How Richard Rushfield’s The Ankler Took on Hollywood

Rushfield is hardly a one-man band anymore. He and Min, who officially teamed up on Ankler Media in early 2022—Rushfield as editorial director and chief columnist; Min as CEO and editor in chief—are now part of a full-time staff of four, including a chief revenue officer and a managing editor. Those four salaries and a freelance budget are the only significant overhead. There’s no physical office, accounting and payroll are outsourced, and Substack handles the back-end tech stuff. The Ankler has enlisted a cabal of regular contributors, among them Rob Long, Peter Kiefer, Jeff Sneider, Vincent Boucher, Nicole LaPorte (Rushfield’s… Read Full Article