Maya Schenwar
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Maya Schenwar
@mayaschenwar.bsky.social
Director, Truthout Center for Grassroots Journalism.
Board president, Truthout.
Co-editor “We Grow the World Together”
Co-author “Prison by Any Other Name”
Abolitionist, anti-zionist, pro-cat, pro-karaoke, Chicagoan
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Thanks for your wonderful work, October!
November 19, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Reposted by Maya Schenwar
🚨HERE IS OUR SOLUTION ➡️

My colleague @mayaschenwar.bsky.social at @truthout.org and I argue that it is time for progressive philanthropy and left philanthropy to make a serious, wide-ranging investment in journalism–and stick with it for the long haul.

prismreports.org/2025/11/19/p...
Progressive philanthropy needs to commit to funding journalism
Marginalized voices are facing new pressures amid industry cutbacks and increasing attacks from the Trump administration
prismreports.org
November 19, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Thank YOU for being such a brilliant star, and initiating this! Love you too!
November 19, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Reposted by Maya Schenwar
In 2008, "a lot of people saw online writing as something that you did for free,” @mayaschenwar.bsky.social tells Sarah Jaffe. So the staff at Truthout unionized, kicking off a wave of media organizing that helped shaped a generation’s thinking about unions

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Digital Media’s Union Wave Helped Shape a Generation’s Thinking About Unions
When Maya Schenwar and her colleagues at Truthout began to talk about...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:15 PM