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    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.”
    Nic NewmanJune 16, 2020
    To keep readers around after COVID, publishers see hope in newsletters and podcasts
    Publishers will need to step up the personality and stickiness of their digital news products if they are to compete with platforms and aggregators.
    Sarah ScireMarch 9, 2020
    The Washington Post wants to join your group chat (and help your not-into-politics friends keep up)
    The newspaper hopes to broaden their audience for politics coverage with a thrice-weekly newsletter for readers who feel overwhelmed by the unending news cycle.
    Ever wonder why Gmail doesn’t put your newsletter in subscribers’ primary inbox?
    Sarah ScireFebruary 19, 2020
    The New Yorker’s new weekly newsletter on climate change will try to break through the daily noise
    “Climate is one of those big, overarching topics that feels essential to understand and also very overwhelming. The newsletter form seems like the right way to approach it because it narrows the focus.”
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