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#011 – How Bill Bishop cut a path from the Tiananmen Square Massacre to the inboxes of America's power brokers
Listen to Episode 11 of The Substack Podcast here Bill Bishop, author of the Sinocism China newsletter, is special to us. He was the very first…
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Hamish McKenzie
#010 - How Luke Timmerman created the top paid newsletter in biotech
Listen to Episode 10 of The Substack Podcast here Luke Timmerman is a veteran biotechnology journalist who decided to launch his own subscription-based…
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Hamish McKenzie
September 2018
#009 – Emma Beals on life as an independent war reporter in the age of ISIS
Click here to listen to Episode 9 of The Substack Podcast First as an investigative journalist, and now as an analyst, Emma Beals has been covering the…
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Hamish McKenzie
#008 – Judd Legum wants to save democracy with Popular Information
Click here to listen to Episode 8 of The Substack Podcast A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a…
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Hamish McKenzie
#007 – Jessica Lessin, founder of The Information, shares how she built a thriving news business against the odds
Click here to listen to Episode 7 of The Substack Podcast Jessica Lessin was a star reporter at the Wall Street Journal who had built her reputation…
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Hamish McKenzie
#006 - Mara Wilson, author and former child star, on how to write about your life
Click here to listen to Episode 6 of The Substack Podcast Mara Wilson became an actor as a young child, despite her parents cautioning against it (while…
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Hamish McKenzie
August 2018
#005 - Data journalist Walt Hickey's 3 commandments: write every day, deliver via email, charge
Listen to episode 5 of The Substack Podcast now It’s hard to get 20,000 people to sign up for your email list, but Walt Hickey has done it with his…
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Hamish McKenzie
#004 – Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi discusses the state of the media, his serial Substack novel, and the furor that almost brought him down
Click here to listen to Episode 4 of The Substack Podcast This week, I spoke to Matt Taibbi, contributing editor to Rolling Stone, journalistic heir to…
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Hamish McKenzie
#003 - Nick Quah tells the story of Hot Pod, the podcast industry’s biggest newsletter
Click here to listen to episode #003 of The Substack Podcast When big news shakes the podcasting industry, tens of thousands of people listen to Nick…
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Hamish McKenzie
#002 – How Ann Friedman built a career as an independent journalist
Click here to listen to Episode 2 of The Substack Podcast If you’re looking for examples of writers who have earned their independence, you’d be hard…
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Hamish McKenzie
#001 - How Tim Urban grew Wait But Why to over 30 million readers
Click here to listen to Episode 1 of The Substack Podcast I’ll admit it: I’m a total fanboy of Wait But Why. Tim Urban (the writer of Wait But Why…
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Hamish McKenzie
July 2018
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