Substack today has somewhere north of 500,000 paid subscribers, which represents a meteoric growth rate but is still just a fraction of, say, the New York Times’ 7.5 million.

The popular newsletter service is changing the media business—and selling soap operas to people who think they’re above soap operas.

Indeed, eight years after its conception, Substack somehow still feels like it's in the 'utopia' stage. I attended a party for Substack writers last week, where the wonder was palpable. Writers ...

Substack has taken advantage of a new model for the internet, where subscriptions for content are increasingly becoming the norm. The website is the current king of paid newsletters, where writers ...

As our design editor Daniel John recently stated, Substack is the best place on the internet. I happen to agree, and after much deliberation, I recently started my first Substack about having ...

“By definition, the people thriving on Substack are the very sort whose work gets readers to pull out their credit cards and subscribe. The threat it poses to news, then, is best understood as an ...

Substack enters new territory with the launch of Substack Notes. Can it handle content moderation, running a consumer product, and beefing with Elon Musk and Twitter?

Substack also has a program in the works that will focus on local news reporting, according to McKenzie. “Stay tuned,” he said.

News broke yesterday that Substack, the popular newsletter publishing tool, called off fundraising plans for a Series C after a raise at its price target failed to materialize. The company’s ...

Substack has taken advantage of a new model for the internet, where subscriptions for content are increasingly becoming the norm. The website is the current king of paid newsletters, where writers ...