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AT Protocol · Verified independent journalism · Beat taxonomy · Cross-platform presence

Independent journalism
found its home on Bluesky.
We mapped it.

When journalism moved off Twitter, it didn't scatter — it clustered. Beat communities formed around shared networks: climate journalists following climate journalists, tech reporters orbiting the same outlets, investigators surfacing in each other's feeds. Atlas has mapped verified independent journalists on Bluesky, organized by beat, cross-referenced against their full platform presence across newsletters, video, and podcast. This is the most complete map of independent journalism on Bluesky. It grows as we find more creators who fit our taxonomy — see how we verify, or tell us who we're missing.

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Independent creators
on Bluesky
The most complete map of journalism on the platform
Beat communities
mapped
Every major editorial beat, queryable
Combined Bluesky
following
Collective audience reach of the corpus
Median creator
following
Typical reach of an Atlas creator on Bluesky
Largest single
audience
Top creator in the corpus
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Beat Cluster Map

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How Atlas Verifies

Every creator in this index passed the same mandatory human review. No scraper can replicate this — here's what it looks like.

01 · Discovery
Finding candidates
Network spidering, referrals, reader tips, and self-submission. The intake queue is always open.
Spidering Referrals Self-submission
02 · Human Review
The intake queue
Each candidate enters the Atlas Intake Queue. Multiple reviewers evaluate independently — no single person decides.
Multi-reviewer Independent
03 · Decision
Approve or reject
Reviewers vote. Rejection categories are real and enforced: legacy, inactive, duplicate, not-journalism, out of scope, insufficient presence.
Voted Named rejection criteria
04 · Live in Atlas
Confirmed and mapped
Approved creators are added to the master database, tagged by beat, platform, and geography, and appear here.
Beat taxonomy Platform tagging Geo tagging
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Where We're Thin

Atlas maps the ecosystem honestly — including the gaps. These are invitations to extend the work, not apologies.

Know a creator, a community, or a Bluesky starter pack we should be looking at? Every suggestion goes through the same multi-reviewer human approval as every other entry in the database — we don't auto-add.

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Building on the open web?

If you're building a publishing platform, feed aggregator, or reader tool on AT Protocol — this map is for you. Atlas is available for partnership and data licensing. And if you're on the comms or research side, that door's open too.

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