Let me start by saying that I appreciate what Substack is trying to do for journalism. The promise of the hosted publishing platform is that anyone can start a subscription-based publication—primarily ...

The fight for newsletter supremacy is officially on, with Twitter and Facebook recently unveiling new features that, just by launching, threaten the supremacy of Substack, the reigning king of the ...

Substack is adding a live video component to its newsletter service. In its announcement post, the company positioned this feature as providing real-time audience engagement for creators. At launch, ...

A top newsletter at Substack is leaving the platform amid controversy over the company’s policies surrounding pro-Nazi content. Platformer founder Casey Newton made the announcement on Thursday, ...

The six-year-old self-publishing platform is still a magnet for writers, but WordPress and Beehiiv are vying for market share. After last year’s retrenchment, “we’re just coming out of defensive mode, ...

Andreessen Horowitz is betting that there’s still a big opportunity in newsletters — the venture capital firm is leading a $15.3 million Series A in Substack. Also, a16z’s Andrew Chen — a blogger and ...

Subscribe to our brand-new Substack channel all about the Billboard charts — a must-read for music fans, industry professionals and data obsessives alike. This daily newsletter highlights the heart of ...

Over the past few years, online-publishing platforms have made it easy for users to charge a subscription fee for newsletters. As Facebook, Google, and private equity have laid waste to print media ...

Newsletter publishing platform Substack has introduced publication sections for its newsletters, which will allow writers “to create and manage multiple newsletters or podcasts within a single main ...

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 ...