powerBy Anna Codrea-Rado

Mar 6, 2024 | on.substack.com | powerBy Anna Codrea-Rado |Anna Codrea-Rado |Georgiana Ilie |Erik P. Hoel

A week after I got laid off from my staff job as a news editor, I sent out my first newsletter. I must confess that my initial email dispatch wasn’t sent on Substack, but only because it didn’t exist back then. When I started my newsletter, I’d been an editor at an online magazine but I didn’t have much of a public profile—a few hundred Twitter followers, no book, nor podcast. What I did have was a desire to leave editing behind and become a full-time writer.