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Channels with Peter Kafka

Substack’s next target: Local news

Channels with Peter Kafka

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Tv & Film, Business News, News

4.4585 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Substack is known for recruiting high profile writers to leave the big name publications and start their own newsletter businesses. Now it wants to recruit writers you haven’t heard of, and get them to cover local news. Cofounders Chris Best and Hamish McKenzie talk to Recode’s Peter Kafka about their plans — as well as criticism and controversy their startup has kicked up in the last year. Featuring: Chris Best (@cjgbest) Co-Founder of Substack Hamish McKenzie (@hamishmckenzie) Co-Founder of Substack Host: Peter Kafka (@pkafka), Senior Editor at Recode More to explore: Subscribe for free to Recode Media, Peter Kafka, one of the media industry's most acclaimed reporters, talks to business titans, journalists, comedians, and more to get their take on today's media landscape. About Recode by Vox: Recode by Vox helps you understand how tech is changing the world — and changing us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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1:35.9

Welcome to Recode Media with Peter Kafka.

1:37.9

That is me.

1:39.0

And on today's show, it's our second show of the week.

1:41.0

We have the co-founders of Substact, Chris Best, and Hamish McKenzie.

1:45.6

You are listening to a media podcast, so I don't need to tell you that Substack is the media

1:50.2

platform that lives in our heads rent-free, as the kids say. Very controversial, fast-growing. Maybe

1:57.7

it's destabilizing to big news organizations, maybe it's providing new outlets

2:02.8

and new ways to monetize for writers, maybe all of the above.

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