The Culture Journalist

Inside the bill that could (finally) regulate Big Streaming

Welcome to music's shitpost modernism era

Coachella 2024 trend report

How the hipster economy went mainstream

Antitrust 101 for culture workers

Oscar-winner Cord Jefferson on how Hollywood became so risk-averse

Digital media's pivot to nothingness pt. 2

The fall of Pitchfork

Escaping algorithmic culture with Kyle Chayka

Inside the TikTok shoegaze revival

New Year's special: How to make creative work when you're busy with other s**t

The past, present, and future of the musical commodity

ENCORE: Lessons from the Luddites for the digital age

The decline of the digital third space, with Ruby Justice Thelot

The "Checkpoint" phenomenon on YouTube—where users shared vulnerable life updates in the comments of a specific video game soundtrack—serves as a case study for the fragility of digital history. These comment threads functioned as emergent digital "third places," providing spaces for community and memory that were not ...

Chronicling the early days of social media, with Taylor Lorenz

Towards a unified theory of the girlboss, with TrueAnon's Liz Franczak

A survey of post-pandemic nightlife, with Shawn Reynaldo

Bringing back hyper-local media with Hell Gate

MrBeast lays bare how the internet really works

There's a lot of ways to lose your house