Thanks for doing this. I wasn't a regular Splinter reader but many people I respect have recommended your work, so I'm here.
I'm happy to support journalism unfettered by "gotta hear both sides"-ism and/or private equity douchebags.
What's your peer review process? As a collective, was it difficult to nail down standards/practices (if there are any)? What do you see as your biggest internal challenges?
Hey Jacob - first, thanks for coming! It's great to hear that people are singing our praises, and recommending our work. And it's really awesome that you like what we're trying to do here, in terms of having a distinct perspective that we're not ashamed of, or forced to couch.
As for your process questions - they're very much still...in process, I'd say. In part, a lot of the work we're doing — and accordingly, the attitude, standards, workflow, etc that comes with it — was a natural outgrowth of our work at Splinter. So, we all sort of came into this knowing roughly our roles, and how best to work with one another, and what we'd need to get done to make the site tick. That said, we're still very much learning as we go, as well. Substack is a new challenge for us, in terms of figuring out what people like, what they're looking for, and how we can expand beyond what we've done in the past to offer something new, both for ourselves, and our readers.
....Which is all to say: I'm not sure, really. Some of the S/P stuff is instinctive, some is stuff that we've had explicit discussions on. I think right now one of our biggest challenges is keeping up with our readers!
Thanks for doing this. I wasn't a regular Splinter reader but many people I respect have recommended your work, so I'm here.
I'm happy to support journalism unfettered by "gotta hear both sides"-ism and/or private equity douchebags.
What's your peer review process? As a collective, was it difficult to nail down standards/practices (if there are any)? What do you see as your biggest internal challenges?
Hey Jacob - first, thanks for coming! It's great to hear that people are singing our praises, and recommending our work. And it's really awesome that you like what we're trying to do here, in terms of having a distinct perspective that we're not ashamed of, or forced to couch.
As for your process questions - they're very much still...in process, I'd say. In part, a lot of the work we're doing — and accordingly, the attitude, standards, workflow, etc that comes with it — was a natural outgrowth of our work at Splinter. So, we all sort of came into this knowing roughly our roles, and how best to work with one another, and what we'd need to get done to make the site tick. That said, we're still very much learning as we go, as well. Substack is a new challenge for us, in terms of figuring out what people like, what they're looking for, and how we can expand beyond what we've done in the past to offer something new, both for ourselves, and our readers.
....Which is all to say: I'm not sure, really. Some of the S/P stuff is instinctive, some is stuff that we've had explicit discussions on. I think right now one of our biggest challenges is keeping up with our readers!
Thanks for the detailed reply, Rafi! I'm excited to see how y'all work through it.