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San Francisco-based Hamish McKenzie, Chris Best and Jairaj Sethi are the co-founders of the email newsletter platform Substack, which has seen its active writers more than double since the start of the pandemic. Substack hide caption

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Tired Of The Social Media Rat Race, Journalists Move To Writing Substack Newsletters

December 2, 2020 • The San Francisco startup has doubled its writers since the pandemic started. Some high-profile journalists have left full-time jobs at major publications to give it a go at the buzzy newsletter.

Tired Of The Social Media Rat Race, Journalists Move To Writing Substack Newsletters

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