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. […]
FT starts central bank newsletter
The Financial Times has launched “Chris Giles on Central Banks,” a weekly newsletter that will come out on Tuesdays. Written by former economics editor Giles, it will cover money, interest rates, inflation and what central banks are thinking. “Central banks provide the foundations of a modern economy, striving to maintain stable prices and ensure we […]
Former Evening News editor McGrory launches Edinburgh digital newsletter
Euan McGrory has launched Edinburgh Inquirer, a digtial newsletter covering business, politics, the environment, city life, culture and food. He also serves as its director. He said: “We need serious, well-researched journalism and local reportage now more than ever before. There are too many important national and local issues which are under-reported and we feel […]
Morning Brew is ending its “Money Scoop” newsletter
Morning Brew CEO Austin Reif sent out the following on Tuesday: Hi all, I wanted to share that we’ve made the decision to wind down Money Scoop, with its final run date scheduled for 9/29. As you’ve seen over the last year, we’ve significantly changed our approach to how we operate and grow our brands […]
