This piece originally ran on Casey Newton’s Substack, Platformer. We’re republishing it here because it offers a lot of great detail about what it’s like to leave a media company and start your own ...

When book critic Ron Charles was laid off from The Washington Post in February, he had a tough decision to make: Apply for a new job or commit to writing full-time for his Substack newsletter. He ...

Substack wants to simplify the search for sponsorship revenue for its thousands of newsletter writers. The platform on Monday said it debut a new stage of its native sponsorships program that gives ...

President Donald Trump launched a late-night attack on the New York prosecutors who pursued criminal and civil cases against him, declaring himself “an innocent man who has been horribly treated” and ...

Michael Burry dumped his entire stake in GameStop after the company's audacious bid for eBay , saying the deal's heavy leverage shattered the investment case he had been building. "I sold my entire ...

UK PM Keir Starmer has tried to use the horrific attack in Golders Green, in which three people were badly hurt, to justify a massive war and ‘security’ budget hike. The beleaguered PM segued weirdly ...

The professional landscape is shifting, ushering in a new wave of careers. Instead of clocking into a cubicle for a traditional 9-to-5 and buttoning corporate uniforms each morning, some new grads are ...

Nancy Harmon Jenkins in her kitchen in 2015. She isn't too worried about making a typo or spelling error in her Substack newsletter. "You know people who were Iranian ...

The Daily Beast saw double-digit percentage growth in subscribers in 2025 after starting to treat subscriptions as a “core growth engine”. Paying subscribers to the core Daily Beast website/app ...

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On March 18, an anonymous Substack account named Deepdelver published a lengthy article that claimed to have evidence that Delve had been generating “fraudulent” audit reports, lying about the ...