Pascal Sabino @pascalsabino.bsky.social Chicago ➡️ LA
Writer for Bolts Magazine.
Policing & Criminal Justice. Democracy. Data.
Drew @medianotjournalism.bsky.social This account is one small voice for exposing what Alden Global Capital is doing to local journalism. See the status of my Colorado consumer protection lawsuit here: https://dembot.net/ccpa-2025cv11/
Julie K. Brown @jkbjournalist.bsky.social Miami Herald Investigative journalist, author of "Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story." Philly girl trying to make my way in the South Florida wilderness. Temple Owl. Jkbjournalist on Substack.
Adam C @qedadam.bsky.social Chemist concerned about climate; former state-level clean energy analyst; current federal energy officer; he/him, AMAB; views own
Erik Wallenius @erikwallenius.bsky.social Eagle Scout, Army vet, @BarackObama ‘08 alum. Interests include data/tech, board games, epiphenomenalism. Deliberative anti-foundationalist. Don’t mistake my kindness for weakness. ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ he/him
Max Grinnell aka The Urbanologist @theurbanologist.bsky.social Boscago mayor, author, professor of things, whatever 
Glenn Thrush @glennthrush.bsky.social Ye Olde Reportere
Jim Lynch @jimrlynch.bsky.social Reporter at Block Club Chicago covering Beverly, Morgan Park and Mt. Greenwood. Proud AMC A-List Member. 2025 Fantasy Football Champ.
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max tani @maxtani.bsky.social media reporter @semafor
Crystal Paul @cplhouse.bsky.social Investigative Editor, Block Club Chicago - The Watch
Formerly Seattle Times, Illinois Answers Project.
Raised on the road. Found home in South Side Chicago.
Vanessa Lopez @vanessalop.bsky.social audience at chicago.suntimes.com
Yana Kunichoff @yanak.bsky.social Journalist @azluminaria.bsky.social covering poverty/homelessness/housing insecurity and organizing in Tucson and southern Arizona
Tracy Baim @tracybaim.bsky.social lgbtq+ \ journalist \ advocate \ chicago
lesbian \ feminist\ she\her 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🦄
Windy City Times cofounder 1985 \ author
Skeets my own.
Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social Subscribe to www.lawdork.com for SCOTUS and other legal news. / lawdorknews@gmail.com / Signal: crg.32 / About me: Sober. Queer. Bipolar. Theater. Buckeye. And, now, F1. (I'm as surprised as you are.) / He/him.
Online News Association @journalists.org Strategic foresight, adaptive leadership, and connected networks for journalism professionals to thrive through change. Founded in 1999. Join ONA26, March 30–April 1, in Chicago.
Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house. Opinions are my own (but they are correct)
https://mattdpearce.substack.com
Institute for Nonprofit News @inn.org We lead 500+ independent news organizations in a new kind of news network: nonprofit, nonpartisan and dedicated to public service.
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Richard Tofel @dicktofel.bsky.social now consulting at Gallatin Advisory, instructor @HarvardChanSPH, author of Second Rough Draft on Substack; former president of ProPublica
Stephen Montemayor @smontemayor.bsky.social News Editor for Block Club Chicago. Send me your tips: stephen@blockclubchi.org.
Signal: @stephenmontemayor.95
Matt Krupnick @mattkrupnick.bsky.social Journalist, Chicago resident and occasional TV extra. Signal: Krupnick.76
@patrick-filbin.bsky.social @patrick-filbin.bsky.social 
Mina Bloom @minabloom.bsky.social investigations @blockclubchi.bsky.social
Matt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social I write Extra Points, a newsletter about off-the-field stories in college sports. I also (badly) make computer games, woodworking projects, and jokes.
Chicago.
Ruby Bailey @rubybailey.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief, Illinois Answers Project
Cory Brown @localmustard.bsky.social FKA @tcb // I help newsrooms build loyal audiences // Past: @ProPublica @AustinMonitor @capgaznews // He/Him
Kate Myers (she/her) @thekatemyers.bsky.social Alum of too many places to list. (Hopefully) making news orgs (and small independent organizations) work better through our consultancy, Purple Pen Labs.
Kelly Bauer @bauerjournalism.bsky.social Block Club Chicago senior editor.
Tips: BauerJournalism@gmail.com
Bill Savage @rogersparkman.bsky.social Watch your noggins, everyone.
Atavia Reed @ataviawrotethis.bsky.social On the South Side beat. Nosey by Nature. Words around town. Always talking film, music and books 👩🏾💻
Francia Garcia Hernandez @franciagarciah.bsky.social Reporter covering Pilsen, Little Village, Back of the Yards for Block Club Chicago | Host of ¡Presente! | Hablo español | Mexicana
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@lizzieschifftuf.bsky.social @lizzieschifftuf.bsky.social 
Jen Sabella @jensabella.bsky.social Block Club Chicago Co-founder + Executive Editor
Ex: DNAinfo, HuffPost, Sun-Times
Lesbian Cat Lady, Chicago Lifer
blockclubchicago.org
19thnews @19thnews.org The 19th is an independent, nonprofit newsroom reporting at the intersection of gender, politics, policy and power. https://19thnews.org/newsletters
Maria Hadden @chialderwoman.bsky.social Democracy champion and Alderwoman of the Chicagos 49th Ward.
The New York Times @nytimes.com We seek the truth and help people understand the world. Not a subscriber? Your first month is now free in our app. https://nytimes.onelink.me/Xpht/zbx4nci9
WTTW - Chicago PBS @wttw.bsky.social As Chicago's PBS station, WTTW is committed to producing and presenting independent, trusted, best-in-class content fueled by a distinctly Chicago sensibility.
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CWBChicago @cwbchicago.bsky.social Chicago crime and public safety news
Samantha Smylie @sammiesmylie.bsky.social Figuring out my next steps.
Born, raised, and live in Chicago, IL. I am an avid reader and crocheter by night.
My opinions and comments are my own.
Martha Bayne @marthabayne.bsky.social Writer, editor, dancer, souper. Coeditor of NOTHING COMPARES TO YOU: WHAT SINEAD O'CONNOR MEANS TO US. Various responsibilities @ University of Illinois Press, South Side Weekly, Theater Oobleck, Soup & Bread. Essays @ marthabayne.substack.com. .
Lieberman @sollylieb.bsky.social Writer and maker and paint-marker shaker.
Former (free) local news CEO & Publisher.
Former Off-Broadway vending machine filler.
Chicagoish.
Maggie Sivit @msivit.bsky.social ✏️ Audience director at @injusticewatch.org ⌛️ Previously digital and engagement producer at WBEZ 🇨🇺 NAHJ member 📬 maggiesivit@injusticewatch.org
Jonah Newman @jonahshai.bsky.social Managing editor at Injustice Watch, a nonprofit newsroom focused on issues of equity and justice in the courts.
Kelly Garcia @kellygarcia.bsky.social investigative reporter @injusticewatch | signal: kgarci25.49
Dan Hinkel @danhinkel.bsky.social Chicago journalist at Injustice Watch. 
Lee Cronin's Clint Worthington @clintworthing.bsky.social Writer/Critic/Meat Popsicle -- assistant editor @ RogerEbert.com, editor in chief The Spool. Words: Block Club Chicago, Consequence.
Molly DeVore @mollydevore.bsky.social Covering the far Northwest Side for Block Club Chicago
Tips to molly@blockclubchi.org
Lisa Shames @lshames.bsky.social Chicago-based freelance hospitality writer (Eater, Chicago Tribune, Sun Times, OpenTable, Block Club Chicago, Chicago Mag) with a passion for telling the stories of others, the more do-goodery the better!
Afua S. Owusu @afua.bsky.social That woman from Chicago who watches too much TV. Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. 🩷💚
Mauricio Pena @mauriciopena.bsky.social Former lives: Block Club Chicago, Chicago Magazine, Borderless magazine, Chalkbeat etc etc.
Forest Gregg @bunkum.us bunkum.us
ontological expert
"using my custom formula, I would get a prediction"
Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social Chicagoan. Research interests in race, environmental justice, and transportation issues in Latine communities.
Andrew @beatorganizer.bsky.social Former organizer. He/him. Has a theory of change.
"The situation is in charge." "A dark cloud showing up to the ballpark every day..."
Not from Kauai. I just had a standoff with a gang of feral roosters one time.
whet moser @whetmoser.com newsletters @ nyt. ex qz, chicago mag, chicago reader. i'm not a miracle worker, i'm a janitor
Joe Germuska @joe.germuska.com Chief Nerd @ Northwestern University Knight Lab • Project lead @ Census Reporter • Board Member @ City Bureau • Information Design • Digital Journalism • Civic Technology
Jason Martin @jasonmartin.bsky.social DePaul journalism & media law professor
John Owens @johnpowens.bsky.social Writer/Producer/Multi-Platform Journalist/Co-Author: http://chilidogmvp.com
Jenny McVeigh @jmcveigh.bsky.social 
@stoomey.bsky.social @stoomey.bsky.social 
Invisible Institute @invisible.institute A nonprofit journalism production organization on the South Side of Chicago. Home to CPDP.co, Beneath the Surface, and more. 
Manny Ramos @mannyramos.bsky.social Chicago-based Investigative Reporter at @blockclubchi.bsky.social
Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social Professionally disagreeable senior Chicago politics reporter for @wttw.bsky.social News
Maia McDonald 💫✌🏽 @maiamcdonald.me award-winning chicago journo, funky fashion enthusiast, and pink girlie™ 💖
✳️ prev: @raceandequityproject.org | vice president of the chicago journalists association | mizzou j-school alum | find me at maiamcdonald.me and @maia.pink | views are my own
Louise Kiernan @louisekiernan.bsky.social Director of Strategic Initiatives, Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University; previously Midwest Editor, ProPublica, various, Chicago Tribune. 
AJ LaTrace @latrace.bsky.social Senior reporter at Inman
Previously: Business Insider, Chicago magazine, Curbed
aj at inman dot com
Mike Innocenzi @pantagrapher.bsky.social There is a very loud amusement park right in front of my present lodgings.
Tiffany W @tiffany.thetriibe.com EIC, @thetriibe.com
2024 John S. Knight Journalism Fellow
John Chase @johnchase.bsky.social Deputy Metro Editor/Politics @chicagotribune. Alum BGA. An editor on 2022 Pulitzer Prize winner for local journalism. Co-author of "Golden, How Rod Blagojevich Talked Himself Out Of The Governor's Office And Into Prison." Haven't left Twitter...yet.
john j. kim @jkimpictures.bsky.social 📷 @ Chicago Tribune
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http://www.jkimpictures.net
Maya Dukmasova @mdoukmas.bsky.social Senior reporter at Injustice Watch. Citizen of Flavortown. Chicago Reader alum. Send your courts tips.
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Charlie Meyerson @charliemeyerson.com Chicago news guy, itinerant flutist
Maxwell Evans @afrodip.bsky.social south shore, woodlawn + hyde park for @blockclubchi.bsky.social. kalamazoo's child. what is it, where is it, how will it affect me
Leor Galil @imleor.bsky.social Chicago Reader music writer
imleor.carrd.co
Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social Chicago Tribune reporter, 2026 Pulitzer team, author "The City is Up for Grabs." Little Village raised. I'm just trying to make my city a better place
Brandon Pope TV @bpopetv.bsky.social Emmy-winning journalist. Author of “Screening Room” film/tv newsletter: bpopetv.substack.com WBEZ/NPR contributor, host of “MAKING” podcast. TV/Movie critic. Journalism Prof at Columbia College Chi. I like sports and nerd things!
Taylor Moore @taylormoore.bsky.social Freelance journalist in Chicago with work in The Guardian, Chicago Reader, Block Club Chicago, The New Republic, WBEZ, etc. Ex-IWMF. Bloomin' onion apologist. taylorgmoore.com
Gwen Ihnat @gwenemarie.bsky.social Arts & Culture Editor at Block Club Chicago. ex-WBBMNewsradio, AV Club/Takeout. Twins/puppy mom. Opinions my own. Chicago for life. she/her Pitch me at gwen@blockclubchi.org
Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com The hardest-working paper in America.
Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com Breaking news since 1847.
Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social Chicagoan, journalist, photographer, author, copy editor, flâneur. https://www.robertloerzel.com/
Adriana Pérez @adrianaperez.bsky.social she/her/ella ✶ Environment and climate change for @chicagotribune.com 🌱 Sometimes immigration and breaking news. Notre Dame alum. Ecuadorian.
Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social Criminal justice for the Chicago Tribune, ckubzansky@chicagotribune.com. @ctguild.bsky.social. Consulting maps from earlier days
Jonathan (Jonny) Ballew @jballew.bsky.social Journalist turned Defense Attorney.
Criminal Defense Trial Attorney. Public Defender in Illinois.
Bodéwadmi Ndaw (I am Potawatomi)
Injustice Watch @injusticewatch.org Injustice Watch is a Chicago-based nonprofit journalism organization that examines issues of equity and justice in the Cook County court system. https://linktr.ee/injusticewatch
South Side Weekly @southsideweekly.bsky.social News, arts, and investigations by and for Chicago's South Side. southsideweekly.com 
olivia obineme @oliviao.bsky.social in the journalism, community media space
no longer on twitter/x
oliviaiobineme.com
thirdnook.co
YTJF. @thewayoftheid.bsky.social Embracing my villain era. Words: @blockclubchi.bsky.social
Patrick Smith @pksmid.bsky.social Co-host of Say More with Mary Dixon
cam rodriguez 🔎 @camrodriguez.bsky.social meddling kid / journalist. map nerd, midwest defender, chicago fanatic. 🇲🇽🇺🇲. data @wbez.org & requesting a lot of docs over @foiaday.bsky.social
tips? love letters? heycamrodriguez@gmail.com
Chip Mitchell @chipmitchell1.bsky.social WBEZ Chicago reporter on public safety and health.
https://www.wbez.org/author/chip-mitchell
Mobile/Signal: 312-286-9986.
Shia Kapos @shiakapos.bsky.social Politics reporter at POLITICO and author of the Illinois Playbook
Casey Toner @ctoner.bsky.social News reporter, SAG-AFTRA steward, weary Chicagoan. Bird dogging and door stopping, @illinoisanswers. Tell the truth
Amy Qin @amyqin.bsky.social data reporter @us.theguardian.com
previously in your ears at @wbez.org
Neil Steinberg @neilsteinberg.bsky.social News columnist on staff at the Chicago Sun-Times since 1987, also blogging daily at everygoddamnday.com, and the author of nine books, the most recent being "Every Goddamn Day," published by the University of Chicago Press. 
Alice Yin @aliceyin.bsky.social City hall reporter at the Chicago Tribune. Bay Area native. Chicago’s greatest instant ramen chef. Has a crush on lake michigan. ayin@chicagotribune.com
A.D. Quig @adquig.bsky.social Cook County, Chicago City Hall and Obama Presidential Center reporter for the Chicago Tribune. Hoosier. aquig@chicagotribune.com
Hannah Meisel @hannahmeisel.bsky.social Legal affairs reporter for @CapitolNewsIL.bsky.social. Voted class clown in high school, though I’d like to think I’ve reformed. hmeisel@capitolnewsillinois.com 🍋
Dan Mihalopoulos @dmihalopoulos.bsky.social Investigative Reporter at WBEZ - Chicago Public Media
Tonia Hill @toniahill.bsky.social Award-winning journalist. I'm passionate about elevating the voices of Black Chicagoans and showcasing their resilience and joy.
The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com Black-owned publication from Chicago to the 🌍
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