How Substack Breaks Through the Attention Economy

News Items Podcast with John Ellis by The Recount

Aug 10, 202123:46News & Politics

John interviews Hamish McKenzie, one of the co-founders of Substack. Since its start in 2017, the company has managed to upend the relationship between journalists and news outlets. A good number of prominent writers, in...

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