By Laura Echevarria, Director of Communications and Press Secretary
Substack sounds like the way paper is organized at an office supply store but it’s not. It’s the name of an exciting, relatively new publishing platform and National Right to Life is now a part of it.
National Right to Life is, so to speak, just getting our feet wet. We’ve only had a few posts so far. We may post a recent press release, a full-length article or original commentary about current events.
It’s very exciting—and it’s free!
History
Substack was founded in 2017 to support subscription newsletters, but writers have found it to be so much more. Hundreds of journalists, subject-matter experts, writers, and publications have found a home on Substack.
As newsrooms shrink, writers and journalists are turning to outlets like Substack to provide income. Some writers have managed to launch lucrative writing careers through paid subscriptions on Substack.
In addition to written content, Substack has added support for podcasts and recently added a “Notes” feature that allows for posts similar in length to those on X (formerly known as Twitter).
Just a few years ago, Substack recorded that it had more than 250,000 paid subscribers. Since then, the platform has grown both in the number of writers using it and the number of subscriptions. “Now, the company boasts having over 2 million paid subscriptions (out of 35 million active subscriptions on the platform),” according to https://backlinko.com/
There are many newsletters on Substack available for free. Authors on Substack have the option to have all-paid content, or some content paid with other content available for free.
Also, like X, Substack is committed to letting its writers write without censorship. In light of the troubling admission recently by Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, that government officials pushed for censorship of certain kinds of information during the Covid pandemic, it’s not surprising that people are turning to outlets like X and Substack that oppose censoring.
On Substack, conservative and even pro-life writers can be assured that with the platform’s aversion to censorship, there is little chance of getting “cancelled” by an increasingly hostile cancel culture. Some of Substack’s highest paid newsletters are written by conservative writers and Substack makes money by charging a 10% fee from paid subscriptions. It is in Substack’s favor to encourage writers and oppose the censorship of ideas.
Look for National Right to Life on Substack and help us grow our influence on the platform.