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Substack celebrates one million paid subscriptions

The Atlantic jumps on the paid newsletter bandwagon with nine new emails for subscribers

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.”

The worker-owned Defector, at a year old, has over 40,000 paying subscribers and $3.2M in revenue

Facebook is starting a Substack competitor

Here’s how to turn your Gmail into Google Reader, kind of

Hanaa' TameezApril 26, 2021

With Trapital, Dan Runcie found a way to cover the business of hip-hop and make it sustainable

“It’s easy for the media and others to dismiss entertainers as just being famous, and whatever they sold was a benefit of their fame — and not necessarily the business insights that came from that.”

The Objective StaffApril 23, 2021

Centering journalists over protestors makes no sense

Plus: The Kentucky Lexington Herald-Leader’s “Clean Slate” trial, journalism as infrastructure, and the spectacle of anti-Asian violence on Instagram.

Sarah ScireApril 15, 2021

Substack will spend $1 million to support “up to 30” local news writers

“This is not a grants program, nor is it inspired by philanthropic intent.”

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