Mehdi Hasan’s Zeteo has 50,000 paid subscribers on Substack and is launching a UK edition that will be staffed by two full-time journalists. The company already has 15 full-time staffers.
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Apparently YouTube is funding its own late night comedy show?
Here’s the weird thing though, outside of this one website I’ve never heard of, I can’t find any other reporting that YouTube is behind this. I feel like if the company were actually making such a big move then other outlets would be rep
There’s a new startup that aims to help left-leaning creators with production and sponsorship sales. Its pitch is that progressive media needs to build up this sort of infrastructure if it wants to provide a counterbalance to rightwing media, which has a huge head start.
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One of the top food creators on Substack is using viral Instagram videos to drive signups to her newsletter. “On many of Chambers' cooking videos, she includes a simple direction in the caption: Comment [whatever she's cooking] and I'll send you the recipe! Within seconds, users get a direct message
Ok, I have a few observations on this.
The first is that LinkedIn doesn’t currently let you export your “newsletter” subscribers’ email addresses, which means it fully owns the relationship with those subscribers. In fact, I could be wrong about this, but I don’t even think LinkedIn sends your full
Fox is paying two TikTok influencers $50,000 each to create content around the World Cup in a glass cube that will be situated in Times Square.
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Capital Weather Gang is decamping from the Washington Post and going independent again.
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Data from an anonymous metropolitan newspaper found that civics-focused news that included original reporting was most likely to convert readers into paid subscribers.
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Creator Spotlight interviewed a space creator who has over 8 million followers and now teams up with NASA for videos.
www.creatorspotlight.com/p/kobi-brown
Mehdi Hasan is soft-launching his left-of-centre news company in the UK after reaching more than 50,000 paid subscribers in the US.
YouTube’s first official answer to late night has no studio walls—but it does now have a launch date.Juli
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A riveting conversation with Peter Rothpletz, founder of the newly launched Verbatim Media, which hopes to do for progressive creators what Fox’s Red Seat Ventures has done for Tucker Carlson and Megy...
Caroline Chambers is Substack's top cooking newsletter. She's turning to video and Instagram to grow her business.
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LinkedIn has shifted from a pure business-networking app to a social feed with 1.3 billion users. Internal docs show the new features it's planning.
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June 9, 2026 - The pair will be paid $50,000 each to live in a "cube" for a month in Times Square while watching all 104 matches from the FIFA World Cup and posting their reactions to the games onlin...
An analysis of billions of visits to a metro newspaper's website finds that entertainment and sports stories might generate lots of pageviews, but it's topics like government, transportation, and heal...
In the Washington region, the local weather crew has developed a cult following. Now, it will be going by Capital Weather again as an independent organization.
AstroKobi built his audience by making space easy to understand. As AI flooded the niche, he shifted from commentary to reporting from inside NASA, ESA, and CERN.
