Andy Borowitz Relaunching The Borowitz Report on Substack (Exclusive)
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
Just a few months after parting ways with The New Yorker, the satirist is planning a newsletter, live chats, and perhaps even a podcast.
BY ALEX WEPRIN
MARCH 19, 2024 8:00AM
Andy Borowitz is bringing his signature political satire to Substack. Just a few months after the satirist parted ways with The New Yorker amid cost-cutting at its parent company Condé Nast, he is re-booting the column on the newsletter platform. “I always knew this day would come,” Borowitz tells The Hollywood Reporter in an interview. “When I agreed to let The New Yorker license it in 2012 I held on to the domain name Borowitzreport.com, and I kept renewing it at GoDaddy, I just kept on renewing, because nothing lasts forever and things change. And I knew that someday I’d be back in charge of my own destiny again, and that day has arrived.”
While his New Yorker column consisted exclusively of his signature comedic news-style pieces, at Substack Borowitz is planning a broader bouquet of content to live alongside those items. The core Borowitz Report newsletter (consisting of the satire he is perhaps best known for) will be free, though paying subscribers (Borowitz is charging $5 per month or $50 per year) will get additional longer-form content, live Q&As with him, as well as the ability to comment on his pieces and chat with each other.
“I’m going to be doing some special subscriber-only content like some pieces that are not in that Borowitz Report format,” Borowitz says. “For example, I’ll be covering both political conventions this summer. And as we get into the fall, and we have more like debates — I don’t know if these two are capable of debating each other — it remains to be seen, or if they want to, but I’m going to be I’ll be covering the debates… you’ll be able to watch along with me and chat with me during the debates.”
He may even (shudder) do a podcast: “I’d never actually had a regular podcast before, I always wanted on my gravestone to say ‘he never had a podcast,’ because I thought that would be a mark of distinction,” Borowitz quips. “I may ultimately now fall off the wagon and do a podcast, which is a horrifying thought that I have betrayed my own sense of standards.”
Read more: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/andy-borowitz-report-substack-1235853359/
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Welcome back, Andy. You were very much missed.
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Borowitz has many fans on DU for sure.
Suggestion to DUers: Be sure to check out his newsletter and perhaps become a subscriber if you can. This is happening more and more, and liberal writers and pundits are parting ways with their former employers.
Jeff Tiedrich was on Twitter for a long time, but after E.Musk took over it became very nasty towards non-MAGAs. Lots of Tiedrich's fans dropped out of Xwitter, including many of us DUers. So Tiedrich pulled up stakes and created a new internet weblog with daily newsletters last year. He has an inner core of "premium" supporters who pay a subscription, and the rest of us are less involved but we get his regular emails.
Best wishes to Andy Borowitz!
Glad to see him land somewhere! 
(it's been hard for people like him to do satire when the "real news" has been so bizarre that it mirrored his satire! 
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