Breaker was founded to cover the stories that flow through downtown Manhattan — money, scandal, media, business, entertainment, technology, art, fashion, the deeply weird — in a weekly newsletter and podcast that aim to tell you things you did not already know about the worlds that matter.
We love tabloids for the sharpness of their reporting and their relentless drive to entertain you. We love broadsheets and magazines for their sweeping and nuanced tales. We want to combine both. We are totally independent, and are not partisan — we resist only boredom — and that means we are beholden to nothing except following the story wherever it goes.
We try and break through the noise, and set the agenda not follow it — we’ve made news about Donald Trump, the Murdochs, Jeffrey Epstein, Harvey Weinstein and child sex abuse at the highest levels of the Catholic Church.
We are working with Beehiiv, the publishing platform, as part of its Media Collective, which will provide infrastructure for the newsletter and this website. We plan to partner with other platforms and companies to build a network of independent journalists.