Yes. Yes! It's wonderful to see Substack recognise the same potential I saw in its platform a year ago next week: not just to give independence to big-name, big-audience writers, but to provide a pre-fabricated platform where regionally based journalists who've endured years of budget cuts under chain ownership can strike out on their own and give their communities better local news coverage than what they've been getting. Yes! Love this.
Yes, theoretically. The local news model can't succeed in Italy. Hamish, you should really start thinking to a European plan, as Substack could succeed much more than you think, here (not for the local news model, anyway)
The local news model is fully covered by free daily papers, financed by local companies and having a permanent, expensive staff working on the papers. I can't do it all alone and for free. Please note that in Italy nobody reads the local news, so as the national news, so as books and newspapers. Unfortunately Italians are not great readers.
it is not a matter of readers only: it's a matter of market, processes, costs. Organisation. Etc. Etc. It is impossible to do it all alone, on my own and getting a price. Ask your friends to send me a photo of the local news they read and I will demonstrate that I am right
This is fantastic. I started The Wausonian to deliver a roundup of local news to readers' inbox once per week, with periodic deep dive, records/data-driven features, and people really love it. So I was very happy to see this. Even if I'm not selected, I am just so glad this is happening!
People’s confidence in the media has declined. People currently trust companies more than governments, media, or NGO's, ( 2021 Edelman Trust Barometer). This is the right time to empower honest journalism that is balanced focusing on what is going well.
Yes. Yes! It's wonderful to see Substack recognise the same potential I saw in its platform a year ago next week: not just to give independence to big-name, big-audience writers, but to provide a pre-fabricated platform where regionally based journalists who've endured years of budget cuts under chain ownership can strike out on their own and give their communities better local news coverage than what they've been getting. Yes! Love this.
A further initiative dedicated to USA writers and for the American business and news model. We Europeans are left alone.
Substack Local is open to applications from anywhere in the world.
Yes, theoretically. The local news model can't succeed in Italy. Hamish, you should really start thinking to a European plan, as Substack could succeed much more than you think, here (not for the local news model, anyway)
What? Why is that? Why can't this business model succeed in Italy?
The local news model is fully covered by free daily papers, financed by local companies and having a permanent, expensive staff working on the papers. I can't do it all alone and for free. Please note that in Italy nobody reads the local news, so as the national news, so as books and newspapers. Unfortunately Italians are not great readers.
Nothing is "fully covered". Never. Please note that i have a shitloads of italian friends that actually read the local news.
it is not a matter of readers only: it's a matter of market, processes, costs. Organisation. Etc. Etc. It is impossible to do it all alone, on my own and getting a price. Ask your friends to send me a photo of the local news they read and I will demonstrate that I am right
This is fantastic. I started The Wausonian to deliver a roundup of local news to readers' inbox once per week, with periodic deep dive, records/data-driven features, and people really love it. So I was very happy to see this. Even if I'm not selected, I am just so glad this is happening!
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People’s confidence in the media has declined. People currently trust companies more than governments, media, or NGO's, ( 2021 Edelman Trust Barometer). This is the right time to empower honest journalism that is balanced focusing on what is going well.
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This sounds like a wonderful initiative to push back a little against the decimation of the local newspapers.
I see the 12 that were selected in 2021.
Were there any funded in 2022 or 2023?
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We missed out in South Africa. We were unaware that we could also apply
Great plan, I believe that more people will settle here to write.
Hello. Successful applicants for Substack Local were to be announced May 20. Am I missing something?
It is good to know what's going on in the neighbourhood.
It is good to know what's going on in the neighbourhood.
Good luck to all applicants's... we feel very enthusiastic about this initiative!
I write short horror stories.
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Very cool!