I think substack is a great tool for a bootstrapped local newspaper i’ve been using it for 18 months and i like it. all one needs to start a paper is an iphone a nikon and a city council schedule. substack is free canva is like $10 these massive efforts to “save” local journalism (jcpa 🤮) are a bit cart before the horse imho. but. hey i…
I think substack is a great tool for a bootstrapped local newspaper i’ve been using it for 18 months and i like it. all one needs to start a paper is an iphone a nikon and a city council schedule. substack is free canva is like $10 these massive efforts to “save” local journalism (jcpa 🤮) are a bit cart before the horse imho. but. hey if substack really wants to help local journalism give us editable CLASSIFIEDS and the ability TO SELL, DESIGN, PLACE and BILL custom Ads.... I think a placeholder on Posts, a Canva integration ...maybe an Asana or Slack integration for Customer Ad Proofing ...and the ability to bill via existing Stripe integration...well that would do more to solve local journalism problems than a years worth of front page redesigns for Bari’s Empire.
I think substack is a great tool for a bootstrapped local newspaper i’ve been using it for 18 months and i like it. all one needs to start a paper is an iphone a nikon and a city council schedule. substack is free canva is like $10 these massive efforts to “save” local journalism (jcpa 🤮) are a bit cart before the horse imho. but. hey if substack really wants to help local journalism give us editable CLASSIFIEDS and the ability TO SELL, DESIGN, PLACE and BILL custom Ads.... I think a placeholder on Posts, a Canva integration ...maybe an Asana or Slack integration for Customer Ad Proofing ...and the ability to bill via existing Stripe integration...well that would do more to solve local journalism problems than a years worth of front page redesigns for Bari’s Empire.