Startup Payload aims to cover the aerospace industry

Michael Burgi of Digiday writes about news startup Payload, which is covering the aerospace industry.

Burgi writes, “That was the thinking behind the launch of Payload, a digital newsletter covering the burgeoning space industry that has already expanded into webinars and podcasts, and plans to get into events. Payload appears to be a scrappy upstart: The free newsletter started off with 10,000 subscribers, with the goal of eventually reaching 25,000 professionals in the space industry.

“Payload was launched a year ago by co-founders Ari Lewis (a former journalist) and Mo Islam (the self-described space guy), who said they see a white space in the aerospace journalism industry that they can fill because their company is all-digital and can move and adapt more nimbly than their competition, which includes such titles as Space News and Via Satellite.”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.