What I Meant When I Said Substack Isn't Cool

The platform owns the newsletter space so completely its name is a synonym for the form, writes Chris Black, but it's still ...
The Atlantic

On Substack, You Can Never Go Too Far

Normal people—with regular lives and real jobs—have soap operas and reality shows. People who are Extremely Online have Substack. This reveals a fundamental problem for modern journalism. Many readers ...
CNN

Substack’s CEO wants writers to publish what they want — even if it’s wrong

Substack has taken advantage of a new model for the internet, where subscriptions for content are increasingly becoming the norm. The website is the current king of paid newsletters, where writers ...
Slate

What Substack Is Really Doing to the Media

This week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg granted a rare, live, hourlong interview to a tech journalist, where he revealed the company’s plans for a slew of new audio products. Normally, such a scoopy, ...
Wired

Substack Is Now a Playground for the Deplatformed

What do Alex Berenson, Bari Weiss, and Glenn Greenwald have in common? They’ve all railed against being deplatformed—be it a Twitter ban or the loss of a job at a prestigious publication—only to find ...

Substack eyes Australia and New Zealand with first regional hire

Substack is making a move into Australia and New Zealand, searching for its first regional lead for the subscription-based ...
TechCrunch

What’s the TAM for paid newsletters?

News broke yesterday that Substack, the popular newsletter publishing tool, called off fundraising plans for a Series C after a raise at its price target failed to materialize. The company’s revenue ...