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Substack • Substack’s view of content moderation
“We believe that journalistic content has intrinsic value and that it doesn’t have to be given away for free. We believe that what you read matters. And we believe that there has never been a better time to bolster and protect those ideals. Now, more than ever, publishers of news and similar content can be profitable through direct payments from re... See more
Nathan Baschez • Substack’s Ideology
Credit should be given to Adi Ignatius for HBP’s performance, but of course much is owed to its business model. Like few others, HBR has nailed a “make once, sell infinitely” approach. Case studies and courses are able to command a high price (can you imagine spending $18 for a single NYT article?), require little to no added maintenance, and are o... See more
Mario Gabriele • Harvard, a Media Company | The Generalist
We reached a head at a certain point. Our disagreements with Stuart were about what type of person should be on the platform, what they should be doing, and what’s allowed. We wanted anything to be allowed and there not to be a hierarchy, or telling someone what’s important or not. Stuart was very much the opposite, and he wanted to control the qua... See more
thecreativeindependent.com • Charles Broskoski on Self-Discovery That Happens Upon Revisiting Things You’ve Accumulated Over Time
If we want independent and quality editorial to maintain a vital place in our democracy, we have to imagine a new set of relationships between platforms, editorial, marketers and audiences. A promising innovation is already in place at one platform: Twitter.
John Battelle • John Battelle's Search Blog Marketers Have Given Up on Context, And Our National Discourse Is Suffering
I had spent the past 40 years as a journalist and ended my career believing as strongly as ever that reliable, unpolluted information is as necessary to a community as a legal system, an army or a police force.
Alan Rusbridger • Breaking News: The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now
The printed news pamphlets of the sixteenth century were a milestone in the development of the news market, but they further complicated issues of truth and veracity. Competing for limited disposable cash among a less wealthy class of reader, the purveyors of the news pamphlets had a clear incentive to make these accounts as lively as possible. Thi
... See moreAndrew Pettegree • The Invention of News: How the World Came to Know About Itself
“We came before copyright. But publishers now think of libraries as customer service departments for their database products.”