Axios Wants Us to Read Everything in Bullet Points

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“We need to be there first,” he stated.

In December 2020, Axios purchased The Charlotte Agenda, a worthwhile e-newsletter, for near $5 million. Utilizing that as a mannequin, Axios has launched the e-newsletter format in 14 cities, together with Atlanta; Charlotte, N.C.; Nashville; and Philadelphia. It plans to develop to 11 extra by summer season.

Two native reporters have been employed in every metropolis to helm a day by day e-newsletter that could be a mixture of authentic reporting and an aggregation of articles from different retailers, stated Sara Kehaulani Goo, the editor in chief of Axios. (The corporate not too long ago employed Jamie Stockwell, a New York Occasions deputy nationwide editor, to supervise Axios Native.)

“Even earlier than we anticipated we noticed that was profitable from a journalism standpoint — we noticed excessive open charges,” Ms. Goo stated.

As promoting income from the native websites grows, some cities are getting a 3rd reporter. Axios Native generated practically $5 million in income final yr and has 700,000 subscribers throughout the 14 cities, a spokeswoman stated.

Evan Smith, the chief government of The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit in Austin based in 2009, stated he was an early subscriber to Axios Austin and reads it daily. “I’m pulling for them,” he stated, however added: “Are you able to sufficiently cowl the biggest cities in America — which Texas has extra of than every other state — with two or three reporters?”

Mr. VandeHei stated Axios was first making certain that its mannequin for native protection was sustainable and will work on a bigger scale.

“We’re attempting to consider how we will do that in each neighborhood in America,” Mr. VandeHei stated.

The corporate stored listening to from readers who needed to make use of its e-newsletter format at their workplaces to get extra individuals to learn inside emails, stated Jordan Zaslav, the final supervisor of Axios HQ.

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