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In some ways, "Patreon for good journalism" is Substack's pitch. It has its good and bad aspects but no doubt it's a very different monetization model than the

• JoshTriplett 5y ago
  It's an improvement, but it assumes you already know who the best journalists to follow and support are, and you just need a way to support and hear from them. Curation is a useful service in itself; curation just shouldn't mean you get to extract the vast majority of the value.
• _jal 5y ago
  Kinda. It still tend to encourage frequent posting, which weighs against long form investigative journalism - monthly or yearly subscriptions don't work well when you might work on a piece for over a year. That, combined with risk, means some of the most interesting stories out there still need patrons with long attention spans.
  • kian 5y ago
    Those patrons are often more successful Substack journalists, these days, who double as the outlet in which they publish.