WordPress.com is taking on Substack and others with today’s news that its Newsletter product will now support paid subscriptions and premium content. First launched in December, WordPress.com ...

About a year ago, writer and University of Berkeley professor Grace Lavery accepted a six-figure deal from Substack, under the newsletter platform's Pro scheme. At the end of January this year, Lavery ...

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 ...

Today, Substack officially rolled out Notes, the product that creates a feed that allows Substack creators and subscribers to interact. It functions so much like Twitter that it controversially caused ...

Haley Nahman was having a weird time. She had spent most of the pandemic inside, shuttling around the one-bedroom apartment she shares with her partner, Avi. “Not to paint too bleak a picture, but ...

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 ...

Substack has attracted a number of high-profile writers to its newsletter platform — and it’s not a secret that the venture-backed startup has lured some of them with sizable payments. For example, a ...

Blackbird Spyplane, a style and culture newsletter, launched in 2020 as one of the early adopters and success stories on ...

Users are unable to embed tweets on Substack or retweet the platform’s links on Twitter. Image: T. Schneider-Shutterstock / Gizmodo Like a voodoo doll that’s been poked and prodded by an ...