# The Dispatch A center-right subscription publication launched in **October 2019** by **Stephen Hayes**, former editor-in-chief of *[[The Weekly Standard]]*, **[[Jonah Goldberg]]**, formerly a senior editor at *[[National Review]]*, and **Toby Stock**. It was the first media company to launch on [[Substack]], rather than an individual newsletter. Together with *[[The Bulwark]]* it is the successor infrastructure of the Never Trump conservative press — the institutional afterlife of *The Weekly Standard*, which folded in December 2018. Both outlets are referenced on [[Neoconservatism]] as the small, intellectually disproportionate niche that tradition now occupies. Its stated editorial posture is philosophically conservative but journalistically skeptical, weighted toward reporting over commentary. > [!info] Stub > Minimum-viable page created to resolve inbound links from [[Neoconservatism]]. Needs: ownership and subscriber figures, editorial record during [[Trump II]], and the relationship between its principals and the broader [[Movement Conservatism]] media economy. ## See Also - [[The Bulwark]] - [[The Weekly Standard]] - [[National Review]] - [[Jonah Goldberg]] - [[Neoconservatism]] - [[Movement Conservatism]] - [[Substack]]