Tue, 2019-01-08 14:33
Sam
Substack: Influence Worth Hunting For
Add Substack to the list of platforms frustrating to PR -- Product Hunt, Stack Overflow, Reddit, Quora -- that command attention but aren't pitchable like publications. Founded in 2017, Substack is a publishing platform for indie newsletter authors. It's cool and we'll get into why, but Substack's web site is more or less a metaphorical black box.
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Are there more than 99 newsletters out there? Of course. But these 99 -- as presented in our fresh Google Doc -- are the ones that will matter most to you. We link to them, describe them, assess frequency and whether they're pitchable. Contributing editor Lindsay Ciulla delivered awesome research.
“Newsletters might be the new newspaper,” a subscriber wrote us recently. “They certainly are for me, I read a range of them ‘cover to cover’ every morning.” Newsletters also can be potent places to pitch. Which ones matter?
