Popular Information
Award-winning investigative journalism holding corporations and politicians accountable, four mornings a week.
Popular Information is an investigative newsletter that has proven independent journalism can thrive outside traditional newsrooms. Judd Legum and his small reporting team publish four mornings a week, producing original investigations into corporate power, political accountability, and the gap between what institutions say and what they actually do.
With over 600,000 subscribers, Popular Information has broken stories that have been picked up by major news outlets and led to real-world changes in corporate behavior. The newsletter won the 2020 Online Journalism Award for Excellence in Newsletters and operates entirely without advertising, funded by paid memberships. Legum's model has demonstrated that there is a large audience willing to pay for accountability journalism that names names and follows the money.
