“In 2023 Reach launched around a dozen paid-for newsletters on Substack as an experiment and this year so far it has launched more than that number again, but this time for free…Thompson said the ...

But many of these independent local news publishers have found that they are facing fresh issues of their own. When Raskin started, nobody really knew what Substack was, she said. Now, the name ca ...

Now, the feature is open to every Substack publisher who wants to go live. The only primary requirement besides needing an account is having at least 10 free subscribers. Publishers who go live ...

That's forcing publishers, for the first time, to want complete ownership of their work and the complete ability to reach people." "When people come to Substack and they see the power of ...

A newsletter about national politics or technology, he said, stood to benefit from Substack’s large user base. “The difference for us, and for other local publishers, is we’re only looking ...

Substack removed five newsletters for violating ... rules or proactively remove content from neo-Nazis or far-right publishers, despite facing backlash from other writers on the platform for ...

A Substack news publisher is bundling local and national news into its subscription offering, as it brings two more titles to the newsletter platform. All titles offer a large amount of free content.

Its model has inspired other similar, entrepreneurial efforts within UK local news. There are trade-offs when working on Substack, though. Publishers part with 10 per cent of subscription revenue, in ...