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For journalists

The byline is yours. The staff page never was.

For reporters & correspondents

A reporter’s name is the thing readers follow, and it is the one thing the newsroom does not host. The staff page goes dark the week you leave, the archive moves behind somebody’s paywall, and the platform account was always subject to a social policy you did not write. A .socialmedia address is the one that stays: yourname.socialmedia, with the latest work, the secure line and the way to book you.

It matters most for the two things a byline runs on. A source needs to be certain they are contacting the real reporter before they say anything at all — and an editor commissioning you needs an address that still resolves after the title on your last piece has changed.

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Kate Smith
Washington correspondent
Latest reportingThis week
Contact me securelySignal & PGP
The newsletterFridays
X@katesmith
Speaking & pressEnquiries

One address, and it outlives the masthead.

What one address does for a byline

Eight things a staff page and a platform account cannot do.

It outlives the masthead
Staff, freelance, staff again, a fellowship, a book. The address on your last four bylines is the same address, so a reader who found you at one title can still find you at the next.
A secure line a source can trust
Signal, PGP, a tip line — on a page you demonstrably control, rather than a DM request that anyone with your name and a stock photo could be sitting behind. Verification is the whole point of a first contact.
The work, in one place
Pieces across four publications, three of them behind different paywalls, one of them at a title that no longer exists. One page that collects the beat rather than whichever archive still resolves.
Proof it is really you
You hold the DNS, so the reverse-link verification Bluesky, Mastodon and others use works out of the box — and it is the same mechanism a newsroom would use to confirm a staffer. Premium adds a certified badge on the hub.
Impersonation gets harder
A fabricated quote posted by an account using your name and face is a working hazard of the job. An address nobody else can register is the reference a desk can check against in the minute that matters.
The newsletter is yours too
Most reporters now have one, and most of them sit on a platform that owns the list. Super Follow puts the audience at your address, so a move costs you the platform rather than the readers.
Commissions, speaking, rights
The professional enquiries a staff page has nowhere to put: who to email to commission you, to book you, or to ask about republication. One row each, on a page you keep.
Independent of any employer
Nothing here is hosted by the title you write for, so nothing here needs their sign-off, survives their CMS migration or disappears in their redundancy round. How Super Follow works.

Where it earns its keep

Everywhere the byline already appears.

In the byline bio

The one line a publication lets you write about yourself, and the only link most of them allow in it.

On the press card and the pitch

What an editor types when a pitch lands from a name they half recognise.

In the tip line you publish

A source checks the address before the message. One they can verify is the one they use.

On air and on the panel

Short enough to say out loud at the end of a segment, and typed correctly the first time.

The plan for a name that travels between titles

Start free on my.socialmedia/yourname. Pro is where the domain and the follower list arrive.

Pro
Free1st year — for .socialmedia domain owners, or €2/month billed annually

Pro puts the hub on your own domain and hands you the reader list; Premium adds the certified badge, which is what a source checks before a first message. See how it works.

Create yourname.socialmedia
  • Everything in Start free
  • Remove my.socialmedia branding
  • Custom template & colors
  • Private links for Super Followers
  • Get yourname.socialmedia
  • First-party click analytics
  • Your follower list, yours to export

Indicative pricing. .socialmedia is an application we filed in the ICANN 2026 round — it is not delegated, no name is registered, nothing is on sale, and final pricing will be published before any launch. Read where it stands.

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