Yesterday, Popular Information was featured in the Washington Post as one of a handful of "news outlets reimagining political journalism in smart ways." Popular Information, columnist Perry Bacon Jr. writes, is "addressing some of political journalism’s long-standing shortcomings," including "insufficient coverage of state and local government and of people who aren’t White and upper-income" and "an over-prioritization of elections over policy."

Here's an excerpt:

Neither the grocer Kroger nor the restaurant chain Olive Garden was offering all of its employees paid sick leave during the early stages of the covid-19 pandemic. Many companies have broken their promises not to donate to Republican members of Congress who refused to certify the 2020 election results. Cameron Sexton, the GOP speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives, purchased a house in Nashville through a trust, perhaps trying to obscure that he and his family may functionally live in Music City, not Sexton’s home district about two hours away.

Those are all stories that were extensively covered by other media outlets but were first broken by Popular Information… Legum’s background has helped him carve out a unique role. He focuses on finding scandals, unlike most political writers. But he publishes regularly, unlike the investigative reporters at most large news organizations, who might only write a few times a year. 

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