With that money, Substack was able to start giving paid deals to writers to entice them from their jobs, to come over to Substack and write there. Effectively, what happened is that they peeled off ...

Joy Reid, Jim Acosta and several other prominent media figures left corporate or mainstream positions to launch independent, ...

Ex-Politico reporter Ryan Lizza ripped his former outlet for engaging in an alleged "censorship campaign" against his new Substack blog. Lizza, in an interview with the Columbia Journalism Review on ...

The former head of 538, shuttered last year by ABC News, is building a new media outlet aimed at recapturing the defunct polling news site’s audience and building the kind of serious data journalism ...

Something curious happened while we were mourning journalism’s decline: it was quietly reinventing itself. Not through grand reforms or billion-dollar bailouts, nor through scribes deciding to all ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Jane Ferguson has won awards for unflinching reporting from dangerous lands including Afghanistan, Somalia and Yemen. So she was unlikely to be intimidated by seeking financing for a ...