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Are Substack newsletters the future of journalism?

Recode Daily

Recode

Society & Culture, Science, Technology

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2020

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Email may seem old fashioned these days, but Substack -- an email newsletter service -- is growing in popularity. Recode’s Peter Kafka explains why so many writers are leaving their full-time jobs at media companies to try and make it on their own, bringing their writing straight to your inbox. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:42.0

Every few days, some prominent reporter

0:44.8

will announce that they're leaving their big fancy media company

0:47.7

and going at it alone.

0:49.6

They're making their own publication

0:51.2

and they ask you to subscribe to their email newsletter.

0:54.9

That's hosted by a company called Substack, but it all feels really old-fashioned using

1:00.3

email. And what I wonder is if this is just some fringe idea or if this is the future

1:05.2

of media unfolding before our eyes. Here to answer this question of why would anybody do this?

1:11.5

As recodes Peter Kafka, hey Peter.. Hey Teddy. So let's just start with the basics. What is substack?

1:17.4

Substack is a service that is supposed to help writers, maybe someone like you,

1:22.2

Teddy, create and distribute their

1:24.0

own newsletters. And if they want to sell those newsletters, it will help them sell those newsletters

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