The former CBS Evening News anchor launched a member-supported Substack, and has been working through some format changes in public. It’s an interesting example of someone who’s a professional in one field applying their skills to something very different, and being willing to build in public along the way.
Assembling a full week took too long — the Friday lift kept getting heavier — and it produced something almost too concentrated to consume. Worth clipping for anyone running a newsletter: the format that felt ambitious on day one can quietly turn into the thing suffocating the work. Dickerson’s fix isn’t more effort — it’s less structure.
