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To celebrate our 25th anniversary, we asked 25 writers we admire—from @jeetheer.bsky.social to @anamariecox.bsky.social—to reflect on a moment from the past 25 years of digital media. Read @joshtpm.bsky.social's intro to the project: Pivots, Trolls + Blog Rolls talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/the-o...

@ddayen.bsky.social on how paywalls and the privatization of information corrupted politics journalism: "Obviously the tenor of coverage changes when the core audience is investors, lobbyists, and political professionals." talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/dcs-a...

@maxrn.bsky.social thinks the most "bone-headed" of all the rules for online journalism was that it should be free. When he & his co-founders started @hellgatenyc.com, a local NYC news site, they decided to do so as a reader-funded, worker-owned publication. talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/the-f...

In 2015, at the peak of the digital media boom, law student Nathan Robinson founded the print magazine @currentaffairs.bsky.social. He makes the case for why democracy needs small print magazines for TPM’s 25th anniversary series on 25 years of digital media: talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/why-i...

I say this as a TPM subscriber and a resident of what you’d probably call a small town, but is what passes for a city in my area. I wonder if it would be practical for local journalism outfits to offer a unified subscription model. “For $2/mo more, you also get access to state government blog x”