Control shift: why newspaper hacks are switching to Substack | John Naughton

An online platform where journalists sell content directly to subscribers is luring eminent voices away from traditional mediaWay back in March, at the beginning of the first lockdown, I fell to wondering what a columnist, academic and blogger under house arrest might usefully do for the duration of his imprisonment. My eye fell on my blog, Memex 1.1, which has been a harmless presence on the web since the mid-1990s and a source of puzzlement to journalistic and academic colleagues alike. The ha