The trending way for many media members to pursue their journalistic aspirations, either by choice or following layoffs, is through subscription newsletters, and NBA journalists are no exception.
So how’s the subscription newsletter path going for them? It varies, as with the rest of the media world, during these times. A few writers left established organizations and took a gamble on Substack, others parlayed newsletters into new jobs, some are managing, and remaining writers have multiple jobs outside of journalism.
HoopsHype spoke with Marc Stein, Ethan Strauss from House of Strauss, TrueHoops’s Henry Abbott, Scott Agness of FieldHouse Files, Jonathan Macri from Knicks Film School, Quinton Mayo of May-Oh’s Wizards newsletter, media analyst Simon Owens and other writers to explain how the subscription NBA newsletter business is working behind the scenes.
