Toby Stock
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Toby Stock is an American legal scholar and co-founder of center-right online media company The Dispatch.{{cite news |last1=Lippman |first1=Daniel |title=Sarah Isgur joins conservative media startup as staff writer |url=https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/19/sarah-isgur-conservative-media-startup-writer-071599 |access-date=6 May 2021 |publisher=Politico |date=November 19, 2019}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/08/trump-media-dispatch-bulwark-041121|title=Trump critics on the right join the media wars|first=Michael|last=Calderone|website=Politico}} He currently serves as Chief Strategy Officer at the National Constitution Center.{{cite web |title=Senior Team |url=https://constitutioncenter.org/about/senior-team |website=National Constitution Center |access-date=6 May 2021}}
Life and career
Stock attended Harvard Law School, graduating with a juris doctor degree in 2001. From 2001 to 2003, Stock was an associate at McKinsey & Company.
Stock was Assistant Dean of Admissions at Harvard Law School from 2005 to 2009.{{cite news |last1=Hutchins |first1=Matthew W. |title=Toby Stock's Last Interview |url=http://hlrecord.org/toby-stocks-last-interview/ |access-date=6 May 2021 |publisher=Harvard Law Record |date=January 22, 2009}} While working at Harvard Law School, he purchased a brick in a fundraising auction for $600, gaining notoriety among students.{{cite news |last1=Agule |first1=Rebecca |title="Auction 007" – A Success for SPIF |url=http://hlrecord.org/auction-007-a-success-for-spif/ |access-date=6 May 2021 |publisher=Harvard Law Record |date=April 18, 2007}} He left after accepting a job as managing director for development at the American Enterprise Institute.
From 2009 to 2019, Stock worked at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C.{{cite news |last1=Scarborough |first1=Wes |title=Think tank director, former Harvard administrator discusses American decline |url=https://thedailytexan.com/2014/11/13/think-tank-director-former-harvard-administrator-discusses-american-decline/ |access-date=6 May 2021 |publisher=The Daily Texan |date=November 13, 2014}}{{cite news |title=CONSERVATIVE WHOSE ANTI-TRUMP NEWS OUTLET FAILED LAUNCHES NEW ANTI-TRUMP NEWS OUTLET |url=https://pluralist.com/the-dispatch-stephen-hayes-jonah-goldberg/ |access-date=6 May 2021 |publisher=Pluralist |date=October 8, 2019}}
In October 2019, Stock launched The Dispatch, a subscription-based center-right online media company, alongside Jonah Goldberg and Stephen F. Hayes.{{cite news |last1=Bienaime |first1=Pierre |title='We don't need your clicks': The Dispatch co-founder Steve Hayes on bucking the attention economy |url=https://digiday.com/media/dispatch-cofounder-steve-hayes-attention-economy-engagement-newsletters/ |access-date=6 May 2021 |publisher=Digiday |date=June 16, 2020}} Stock served as the president of the company for the first year. The Dispatch was Substack's first media company.{{cite news |last1=Owen |first1=Laura Hazard |title=Substack's first media company is The Dispatch, a center-right site founded by former Weekly Standard and National Review editors |url=https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/10/substacks-first-media-company-is-the-dispatch-a-center-right-site-founded-by-former-weekly-standard-and-national-review-editors/ |access-date=6 May 2021 |publisher=Nieman Lab |date=October 8, 2019}} In its first year, The Dispatch received approximately 100,000 subscribers and received nearly $2 million in first-year revenue, most of it derived from Substack subscriptions.{{cite news |last1=Tracy |first1=Mark |title=Journalists Are Leaving the Noisy Internet for Your Email Inbox |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/23/business/media/substack-newsletters-journalists.html |access-date=6 May 2021 |work=New York Times |date=September 23, 2020}}
References
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External links
- {{C-SPAN|9278590}}
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