Casey Toner @ctoner.bsky.social News reporter, SAG-AFTRA steward, weary Chicagoan. Bird dogging and door stopping, @illinoisanswers. Tell the truth
Meredith Newman @meredithnewman.bsky.social investigative reporter for @illinoisanswers.bsky.social. being nosy. mnewman@bettergov.org
Maggie Dougherty @maggiedough.bsky.social Chicago energy + investigative reporter for @capitolnewsil.bsky.social
@medillschool.bsky.social grad • professionally nosy • she/her • on signal at maggie_dough.26 • opinions my own etc etc
Ellie Jay @elliejaywrites.bsky.social I'm a British Indie Author with a flair for sarcasm, a weird sense of humour, and four thrilling books for you to check out. Find my work (and me) across platforms: https://elliejaywrites.carrd.co/
Lucy Parsons Labs @lucyparsonslabs.com Chicago-based collaboration between data scientists, transparency activists, artists, & technologists that sheds light on the intersection of digital rights and on-the-streets issues.
https://linktr.ee/lucyparsonslabs
Marc A. Levin @marclevin.bsky.social Chief Policy Counsel, Council on Criminal Justice. Advancing public safety, individual liberty, and equal justice for all.
Addison Wright @addisonwright.bsky.social Aurora city government reporter for the Beacon-News and Chicago Tribune. Previously Daily Southtown. Covered state politics in Springfield. Lived in AVL, NC. From Nashville, TN.
Janelle O’Dea @jayohday.bsky.social Reporter for @illinoisanswers.bsky.social. Tell me what happened.
jodea@illinoisanswers.org, Signal at jayohday.11
Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social Criminal justice for the Chicago Tribune, ckubzansky@chicagotribune.com. @ctguild.bsky.social. Consulting maps from earlier days
armando l sanchez @mandophotos.bsky.social Photojournalist for the @chicagotribune. Born in ATX. Still getting used to the cold. Breakfast taco enthusiast. No such thing as bad light or small stories.
The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social An independent, nonprofit, award-winning publication dedicated to investigative and data driven journalism on environmental and climate justice in the United States. Subscribe for free at
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press Protecting, defending public interest journalism in the 21st century.
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Staff, board members and allies in our Starter Packs.
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adamatomic @adamatomic.bsky.social Independent game maker and industry mentor. @finjico.bsky.social co-founder and director on https://usualjune.com/
More games and talks and things at https://adamatomic.com/
whet moser @whetmoser.com newsletters @ nyt. ex qz, chicago mag, chicago reader. i'm not a miracle worker, i'm a janitor
Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social I'm that YouTuber who taught you how dishwashers work. Guess I'm tryin' out the whole Bluesky thing now.
he/him
https://www.youtube.com/technologyconnections
Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social Long Time Internet Guy
Godot Engine @godotengine.org Your free, open-source game engine 🎮🛠️
Develop your 2D & 3D games, cross-platform projects, or even XR ideas!
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Flashes App 🌩️ @flashes.blue A photo viewing client for u from the creator of @skeetsapp.com & @bluescreen.blue
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Android: Not available yet
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Public Grids @publicgrids.org We bring grassroots organizing and sector-leading expertise together to expand public power across the country.
⚡️ publicgrids.org
Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social Co-founder and reporter @aftermath.site. Beats: labor, livestreaming. My book about Twitch, Stream Big, is available now. Formerly: The Washington Post. Send tips to nathan@aftermath.site or nathangrayson.666 on Signal
tobyfox @tobyfox.undertale.com chicken
Mike Quigley @quigley.house.gov Representing Illinois' 5th District. House Appropriations & Intel Member, amateur hockey player, and proud Cubs fan. He/Him.
Josh.Evans @jevan06s.bsky.social President/CEO of IARF - disability & behavioral health services advocate. What else.....
Leigh Giangreco @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
The Associated Press @apnews.com Advancing the power of facts, globally 🌎
Fred Stafford @fredstaffordcs.bsky.social STEM professional, socialist, @jacobin, @catalyst_theory, @thenation, @TheBTI contributor. @damagemag editor. Interested in decarb, tech, power sector, labor.
Substack: www.publicpowerreview.org
Email: fred@publicpowerreview.org
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com Independent journalist, SnapStream brand ambassador, and publisher of the Public Notice newsletter https://www.publicnotice.co/subscribe
Jon Wesley Huff @jonwesleyhuff.bsky.social Writer. Novels. Scripts. Comics. 🏳️🌈.
Latest Book: The Master of Shearhaven
https://linktr.ee/jonwesleyhuff
Joshua Wood @joshuawood.net geriatric millennial joshuawood.net/bsky
co-founder @honeybadger.io
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software • information • systems • dystopia • hope
signal: joshuawood.17
Zach D Roberts @zdroberts.bsky.social writer/photojournalist/loves movies
Writing: Visu.News
Portfolio: ZDRoberts.com
Movie Talk: ECVPodcast.com
Signal: @ZDRoberts.81
Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social Bestselling author of THE UNDERTOW: Scenes from a Slow Civil War; THE FAMILY, also a Netflix series; C Street; THIS BRILLIANT DARKNESS; & SWEET HEAVEN WHEN I DIE. AI stole them all. Professing @ Dartmouth. That's not my cat.
Jessica Christian @jachristian.bsky.social Garden-loving photojournalist for the San Francisco Chronicle with a very loud Bengal cat.
📍Oakland, CA
jessicachristianphoto.com
Ellen Schmidt @photoellen.bsky.social Photojournalist at MinnPost
@minnpost.bsky.social
Pictures are magic, dogs are better. Posting what I'm seeing & reading.
Andrew Dolph @andrewdolph.bsky.social Staff Photojournalist, Akron Beacon Journal | Board President, Ohio News Photographers Association @onpa_1951 | Alumnus, @RITtigers
Nathan Howard @nathanhoward.bsky.social Freelance photojournalist based in Washington D.C., covering politics, extremism and climate change.
Frequently for The Associated Press, Bloomberg, Getty, and Reuters.
Cam Pollack @kcallop.com National & Washington Photo Editor at The Wall Street Journal
Jovelle @jovelle.bsky.social documentary photographer in seattle. visuals editor at @propublica.org
Lonely Tower Film & Media @lonelytower.bsky.social Independent Media Productions YouTube - http://youtube.com/@lontower767 News & Documentaries include - Defiant, Hollowed Ground, and Iron & Steam
📌 North East England
Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social Freelance journalist & photojournalist covering Syria, the Middle East, and breaking global news.
Coffee: https://ko-fi.com/faredalmahlool
Greg Hauenstein @greghauenstein.com Freelance photojournalist and founder of Moonshot Images. I'm also a 9-5 web developer, musician, and a long-suffering Pittsburgh Pirates fan.
https://greghauenstein.com
https://moonshotimages.com
Sandi Bachom 📹🎥🎬 @sandibachom.bsky.social Self-funded Visual Journalist 🎥 Credentialed Press 📹 Eyewitness 📹 To Support My Work: venmo.com/u/sandi-bachom
paypal.me/sandibachom
Leon Neal @leonneal.com Staff editorial photojournalist for EMEA region with Getty Images, based in London. Europe Ambassador with Nikon cameras, and 3LeggedThing tripods. Insta: @leonnealphoto
Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social Photographer, Chicago guy, punk rock nostalgia keeper. Sometimes I still write things too.
www.aaroncynic.com
Dominic Gwinn @dominicgwinn.com Freelance photojournalist. 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 Seen in AP, Getty, Reuters, WaPo, WSJ, NPR, DW, Der Spiegel, Le Point...
No flash, hold fast.
DominicGwinn.com = portfolio/prints
dominicgwinn.01 = Signal
Dominic(at)DominicGwinn(dot)com
Email for licensing/assignments.
john j. kim @jkimpictures.bsky.social 📷 @ Chicago Tribune
✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
http://www.jkimpictures.net
shortlittlekidd @shortlittlekidd.bsky.social cat lady photojournalist @kansascity.com, fueled by lavender matcha lattes | SFSU alumna | 🇲🇽🇬🇹
emilycuriel.com
Erick Doxey @erickdoxey.com Spokane-based photojournalist.
Latest work: erickdoxey.com/links
Signal: erickdoxey.01
Young Kwak @youngkwak.bsky.social Photojournalist and sports photographer available for hire. Based in Spokane, WA. My photo portfolio is at https://www.youngkwak.com/Portfolio
Kori Suzuki @korisuzuki.bsky.social Staff reporter at KPBS, @npr.org + @pbs.org in San Diego. Covering South Bay and the Imperial Valley. Signal: korisuzuki.36
Madeline Carter @madelinepcarter.bsky.social Staff photojournalist & resident swiftie at the Las Vegas Review-Journal/ @reviewjournal.com. Don’t be all hat and no cattle. ✨🏜️🎰🤠🪩 Instagram: madelinepcarter
Kylie Cooper @kyliecooper.bsky.social freelance photojournalist in providence/boston 🌊 previously Baltimore Banner, Seattle Times, Texas Tribune. she/her. www.kyliecooper.com
Jose Carlos Fajardo @fuzyjoe.bsky.social I’m a photojournalist with 32 years experience. Part of a team of journalist that were awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2017 for Breaking News Reporting. Adjunct professor teaching photography at Las Positas College.
Jon Levy @foto8.bsky.social Photojournalists, Photo Editor, foto8.com, Sailor.
Michael Zajakowski @mzajakowski.bsky.social Photo editor and director of photography, Chicago/Midwest US. Co-founder, Prism Photo Workshop. Former director of photography, CHICAGO magazine.
Brian Kaiser @briankaiser.bsky.social Freelance photographer documenting the colorful characters, politics, and subcultures of the American Midwest. Work in NYTimes, Nat Geo, WSJ, Outside, Bloomberg, Bon Appetit, PAPER
www.brian-kaiser.com IG: brianmkaiser
Justin Sullivan @sullyfoto.bsky.social Los Angeles-based Getty Images staff photojournalist.
Work: www.gettyimages.com/editorial
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sullyfoto/
Sam Owens @samowens.bsky.social Photojournalist based in Texas 📸
San Antonio Express-News ✨
Samowensphoto.com
Robert Cohen @kodacohen.bsky.social Kinda retired. Formerly @stltoday, @memphisnews and another newspaper that is now a Holiday Inn. WhoDat faithful. Pulitzer Prizer.
www.kodacohen.com
Ethan Weston @ethanweston.bsky.social Staff visual journalist at the Keene Sentinel. Formerly the Buffalo Bulletin, Jefferson City News Tribune, the Chesapeake Bay Program and Columbia Missourian.
Mizzou grad x2
MPW.74, EAWXXXIV
Green Street Photo Collective @greenstreetphoto.bsky.social A space by photographers, for photographers in Boston
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/greenstphoto/green-street-photo-collective
Julius Shieh (he/they) @juliusshieh.bsky.social Freelance photojournalist based in Madison, WI. Member @nppa @aaja, EAW XXXVII. Previously @wisconsinwatch @texas_tribune @kut_austin @thedailytexan .
Send a tip: juliusshieh@protonmail.com www.juliusshieh.com
Ryan Michalesko @ryanmichalesko.bsky.social 📍madison, wisconsin
Shelby Lum @shelbylum.bsky.social Staff video journalist at AP health & science. Prev. making videos at the Boston Globe and the Richmond Times-Dispatch 📰🎥 Ohio State alum.
Caitlin O’Hara @caitlinohara.bsky.social www.caitlinohara.com
Yorkshire-born photojournalist in the Sonoran desert with juntosphoto.com
🦂🏜️🪲🦇❤️🔥 🌵🦉
Erin Hooley @erinhooley.bsky.social Photojournalist
www.erinhooley.com
www.instagram.com/malarchy/
Nick Oxford @nickoxford.bsky.social Freelance photojournalist in OKC
2022 Pulitzer Prize Winner
Frequent contributor to @nytimes @washingtonpost @reuters
www.nickoxfordphoto.com
Mikala Compton @mikalacompton.bsky.social 📍Austin, TX
KC native
Photojournalist / Austin American-Statesman
Daniel Shular @danielshular.bsky.social Freelance photojournalist. Mizzou alum. He/him. For tips contact me at danshular@protonmail.com or on Signal at danshular.58
https://linktr.ee/danielxshular
https://www.danielshular.com/
Kent Porter @kpphotos.bsky.social Photojournalist with the Santa Rosa Press Democrat. Proud dad of a great son. Fire photographer, avid wx geek and storm chaser.
Genna Martin @photogenna.bsky.social Photo editor/photojournalist in Seattle 
Akili Ramsess @eyeakili.bsky.social Photojournalist, editor, and hard riding Harleyista
eyeakili.com
Kent @kentnish.com @AFP.com Staff Photojournalist working across North America, based in Washington, DC.
Chet Strange @chetstrange.bsky.social Colorado-based visual storyteller.
strangevisuals.com
Billy Calzada @calzadaphoto.bsky.social I wield the gentle power of the camera; value humanity and nature, thankful for numerous second chances 🙏🏽. Photographer at Calzadaphoto.com. Nikon Z8 Sony RX10iv iPhoneography. Scale models, baseball, photojournalism
Kaitlin Newman @kaitlinobscura.bsky.social Staff Photojournalist at @thebaltimorebanner.com
www.kaitlinnewman.com / IG @KaitlinObscura
Jacob Spetzler @jspetzler.bsky.social Freelance photographer from the Western Slope of Colorado
University of Hartford low residency photo MFA candidate ‘25
www.jacobspetzler.com
Christopher Michel @christophermichel.com Photographer and explorer. Usually found with a camera, a dog, or a boarding pass.
Lia ⚾️🛩️📸 @compacflt.bsky.social NYC broadcast journalism & english student from norcal. work in the aerospace industry primarily. I write, take pictures, & opine on baseball, airplanes, books, movies etc. Currently drafting a novel about the death of the Wild West. header pic is my own!
AJ Mast @ajmast.bsky.social Photographer, Photojournalist, Editor, GIANT Workflow Geek
Indianapolis based
Adriana Zehbrauskas @adrianazehbrauskas.bsky.social Photojournalist
Contributing photographer to the VII Foundation
https://theviifoundation.org/profile/adriana-zehbrauskas/
Paul Ingram @pmingram.tucsonsentinel.com Senior Reporter with the Tucson Sentinel covering politics, border & immigration issues, environment, etc.
“Who’s the guy with the beard that talks fast? He’s cool, he’s funny.”
Member NPPA, IRE, NAHJ, Arizona Press Club.
“Resist, much love”
Jintak Han @jintakhan.com Photojournalist and picture editor in Seoul
Former photo editor, @washingtonpost.com
Member of @diversifyphoto.bsky.social
Trained linguist. 🗣🇰🇷🇺🇸🇯🇵
Talia Sprague @taliaspraguephotography.com Crazy person masquerading as a photojournalist. | she/they | Chicago, Ill photojournalist | Past: @chicagotribune, @montanastandard, @virginianpilot | 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
khadim @khadimbaluch.bsky.social Baltimore-based educator. Follow for documentary photography 🎞️ and leftist takes 🇵🇸
Zubaer Khan @zubyyy.bsky.social Dad of 2 wild boys.
Visual Journalist @ Chicago Sun-Times
Previously @ CNN, Google, NowThis, ABC News & more
I like to be a beginner. Current project: running
Matthew Cicanese @matthewcicanese.bsky.social Deafblind Fine Art Photographer
#NatGeoExplorer
Canon USA Photographer & Writer
Keynote Speaker & Corporate Trainer
Forbes 30 Under 30 (Art & Style)
iLCP Associate Fellow
Business Consultant & AI Advisor
https://Cicanese.org/
Dia Miller @diandraann.bsky.social 🏀Photographer | writer | storyteller | Sports Fan
(Currently LA Sparks 📸)
@diandraann on twitter
@diandra.ann on Instagram 
Juliana Yamada @julianayamadaphoto.bsky.social @latimes photo fellow & @womenphotograph mentee
IG: @julianayamadaphoto & www.julianayamada.com
Wesley Verhoeve @readprocess.co Photographer, independent curator (formerly ICP), photo book maker, newsletter writer.
Published by New York Times, National Geographic, Wired, etc.
ReadProcess.co — newsletter
NewStyle.co — my new book
Wesley.co — portfolio
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Rep. Kelly Cassidy @kmcchicago.bsky.social Only openly gay member of the IL House, mom of 3 adult sons, a bunch of cats, and a gigantic dog. Abortion defender for every gender.
Stephanie Kifowit @skifowit.bsky.social Stephanie Kifowit is a mom, USMC Veteran, former financial advisor & Aurora Alderman and current Democrat State Representative.
Stephaniekifowit.org
Rep Joyce Mason @repjoycemason.bsky.social State Rep, Illinois 61st District
State Rep. Tracy Katz Muhl (D-57) @staterepkatzmuhl.bsky.social Proudly representing Illinois' 57th District in the Illinois House of Representatives!
State Rep. Terra Costa Howard @reptch42.bsky.social This is my government account, where I share news about Illinois District 42 and the great people I represent in Springfield!
Illinois House Democratic Caucus @housedemsil.bsky.social Official Page for the Illinois House Democratic Caucus.
Senate President Don Harmon @harmonil.bsky.social Illinois Senate President representing the 39th Senate District. Oak Park native. Guitar player. Champion of working families, education and clean energy jobs.