2025 lookback: Quitting or fired liberal journalists opt for the independent route

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

Thurston Moore names his top 350 albums of 2025

Thurston Moore has launched a Substack and shared an epic first post, "350 Best Records of 2025".
Fashionista on MSN

Affiliate platforms see Substackers and micro-influencers as their biggest opportunity (best of 2025)

Companies like LTK and ShopMy are introducing new features to draw in everyone from niche YouTubers to Meghan Markle.
Inside Higher Ed

Op-Eds Are Shrinking as Substack and LinkedIn Newsletters Are Expanding

Local media outlets used to be reliable havens for faculty opinion articles. Now that door is almost completely shut. But there are fast-growing publishing opportunities filling the void, like the ...
Business Insider

Relationship guru Esther Perel is starting a Substack newsletter in an age of AI chatbots and ghosting

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Observer

After Shutting His Hedge Fund, Michael Burry Launches a Substack to Speak ‘Freely’ on the A.I. Bubble

Michael Burry attends “The Big Short” New York screening at the Ziegfeld Theater on Nov. 23, 2015 in New York City. Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images Yesterday (Nov. 23), Burry launched a newsletter on the ...