The newsletter will be written by media reporter Trey Williams.
MarketWatch editor in chief Jeremy Olshan explained its origination in an email to Talking Biz News:
Most email newsletters are treated as a lifetime commitment, a marriage of sorts that you’re stuck with until you go through the hassle of getting a divorce. But what if the emails could be more of a spring fling, a relationship that expires on its own as interest wanes? We had been thinking about experimenting along these lines when the AT&T deal broke.
Duncan Mavin, head of editorial projects for Dow Jones Media Group, had a cool idea for a pop-up site for those interested in following the story. But as we hashed it out with our media reporter, Trey Williams, we decided this was the perfect opportunity for a shorter-run email newsletter instead. And we managed to get it up in one day. The frequency will be daily as long as there is still a lot to say.
So far the response has been solid. Hundreds signed up in the first couple of days and the newsletter has been popular as a story on the site as well. It’s too soon to draw any conclusions from this experiment, but we certainly plan to try this again.
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