Naftuli Moster, founder and former executive director of activist group Young Advocates for Fair Education, announced in November 2022 the upcoming launch of online media outlet Shtetl: Haredi Free Press in early 2023.
Moster stated that the outlet would produce independent journalism to fill a news desert in the Haredi media landscape.
[1] Moster was the founding editor-in-chief and the website launched with one staff reporter, a non-Haredi.
According to activist Elad Nehorai, most Haredi outlets were more akin to community newspapers than journalistic enterprises.
Shtetl aimed to cover stories about the Haredi community with cultural and linguistic context other news outlets were not suited for.