The Substackerati
Clio Chang,
Columbia Journalism Review,
Nov 16, 2020
Sooner or later a model like this will be successful for freelance journalists, and therefore, for freelance educators as well. The question is, who will be served by the successful model. Substack, in a nutshell, allows journalists to create newsletters and to charge subscriptions for them; Substack gets paid only if the journalists get paid. That's its tagline. Writer Clio Chang asks, "will Substack replicate the patterns of marginalization found across the media industry, or will it help people locked out of the dominant media sphere to flourish?" Right now, there's no algorithm-based feed, so the leaderboards are based on actual readership - but the actual readership favours those who are already established.
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