{"id":2592,"date":"2026-04-20T13:00:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T13:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ibvl.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/why-journalists-are-going-indie-with-maddy-myers\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T13:00:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T13:00:27","slug":"why-journalists-are-going-indie-with-maddy-myers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ibvl.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/why-journalists-are-going-indie-with-maddy-myers\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Journalists Are Going Indie (with Maddy Myers)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week, Sam is joined by Maddy Myers, editor-in-chief of Mothership. She\u2019s also a co-host of the video games podcast Triple Click.\u00a0Maddy launched Mothership with co-founder Zo\u00eb Hannah in January. It\u2019s a queer and women-owned independent publication that focuses on gender and games. They discuss Maddy\u2019s early days of games journalism at a (print!) alt-weekly in Boston and then at the Mary Sue, how she and Zo\u00eb decided it was time to quit their jobs and launch their own indie outlet, and the importance of owning your own work as a journalist.Listen to the weekly podcast on\u00a0Apple Podcasts,\u00a0Spotify, or\u00a0YouTube. Become a paid subscriber for access to this episode&#8217;s bonus content and to power our journalism. If you become a paid subscriber, check your inbox for an email from our podcast host Transistor for a link to the subscribers-only version! You can also add that subscribers feed to your podcast app of choice and never miss an episode that way. The email should also contain the subscribers-only unlisted YouTube link for the extended video version too. It will also be in the show notes in your podcast player.Subscribe to MothershipWhy I\u2019m launching a feminist video games website in 2026 &#8211; The GuardianMothership and a History of Women in Games Media &#8211; the Post Games podcast<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>Maddy and Sam get into the launch of Mothership and the importance of owning one&#8217;s own work.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-container-style":"default","site-container-layout":"default","site-sidebar-layout":"default","disable-article-header":"default","disable-site-header":"default","disable-site-footer":"default","disable-content-area-spacing":"default","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,14,295],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-2592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai-and-ml","category-podcast","category-podcasts","tag-ai"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.7 - 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