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    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.”
    The worker-owned Defector, at a year old, has over 40,000 paying subscribers and $3.2M in revenue
    Sarah ScireSeptember 2, 2021
    “Facebook has always been where my audience was”: Meet some of the local journalists writing the first paid newsletters at Facebook
    “I just really wanted to be independent of the chains, quite frankly.”
    Julie ReynoldsSeptember 1, 2021
    The “shadow bank” that — with the help of public pension funds — is aiding the destruction of local news
    Cerberus Capital Management is entrenched in the military industrial complex and its company trained a journalist’s assassins. It also made possible the takeover of Tribune Publishing.
    Laura Hazard OwenAugust 31, 2021
    Wirecutter, which makes money when you shop, is going behind The New York Times’ paywall
    Most Wirecutter readers don’t already pay for The New York Times. That may be about to change.
    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.
    Michael J. SocolowAugust 11, 2021
    The traditional ratings weren’t great, but NBC’s Olympics showed video’s future
    Media innovations that eventually become commonplace are often first introduced at the Games.
    Sarah ScireAugust 9, 2021
    Racket joins a rising tide of journalist-owned media startups
    Minnesota’s City Pages was closed after its parent company said the pandemic had made the alt-weekly “economically unviable.” Now, four top editors are back with something new.
    Laura Hazard OwenAugust 5, 2021
    “There was a trap built into the very principles that we got people excited about”: Jay Rosen and Rob Wijnberg on why The Correspondent failed
    “It’s important to speak truth. It’s not that important to speak about truth as part of your brand.”
    Sarah ScireAugust 4, 2021
    “The puzzle turned out to be more complicated than we thought”: After four years, the Membership Puzzle Project is winding down
    The public research project analyzed membership projects worldwide. They found successful communities were fixated on learning what their members value.
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