With that money, Substack was able to start giving paid deals to writers to entice them from their jobs, to come over to Substack and write there. Effectively, what happened is that they peeled off ...

“Alphaville is already free on FT.com so it should work well to also share the team’s brilliant journalism on Substack.” —LO ...

Joy Reid, Jim Acosta and several other prominent media figures left corporate or mainstream positions to launch independent, ...

Former ABC News journalist Terry Moran has announced his transition to independent journalism by launching a Substack newsletter, following his recent departure from the network. Moran's move aligns ...

Ex-Politico reporter Ryan Lizza ripped his former outlet for engaging in an alleged "censorship campaign" against his new Substack blog. Lizza, in an interview with the Columbia Journalism Review on ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about how good communication can lead women to success. Here’s a jaw-dropping statistic: 45 Substack publishers are ...

Writing about the failure of patron-supported journalism is itself a kind of confession. It hasn’t worked for me, and I struggle to weigh my guilt around that (should have worked harder!) against what ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about music and the business of music. Now 62, Pratt is using her cache and name to start a new venture, “Another Jane ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. A few years ago, Liz Kelly Nelson was the vice president of Vox and found herself holding the same exit interviews over and over ...

NEW YORK – Jane Ferguson has won awards for unflinching reporting from dangerous lands including Afghanistan, Somalia and Yemen. So she was unlikely to be intimidated by seeking financing for a new ...