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The Independent hires Baragona as senior reporter

November 8, 2024

Posted by Chris Roush

Justin Baragona

The Independent has hired Justin Baragona as a senior reporter.

He will be covering the intersection of media, culture and politics. Baragona will start later this month.

Baragona previously worked for Zeteo News and was a media reporter at The Daily Beast. He is also the founder and publisher of Contemptor, a site focusing on the intersection of politics, culture and the media, and spends most of his waking hours consuming cable news.

The St. Louis-based writer previously served as a cable-news correspondent and editor for Mediaite. He is a graduate of the University of Missouri-St. Louis.

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