As Washington Post opinion editors resign over Jeff Bezos’s tightening control, top journalists like Jim Acosta (CNN), Richard Galant (CNN Opinion), Jen Rubin (Washington Post) and Andy Borowitz (The New Yorker) are turning to Substack.
Is this the future of independent journalism? Can writers really make money, or is the real benefit in influence – and what’s the balance? On April 15, David A. Andelman, Richard Galant and Claire Atkinson dove deep into these questions and many more in this special conversation presented by the Deadline Club, “From Resignations to Reinvention — Substack: Journalism’s New Frontier.”
Watch the virtual event below in its entirety, featuring a robust discussion followed by an Andelman-led how-to session on creating a Subtack yourself.
Speakers
Claire Atkinson, a veteran business and media journalist, began her career as senior media reporter for the New York Post, then served as media editor at NBC News and chief media correspondent for Business Insider before creating The Media Mix, a Substack and podcast with global reach. She is also working on the authoritative biography of Rupert Murdoch and divides her time between Nice and New York.
Richard Galant, founder and executive producer of the Substack newsletter Now It’s History, is a senior fellow at New America. He previously served as founding managing editor of CNN Opinion and earlier as managing editor of Newsday and New York Newsday, where he led teams that won two Pulitzer Prizes. A graduate of Brandeis, he received a master’s degree in politics and philosophy at Oxford.
David A. Andelman, created Substack’s Andelman Unleashed, and has reported from 90+ countries and has written five books. Chevalier of the Légion d’Honneur, he was twice awarded the Deadline Club Award for Best Opinion Writing for his CNN commentaries and Reuters columns. He served as editor and publisher of World Policy Journal, an executive editor of Forbes, a domestic and foreign correspondent for The New York Times, and CBS News Paris correspondent. He’s former president of the Overseas Press Club and The Silurians Press Club.
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