A journalistic success story

Like many, I had never heard of Bari Weiss before 2020. She was employed for probably around $100,000 a year as an op-ed staff editor. She resigned after alleged bullying by other journalists because of her views.

She went to Substack and set up a newsletter which morphed into The Free Press. It grew to around one million subscribers including 150,000 paid subscribers. They grew to 25 staff, and she just sold it to Paramount for $150 million. This shows that there is a very good commercial model for quality journalism. I am one of those who pay to subscribe. They have such fascinating and well researched stories.

She has also been appointed as Editor-in-chief of CBS News , which will no doubt go down with some of their journalists as well as a bbq at a vegan retreat.