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The Newsletter Economy Enters Its Consolidation Phase
The one-writer newsletter boom created thousands of small media businesses. Now the successful ones are buying each other, hiring staff and turning into what they replaced.
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Sunday, August 16th, 2026 105 stories Independent & Reader-Supported
The one-writer newsletter boom created thousands of small media businesses. Now the successful ones are buying each other, hiring staff and turning into what they replaced.
Solo publications and small newsrooms are multiplying, powered by cheap tools, direct payment rails and an advertising market that finally learned to buy small.