Toby Stock is an American legal scholar and co-founder of center-right online media company The Dispatch.[1][2] He currently serves as Chief Strategy Officer at the National Constitution Center.[3]

Toby Stock
NationalityAmerican
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Life and career

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Stock attended Harvard Law School, graduating with a juris doctor degree in 2001.[4] From 2001 to 2003, Stock was an associate at McKinsey & Company.[5]

Stock was Assistant Dean of Admissions at Harvard Law School from 2005 to 2009.[5][4][1] While working at Harvard Law School, he purchased a brick in a fundraising auction for $600, gaining notoriety among students.[4][6] He left after accepting a job as managing director for development at the American Enterprise Institute.[4]

From 2009 to 2019, Stock worked at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C.[5][7][8]

In October 2019, Stock launched The Dispatch, a subscription-based center-right online media company, alongside Jonah Goldberg and Stephen F. Hayes.[1][9][7] Stock served as the president of the company for the first year.[1] The Dispatch was Substack's first media company.[10] 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.[7]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d Lippman, Daniel (November 19, 2019). "Sarah Isgur joins conservative media startup as staff writer". Politico. Retrieved 6 May 2021.
  2. ^ Calderone, Michael. "Trump critics on the right join the media wars". Politico.
  3. ^ "Senior Team". National Constitution Center. Retrieved 6 May 2021.
  4. ^ a b c d Hutchins, Matthew W. (January 22, 2009). "Toby Stock's Last Interview". Harvard Law Record. Retrieved 6 May 2021.
  5. ^ a b c Scarborough, Wes (November 13, 2014). "Think tank director, former Harvard administrator discusses American decline". The Daily Texan. Retrieved 6 May 2021.
  6. ^ Agule, Rebecca (April 18, 2007). ""Auction 007" – A Success for SPIF". Harvard Law Record. Retrieved 6 May 2021.
  7. ^ a b c Tracy, Mark (September 23, 2020). "Journalists Are Leaving the Noisy Internet for Your Email Inbox". New York Times. Retrieved 6 May 2021.
  8. ^ "CONSERVATIVE WHOSE ANTI-TRUMP NEWS OUTLET FAILED LAUNCHES NEW ANTI-TRUMP NEWS OUTLET". Pluralist. October 8, 2019. Retrieved 6 May 2021.
  9. ^ Bienaime, Pierre (June 16, 2020). "'We don't need your clicks': The Dispatch co-founder Steve Hayes on bucking the attention economy". Digiday. Retrieved 6 May 2021.
  10. ^ Owen, Laura Hazard (October 8, 2019). "Substack's first media company is The Dispatch, a center-right site founded by former Weekly Standard and National Review editors". Nieman Lab. Retrieved 6 May 2021.
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