Global, not East Coast
100 people part-time, not 1 person full-time
Scientific depth over narrative
Media representative of the people, because it is the people.
You'll get more expertise from 100 part-time citizen journalists at $1000/year than 1 full-time journalist at $100k/year.
Substack financially incentivizes independent thinking, rather than rote repetition of narrative.
Ideally former corporate journalists do better in all senses as independents on something like Substack or Ghost.