Substack Goes Local, Or At Least Statewide

NC's top Substacks, according to a Google search

Blogging became a mass phenomenon in the early 2000s, launching dreams of “citizen journalists,” independent of major newspapers, making a difference. They could break stories and cover their communities as a supplement to shrinking newsrooms in legacy media. But those so-called citizen journalists mostly burned out along with blogging in the 2010s due …