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How to Save the Media
A new book about putting people above platforms
 • Hamish McKenzie
Direct relationships are the way out of this TikTok mess
Free yourself from the punitive attention economy
 • Hamish McKenzie
The home for media startups
There has never been a better time to start a media business
 • Hamish McKenzie
Substack is a social media app
Let’s just all agree on this
 • Hamish McKenzie
The power to choose
In fraught times for culture, bet on press freedom
 • Chris Best and Hamish McKenzie
A media future to believe in
$100 million to build a new economic engine for culture
 • Chris Best, Hamish McKenzie, and Jairaj Sethi
Beyond Cannes
Advertisers have had a century-long grip on media—and we got what they paid for
 • Hamish McKenzie
Standing up for free speech, even at the border
A Substack writer’s experience at the U.S. border should alarm anyone who values press freedom
 • Chris Best, Hamish McKenzie, and Jairaj Sethi
A new media order is emerging
Journalism isn’t dead. It’s on Substack.
 • Hamish McKenzie
Now streaming on Substack
A guide to the live shows streaming in the coming weeks
The sound of Substack
Presenting live performances by Andrew Bird, Margo Price, Jeff Tweedy, and dozens more
 • Dan Stone
From the temple to the garden
Participating in the birth of a new media system
 • Hamish McKenzie
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