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Wrote this a little while back. Most news orgs -- especially local -- are being set up to fail in this environment. https://blog.nillium.com/news-was-never-meant-for-social-pla...

The problem with misinformation, ultimately, is that it is given a platform. We've reached an inflection point where people can truly believe these mistruths so deeply , that any f…

Of course, this is not ideal. There is a big difference between journalism and message boards -- though that isn't to say, of course, that there can't room for both. We've been wor…

This is why we're building a news platform that sets up a different incentive structure than the current status quo. If publishers aren't desperate for clicks, there is no reason t…

Substack can work for reporters who already have a following -- but we are trying to help those in local markets and earlier in their careers. From a user perspective, we're lookin…

Apologies -- For now, yes, we are US specific. This requires a lot of individual connections and deals with newsrooms and reporters, so we had to start somewhere. Hopefully we can …

FWIW, we are working on this. Almost all of the issues listed in this thread can be traced back to the way aggregators and social networks end up monetizing (or not monetizing) new…

But that all requires an informed populace. The problem with Facebook (and others, of course) is that it warps all financial incentives for the publishers, while sapping revenue aw…

This is more like Amazon diverting the money that used to go to the book authors back to themselves, and then when the authors and publishers start layoffs and go bankrupt, people …

Continuing the discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25259370

OP here: this is meant as a follow up to the comments in this thread from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25249414