Substack Hires Google Alum, Media Law Veteran as Legal Chief

Substack Inc., a subscription-based online media company that’s assembled a stable of high-profile writers, added its first-ever legal chief last month in Tim Hwang.

Hwang said he joined Substack working remotely as the startup’s general counsel in mid-July, having most recently advised the company while working in private practice as a name partner at Rosen, Wolfe & Hwang in San Francisco.

Substack’s new top lawyer once spent two years working in the public policy division at Alphabet Inc.’s Google, where he took the lead on artificial intelligence and machine learning. Hwang said that position often had him interacting with governments ...