Individual reporters and writers are still doing incredible, essential work at some billionaire-owned outlets. And some of those outlets still are some of the only orgs with the legal teams to best protect investigative reporting. So you'll see some of those journalists on some of these lists...
But billionaires are killing everything good in journalism. They are not our saviors and never were. Read and support independent and local news outlets. Local news these days IS national news - look at Minnesota and Texas. We have to support these outlets.
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FWIW, the only way I'd trust a billionaire to "help" save one of these legacy news orgs is if they bought it, transferred ownership to a worker-owned collective of actual journalists (not right wing Substackers), and walked away.
About as likely to happen as a cop arresting an ICE agent, so...
