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 ...
Blackbird Spyplane, a style and culture newsletter, launched in 2020 as one of the early adopters and success stories on ...
Substack will be adding features to improve the reading experience, though it’s somewhat vague about the specifics. Substack will be adding features to improve the reading experience, though it’s ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Jim Acosta, the frequent Donald Trump antagonist who was all but pushed out by CNN earlier this year, may not be the type of person you’d suspect would be a hit on Substack. In fact, when he signed ...
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 ...