The New York Times Responds to the Substack Boom
Monica Schipper/Getty Images The New York Times is readying a newsletter push as Substack comes after top journalists. Substack offered opinion writer Liz Bruenig a $200,000 advance, double her Times salary. The Times told staffers in a memo Friday that outside paid newsletters wouldn't likely be approved. When the tech writer Charlie Warzel told the New York Times opinion section that he was leaving to start a newsletter on Substack, he and his editors discussed how he could remain in an outside-contributor role. A few days later, The Times came back to Warzel. ...