News Summary

• McKenzie is a journalist by trade, who spent much of his career covering tech startups.
• McKenzie courts for Substack such writerly talents as Bill Bishop, Matthew Yglesias, and Bari Weiss.
• Substack is a neutral platform empowering its users, not an arbiter of truth.
• McKenzie predicts that “new companies will emerge” from such subscription platforms, but thus far Substack has only encouraged further atomization as audiences gravitate toward the loudest, most charismatic voices.