Substack

Substack, the newsletter start-up that has attracted prominent writers including George Saunders and Salman Rushdie, laid off 13 of its 90 employees on Wednesday, part of an effort to conserve cash amid an industrywide funding crunch for…

Substack, the ballyhooed newsletter platform that has lured prominent writers with the promise of cashing in on their relationships with readers, has dropped efforts to raise money after the market for venture investments cooled in recent…

In especially bad news for those who try to reach Inbox Zero, Substack had a problem today that sent out some of the platform’s newsletters for a second time. Verge contributing editor Casey Newton noted it sent out a second copy of the…

“I mean, if I were publishing a book, I’d get more money,” he said.He still plans to hold back his big swings for the traditional outfits and is at work on a novel to be published by Random House.Daily Business BriefingUpdated Aug. 30,…

The filmmaker and left-wing provocateur Michael Moore has a new venue for his work: the digital newsletter platform Substack.The first edition of his newsletter came out on Tuesday. Newsletters seem to be the latest rage in publishing and…

In recent years, dozens of top journalists, historians and essayists have tried their luck as solo practitioners on Substack, the digital newsletter platform that has built an audience of more than 500,000 subscribers since it started in…