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Brian NgOctober 19, 2021

“Think of it as a Kickstarter tote bag but much, much better”: Dirt, an entertainment newsletter, is funding itself with NFTs, not subscriptions

“NFTs are the newest form of digital content. Structurally, that fits with Dirt’s scope.”

Casey NewtonSeptember 20, 2021

What I learned from a year on Substack

“The only way a Substack grows is through tweets. I am like 85% serious when I say this.”

Sarah ScireAugust 12, 2021

The New York Times is making about a third of its newsletters subscriber-only

The existing newsletters going subscriber-only include On Politics, Well, Watching, Parenting, Smarter Living, At Home and Away, On Tech With Shira Ovide, On Soccer with Rory Smith, and those from columnists Jamelle Bouie, Paul Krugman, and Frank Bruni.

Joshua BentonJune 8, 2021

A packed set of Apple announcements could have big impacts on news publishers — for good and for ill

The news alerts you send to iPhones might be about to disappear from your users’ screens. The bedrock metric of the newsletter business just got murdered. (But there’s good news, too.)

Facebook is starting a Substack competitor

Sarah ScireMarch 3, 2021

With The Recast, Politico looks to redefine who counts as a ‘politico’

The new race and identity newsletter will land in inboxes on Tuesday and Friday afternoons.

Michael J. SocolowDecember 7, 2020

Substack isn’t a new model for journalism — it’s a very old one

If Substack’s pricing precludes widespread distribution of its news and commentary, its value as a public service won’t be fully realized.

Hanaa' TameezNovember 24, 2020

The NewsRun, a daily newsletter about Pakistan, cuts through the noise of a cluttered media market

Anam Khan first started the NewsRun to help other Pakistanis living abroad keep up with the news, but quickly found that people back home needed her to make sense of what’s happening in the country, too.

Hanaa' TameezSeptember 16, 2020

Anti-Racism Daily is a newsletter that helps you read the news and do something about it

“People tend to get very outraged when there’s a death, when something terrible happens in the news, and then the conversation caves. But in the wellness community — in the world that I work in — people are really familiar with the idea of practice.”

Walt HickeySeptember 10, 2020

Defector’s Kelsey McKinney on how 2020 destroyed the concept of “sticking to sports”

“We can’t cover sports right now, or ever, as an individual and separate thing because sports are the gift we get for making our society as just and fair as possible.”

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