtroom". #AuthorsGuild, #IRE. Awards. Brit in SoCal. #Justice Lover. #Resister. #Democracy. #Ukraine +Mum 2 Moggies. www.suerussellwrites.com. NO DMs.
Cooper Sullivan (the one on the left) @coops2.bsky.social Southern transplant, intramural coed inner tube water polo champion
Candace Mixon, Ph.D. @candacemix.bsky.social 11/26 e-book released for my first monograph, _Fatimeh Matters in Contemporary Iran_ with Bloomsbury Studies in Material Religion; print to follow in 12/26! https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/fatimeh-matters-in-contemporary-iran-9781350588189/
NJ Peters @petersnj.bsky.social 
Sammy Feldblum @sammyfeldblum.bsky.social Geographer
Mark Schleifstein @mschleifstein.bsky.social Freelance environment reporter in the Big Easy, retired from The Times-Picayune | New Orleans Advocate | nola.com
Laura Harbert Allen @lauraharbert.bsky.social Educator, journalist, and researcher focused on the Christian Right. Proud OhioU Bobcat.
Matt Gross @worldmatt.bsky.social I'm a writer, editor, and digital strategy/ops guy. Also a runner, climber, cook, traveler, and dad. Generally ironic, with brief bursts of earnestness. ❤️ 🌶️ Subscribe to Trying!, my daily newsletter of ideas: https://mattgrossistrying.com/
Jennifer Greyber @shakshukagirl.bsky.social 
MJ Sharp @mjsharp.bsky.social - J Joanne Silberner @joannes430.bsky.social Journalist. And a bit of a hermit in the far northwest.
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Eleni Vlachos @youbigtalker.bsky.social 📚 Fiction, CNF & Op-Eds ✏️ | Reading like a writer: https://elenidvlachos.substack.com/ | #comedy skits | Drums @BelovedBinge
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Tom Maxwell @tommaxwell.bsky.social Communicator: www.tommaxwell.com
Author: https://www.dacapopress.com/titles/tom-maxwell/a-really-strange-and-wonderful-time/9780306830587/
Gods, Ghosts & UFOs podcast: https://open.substack.com/pub/ggupodcast?r=ge4gn&utm_medium=ios
Brook Wilensky-Lanford @brookwl.bsky.social Author of A GOD-SHAPED NATION and PARADISE LUST, religion writing teacher and editor, eternal student, Chapel Hill cat lady. www.brookwilensky-lanford.com
Ian Lekus 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @ianlekus.bsky.social Global LGBTQI+ human rights activist | Historian, Writer, Coach, Consultant | “Queer & Present Dangers,” forthcoming @ UNC Press | Star Trek, soccer, cats, bears, otters, puns, photography | Washington, DC
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Gayathri Vaidyanathan @gayathriv.bsky.social Labor x Tech Editor @restofworld.org, covering how tech is transforming the way we work, especially outside the west. Ideas & tips: gayathri@restofworld.org.
Marla Broadfoot @marlabroadfoot.bsky.social Freelance Science Journalist, PhD Geneticist, Contributing Editor at American Scientist, Adjunct Faculty at UNC, Board Member at NASW, Past President at SCONC, 2022-23 Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Journalism Fellow.