The Best of Brian Morrissey
10+ most popular Brian Morrissey articles, as voted by our community.
Writing about sustainable modern media businesses at The Rebooting.
Brian Morrissey on Business
Silicon Valley's pivot to paid
Tech's marriage of convenience to the ad industry hits the rocks
Brian Morrissey on Future
Brian Morrissey on Media
Micropayments again
Pay-per-article makes all the sense in the world, unless you're a publisher
Brian Morrissey on Positivity
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Going solo
Two years in, Platformer's Casey Newton discusses the shift from journalist to solo operator
The Future playbook for sustainable publishing
The UK specialist publisher is targeting the US market
Why The Dispatch is leaving Substack
The conservative newsletter company is striking out on its own
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