Substack now lets you follow writers, offering a way for you to keep tabs on what a writer is doing without having to subscribe to their newsletter. The company has been dabbling more with social ...

Substack, founded in 2017, has grown in influence as a hub for independent writers online. It offers a streamlined process for setting up an email newsletter and allows writers to charge for ...

Some progressive journalists argue that Substack is a scam. But there’s nothing wrong with the newsletter platform that isn’t wrong with the modern media industry writ large.

Last evening, Axios reported that Substack is “raising $65 million in new venture capital” at a valuation of “around $650 million.” As you’ve already guessed, Axios goes on to report ...

Updated at 8:40 p.m. ET on January 11, 2024. T he newsletter-hosting site Substack advertises itself as the last, best hope for civility on the internet—and aspires to a bigger role in politics ...

Hamish McKenzie materialized from a balcony looking over the lobby of the Line hotel in Washington, D.C., on Saturday night. The Substack co-founder and “chief writing officer” had flown in ...

The publishing platform’s founders want Substack to be an “alternate universe on the internet.” But it faces copycat rivals, an exodus by writers and a need to move beyond newsletters.

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. When the writer Ryan Broderick joined Substack in 2020, it felt, he told me, like an “oasis.” The email-newsletter platform gave him a direct line to his ...

Substack is establishing itself as a neutral provider of content, Professor Usher said, but that also sends a message: “We’re not going to try to police this problem because it’s complicated ...