The short version

Sara Fischer predicted on July 21, 2020: “Newsletters are the next big thing in media.” Verdict: Called it. Fischer called the newsletter wave in mid-2020. Substack, Beehiiv, and Ghost exploded; major journalists (Silver, Yglesias, Sullivan, Smith) decamped to newsletters; legacy outlets all built newsletter products.

Prediction by

Sara Fischer

On July 21, 2020

“Newsletters are the next big thing in media.”

Follow-up

Fischer called the newsletter wave in mid-2020. Substack, Beehiiv, and Ghost exploded; major journalists (Silver, Yglesias, Sullivan, Smith) decamped to newsletters; legacy outlets all built newsletter products.

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