{"id":8501,"date":"2021-04-15T10:46:53","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T14:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/?p=8501"},"modified":"2021-04-15T10:46:53","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T14:46:53","slug":"technology-substack-is-just-following-in-mediums-footsteps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2021\/04\/15\/technology-substack-is-just-following-in-mediums-footsteps\/","title":{"rendered":"Technology: Substack is just Following in Medium&#8217;s footsteps"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:1213,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.niemanlab.org\\\/2021\\\/04\\\/substack-will-spend-1-million-to-support-up-to-30-local-news-writers&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250113193730\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.niemanlab.org\\\/2021\\\/04\\\/substack-will-spend-1-million-to-support-up-to-30-local-news-writers\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-03 18:50:14&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-09 08:39:19&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-10 19:38:18&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-27 08:46:46&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-07 00:48:38&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-19 17:22:14&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-24 04:44:30&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-03 15:02:14&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-03 15:02:14&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.niemanlab.org\/2021\/04\/substack-will-spend-1-million-to-support-up-to-30-local-news-writers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Via Nieman Lab:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Citing the success of publications like The Charlotte Ledger and Toronto\u2019s City Hall Watcher, Substack has announced it will spend $1 million to support a new group of local news writers on the platform.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The email newsletter platform joins other tech companies \u2014 Google and Facebook most prominently among them \u2014 in launching programs to foster innovation in local news or support existing news organizations. But the Substack Local program, announced via blog post on Thursday morning, isn\u2019t just handing out cash. The program will place an emphasis on paid subscriptions and achieving sustainability:<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I wish them luck but Medium was the 2010s story and Substack will be the 2020s story. 2000s story was just pure blogging and monetizing it with advertisements. It is funny though how Medium and Substack are both influencing us bloggers. Medium taught us that we could ask for donations for our free work and Substack has taught us that we can make our articles member-only and require payment for people to read them.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Via Nieman Lab: Citing the success of publications like The Charlotte Ledger and Toronto\u2019s City Hall Watcher, Substack&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"2021-04-15T14:47:04Z","apple_news_api_id":"10696f79-1cdb-4d26-b41f-489c44bc3529","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-04-15T14:47:04Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AEGlveRzbTSa0H0icRLw1KQ","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8501","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-technology","7":"cs-entry","8":"cs-video-wrap"},"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-2d7","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2186,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2011\/04\/12\/cisco-to-shut-down-flip-video-makers-of-flip-cam\/","url_meta":{"origin":8501,"position":0},"title":"\u2605 Cisco to Shut Down Flip Video makers of Flip Cam","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"April 12, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"via Marketwire: SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwire - April 12, 2011) - \u00a0As part of the company's comprehensive plan to align its operations, Cisco (NASDAQ:\u00a0CSCO) today announced that it will exit aspects of its consumer businesses and realign the remaining consumer business to support four of its five key company priorities --\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8481,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2021\/03\/25\/linked-the-mess-at-medium\/","url_meta":{"origin":8501,"position":1},"title":"Linked: The Mess at Medium","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"March 25, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Via The Verge:\u00a0 Worse, the data suggested that Medium\u2019s original journalism was not converting free readers to paid subscribers. 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