Oremus to co-write “Tech 202” newsletter at Washington Post
Washington Post tech reporter Will Oremus is now co-writing the “Tech 202” newsletter with Cristiano Lima-Strong. Oremus joined the Post in 2021. Before the Post, he was senior writer for OneZero, Medium’s science and tech publication, where he wrote a weekly newsletter called “Pattern Matching.” Before that, he was Slate’s senior technology writer and co-host of the Slate podcast […]
Globe and Mail seeks journalist for its business newsletter
The Globe and Mail is seeking an accomplished journalist to curate and write Business Briefing, our new business newsletter. The newsletter, published Monday to Friday, gives readers everything they need to know about the most pressing business and financial news of the day. The author of this newsletter will curate from The Globe’s news cycle […]
Newton’s decision to take newsletter off Substack
Oliver Darcy of CNN takes a look at Casey Newton‘s decision to take his tech newsletter Platformer off of Substack and Twitter/X. Darcy writes, “For a journalist whose job it is to call out other companies for maintaining questionable business relationships, Newton said it would have not only been ethically dubious for him to ignore the […]
Prominent tech newsletter leaving Substack
Casey Newton, a technology journalist and founder of Platformer, is leaving Substack over its failure to moderate Nazi and pro-Holocaust content, reports Taylor Lorenz and Will Oremus of The Washington Post. Lorenz and Oremus write, “Newton’s announcement comes days after Substack said it would ban five Nazi-affiliated accounts that it had found in violation of its policy against […]
How Bloomberg’s shift to subscriber-exclusive newsletters is working
Lucy Keller, associate product manager for Bloomberg Media, writes about how it uses newsletters to attract readers. Keller writes, “The newsletters officially shifted from the free model to our subscriber-exclusive model in the Fall of 2023, now only allowing Bloomberg.com paying users to sign-up. In thinking about our audience first, we grandfathered non-paying users in, […]
Pensions & Investments starting DC newsletter
Pensions & Investments is launching a newsletter, “This Week in Washington,” on Jan. 10, authored by senior reporter and Washington bureau chief Brian Croce. A story on its website states, “The weekly newsletter aims to harness Croce’s experience in covering the latest legislative, legal and regulatory developments, as well as the people who are shaping […]
Fortune hires Garfinkle as senior finance reporter
Fortune magazine has hired Alexandra Garfinkle as a senior finance reporter for its “Term Sheet” newsletter. She has been at Yahoo Finance as a senior technology reporter since March 2022. Garfinkle has previously been at P&C Specialist, part of Money-Media, a Financial Times operation. Garfinkle was previously a reporter at The Deal, part of Euromoney Institutional Investor, where she […]
Renbarger joining Newcomer to cover startups and VCs
Madeline Renbarger is joining Eric Newcomer’s newsletter operation to cover startups and venture capital. She had been at Business Insider covering early stage artificial intelligence startups and venture capital before leaving last month. She previously covered industry power players to changing investment trends. Before Business Insider, she worked on breaking news videos for the Recount as a production assistant. Renbarger graduated from […]
Forbes Daily newsletter is approaching 1 million subscribers
Forbes flagship newsletter Forbes Daily is approaching 1 million subscribers, CEO Mike Federle said in his annual video to Forbes employees. “Our newsletter strategy has produced great results,” said Federle. Last month, an $800 million deal to sell Forbes Media Group to a group of investors led by American tech executive Austin Russell fell through. […]
BetaKit hires Bharti from Financial Post
BetaKit has hired Bianca Bharti to be its first newsletter editor. Editor in chief Douglas Soltys writes, “Bianca is one of Canada’s top up-and-coming journalists, with broad reporting experience and a passion for innovation and technology. She comes to us from the Financial Post as a reporter covering stories ranging from economic trends and wealth management to market-moving enterprises. […]
