Local personal finance newsletter hits 7,000 subscribers
A Charlotte-based personal finance newsletter called “Tiny Money” has reached 7,000 subscribers and has sold out its advertising inventory for the first half of the year. The newsletter was started in September by Ted Williams, who started the Charlotte Agenda newsletter that is now the Axios Charlotte newsletter. “Tiny Money” has an average 78% open […]
How the FT has quadrupled newsletter subscribers
Dominic Ponsford of Press Gazette interviewed Financial Times head of newsletters Sarah Ebner about how it has grown its email subscribers from over 400,000 to 1.6 million. Here is an excerpt: How are important are email newsletters as a platform for the Financial Times? “I’ve been here nearly four years and they were really being […]
Atlanta daily hires Willingham from CNN
AJ Willingham, an Emmy Award-winning journalist and veteran digital storyteller, is The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s new voice behind the newspaper’s morning newsletter, A.M. ATL. Willingham joined the newspaper following her tenure as senior culture writer at CNN, where she earned both a National News and Documentary Emmy and a National Association of Black Journalists Salute to […]
Why Edgecliffe-Johnson left the FT for Semafor
Bron Maher of Press Gazette interviewed Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, who recently left the Financial Times to start a CEO newsletter for Semafor. Maher writes, “In common with other Semafor products, The CEO Signal is free for its audience, instead generating revenue for the company by attracting influential or wealthy audiences and monetising their attention via sponsorship. (The sponsor […]
How an ACBJ paper started a newsletter 25 years ago
James Breiner, the former publisher of the Baltimore Business Journal, writes about how he started a newsletter in 2000. Breiner writes, “People told me how much they liked the newsletter. It gave them empowering information directly in their in-box. It was personal, from me, the publisher. It felt real, genuine, trustworthy. “Dozens asked to be […]
Coy’s economics newsletter at NY Times to end next month
Peter Coy, who has been writing an economics newsletter for the New York Times Opinion section since 2021, will be leaving next month. The last newsletter will be Feb. 7. “For most of the last three years he’s published three newsletters a week, on topics ranging widely from Social Security to his necktie collection,” wrote […]
The Athletic is starting a sports business newsletter
The Athletic announced Wednesday it is launching “MoneyCall,” a sports business newsletter curated by Dan Shanoff, managing editor of sports business. The newsletter will be weekly, and it will include The Athletic’s sports business and media reporting, with insights directly from its newsroom. “MoneyCall” will feature breaking news, predictions and analysis. Readers can also expect […]
Edgecliffe-Johnson to write CEO newsletter for Semafor
Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson will write an invitation-only newsletter for chief executives, The CEO Signal, for Semafor, reports Katie Robertson of The New York Times. Robertson reports, “Mr. Edgecliffe-Johnson, formerly FT’s U.S. news editor, said in an interview that other ‘C.E.O.-branded’ media products were intended for a more junior and more aspirational audience, while his newsletter would be written directly […]
FT starts an India newsletter
The Financial Times has launched a new newsletter, “India Business Briefing.” The newsletter will be sent out twice a week on Tuesdays and Fridays. The first two issues will be free to read online, then it will be available for premium subscribers. “India Business Briefing” will be written by Veena Venugopal, who joined the FT […]
How tech journalist Newcomer has created a $2 million business
Simon Owens interviewed tech journalist Eric Newcomer about his career and how he’s grown his newsletter business to $2 million in revenue. Owens writes, “Major CEOs like Dara Khosrowshahi at Uber and Tony Xu at DoorDash granted him early interviews, and in January 2021 he published a deeply reported, insidery look at the VC firm Andreessen Horowitz […]
