{{Short description|American legal scholar}} {{Infobox person | name = Toby Stock | image = <!-- filename only, no "File:" or "Image:" prefix, and no enclosing brackets --> | alt = <!-- descriptive text for use by speech synthesis (text-to-speech) software --> | caption = | birth_name = <!-- only use if different from name --> | birth_date = <!-- {{Birth date and age|YYYY|MM|DD}} for living people supply only the year with {{Birth year and age|YYYY}} unless the exact date is already widely published, as per WP:DOB. For people who have died, use {{Birth date|YYYY|MM|DD}}. --> | birth_place = | other_names = | education = {{ubl |University of Missouri (B.S.) |Harvard Law School (J.D.) }} | occupation = | employer = {{ubl|National Constitution Center}} | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = }}
'''Toby Stock''' is an American legal scholar and co-founder of center-right online media company ''The Dispatch''.<ref name="Lippman">{{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}}</ref><ref name=Calderone>{{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}}</ref> He currently serves as Chief Strategy Officer at the National Constitution Center.<ref>{{cite web |title=Senior Team |url=https://constitutioncenter.org/about/senior-team |website=National Constitution Center |access-date=6 May 2021}}</ref>
==Life and career== Stock attended Harvard Law School, graduating with a juris doctor degree in 2001.<ref name="Hutchins"/> From 2001 to 2003, Stock was an associate at McKinsey & Company.<ref name="Scarborough"/>
Stock was Assistant Dean of Admissions at Harvard Law School from 2005 to 2009.<ref name="Scarborough"/><ref name="Hutchins">{{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}}</ref><ref name="Lippman"/> While working at Harvard Law School, he purchased a brick in a fundraising auction for $600, gaining notoriety among students.<ref name="Hutchins"/><ref name="Agule">{{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}}</ref> He left after accepting a job as managing director for development at the American Enterprise Institute.<ref name="Hutchins"/>
From 2009 to 2019, Stock worked at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C.<ref name="Scarborough">{{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}}</ref><ref name="Tracy"/><ref>{{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}}</ref>
In October 2019, Stock launched ''The Dispatch'', a subscription-based center-right online media company, alongside Jonah Goldberg and Stephen F. Hayes.<ref name="Lippman"/><ref name="Bienaime">{{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}}</ref><ref name="Tracy"/> Stock served as the president of the company for the first year.<ref name="Lippman"/> ''The Dispatch'' was Substack's first media company.<ref name="Owen">{{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}}</ref> 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.<ref name="Tracy">{{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}}</ref>
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==External links== * {{C-SPAN|9278590}}
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