Digital Frontier, a tech-focused publication, that launched in early 2024, is closing. It was based in London and launched with a team of 20.
It covered stories on the future of business, finance and culture and had a website, daily newsletter, a print magazine and two weekly podcasts.
Andrew Rummer was the editor in chief, but he left a year ago. He previously was managing editor and executive editor of cryptocurrency news site The Block. He also spent 11 years at Bloomberg News, including a stint as a managing editor in London.
The website does not have a staff list.
A story on its website states:
We launched five issues of a magazine that felt as permanent as the ideas inside it, published a body of work that still feels ahead of its time and crafted a visual identity that stood for something. Most of all, we gathered a team of people who cared deeply about what they were making, and why it mattered. There was a sense, sometimes unspoken, sometimes said outright, that this was a chance to build something that would last.
In many ways, the bet we made was right. The media landscape has shifted. Taste, originality and voice matter more than ever. More independent creators are breaking through. Great companies are becoming storytellers in their own right. Audiences are no longer struggling to find good content; they are struggling to choose what deserves their attention and that changes what is expected of us.
Building something meaningful takes more than vision and effort, it also means knowing when to pause, step back and reassess. The work we produced struck a chord, but the momentum never quite followed. Rather than drift further from what we set out to do, we’ve decided to press pause.
So that’s what we’re doing, we’re bringing this chapter of Digital Frontier to a close. This is not the story we hoped to be writing at this point, and it has meant saying goodbye to a team who helped bring our vision to life. We’re proud of what we made, and while we could have kept pushing forward, we believe starting again is the better path to be able to build something that the audience now demands.
