The New Hybrid Journalist: Independent Operators, Big Media Reach

Tech reporter Joanna Stern had considered leaving the Wall Street Journal, her journalistic home for more than a decade, and striking out on her own for some time. There were risks she wanted to keep in mind — loneliness among them — so she wrote some fears on stickers and posted them in her home office. 

But after taking the leap last month to launch her new company, New Things, Stern struck a deal weeks later with another national newsroom — one that provides the independence she craved...