Rushfield’s sharp-tongued missives have earned him a bold-faced subscriber list. (“I read it the second I see it pop up,” says Richard Plepler.) But can Rushfield and coconspirator Janice Min scale his scrappy newsletter into a big business?
In an industry obsessed with coverage of itself, two digital subscription newsletters, the Ankler and Puck, want to be the authoritative source on Hollywood goings-on.