Let me start by saying that I appreciate what Substack is trying to do for journalism. The promise of the hosted publishing platform is that anyone can start a subscription-based publication—primarily ...

Lena Dunham and other writers are using Substack to reach readers directly and sell more books. It’s hard enough to publish a ...

Substack, the online platform that provides publishing and monetization tools for authors and writers, is facing pushback from a group of users who say it is giving a platform to Nazis and white ...

This past March, poet and critic Yanyi was very busy. Between teaching at Dartmouth, editing a literary journal, preparing a forthcoming book, and running a creative advice newsletter called “The ...

April 7 (UPI) --Twitter on Friday began restricting posts with links to Substack, a popular writing and newsletter platform. When users tried to like or retweet posts ...

Substack’s move into comic book publishing went about as well as Marvel’s 2017 decision to make Captain America a Nazi. A big reason why: Nick Spencer, the same controversial comics writer who penned ...

As we live in a post-pivot-to-video world, it seems like every few weeks brings with it a fresh round of layoffs for writers, bloggers, and content producers. Many of them have turned away from the ...

Despite previously stating it’s an ad-free zone, Substack — like many other platforms before it — is no longer ruling out advertising. “For us, advertising is an interesting business,” Hamish McKenzie ...