The media industry has been among the hardest hit by the pandemic. In the U.S., the media industry was besieged by more than 30,000 job cuts in 2020—an increase of more than 200% over 2019 levels.
With the exception of the presidential election, its aftermath, and the many stories about coverage thereof that grew out of it, there have been few stories about the media that have gotten as much ...
It’s been nearly 40 years since the Columbus Dispatch teamed up with CompuServe to put the first newspaper on the Internet. In those 40 years, news organizations have yet to find a proven solution for ...
Many writers have turned to Substack in recent years as a way to directly reach their readers, a sensible decision with cutbacks in media budgets around the world. On late Thursday night and early ...
Substack, the flourishing four-year-old newsletter company, has always touted itself as a savior. It was a way to make real money from writing without the hand-to-mouth hustle of freelancing. You ...
“If you’re a Twitter employee who’s considering resigning because you’re worried about Elon Musk pushing for less regulated speech… please do not come work here.” UPDATE: Response from Substack VP of ...
The San Francisco-based newsletter platform plans to spend north of $30 million to entice big comic scribes to leave publishers — and let them keep rights to their own IP: “They are paying for names.” ...
A day after ABC News parted ways with longtime correspondent Terry Moran following his “world-class hater” tweets about Donald Trump and Stephen Miller, Moran announced that he was joining the growing ...
Subscription newsletter platform Substack poked fun at Twitter employees angry over Tesla CEO and SpaceX founder Elon Musk becoming the largest stakeholder in the social media company this week.