The Dispatch nears 40k paid subscribers
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Narratives matter, and casting Apple as an antagonist is a losing strategy
Real media
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Ownership
Navigating conflicts is tough in media
Media's identity crisis
When everything is media, what's a media business?
The AI effect
Early thoughts on publishing after the robots take over
Newsletter growth
Substack's Reid DeRamus on newsletter growth engines and a report from CES
Hangovers
Here's to a less exuberant 2023
Audience-first local news
How Local News Now approaches sustainable local journalism
Things I learned this year
Adventures on the independent path
Trendlines of 2023
Plus: A podcast conversation with The Big Bend Sentinel's Max Kabat
Getting fitter
2023 is going