JEMIMA KELLY
The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald, one of Substack’s biggest names, makes between $80,000 and $160,000 a month in subscriptions to his newsletter. …
Substack, a newsletter platform whose model is based on paid subscriptions, is flying particularly high. It announced on Tuesday that it was raising a further $65m from investors, in a round led by Silicon Valley VC firm Andreessen Horowitz that will reportedly value it at $650m. Established in 2017, Substack now has more than half a million subscribers double what it had in December. And some of its biggest names are making out like bandits.
Glenn Greenwald, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who in October resigned from The Intercept, the online media platform he co-founded, citing “repression, censorship and ideological homogeneity”, has between 20,000 and 40,000 paid subscribers to his newsletter, each contributing at least $5 a month. Once Substack has taken its standard 10 per cent c
Republicans still embrace the power of the ex-president’s agenda to galvanize voters and drive turnout.
By Daniel McCarthy
Mr. McCarthy has been a political editor and commentator for 18 years and has written extensively about conservatism, populism and the Trump presidency.
March 1, 2021
Credit.Mark Peterson/Redux, for The New York Times
The Donald Trump era isn’t over for the Republican Party. He is the party’s kingmaker, and two impeachments and a re-election defeat have not quelled Republican voters’ enthusiasm for him. As no less a critic of the ex-president than Senator Mitt Romney has acknowledged, he will be the party’s presumptive front-runner if he chooses to run for president again.