The Atlantic announces New Newsletters
The Atlantic magazine's recent announcement confirmed one of my predications about industry trends published in the December 30, 2020, issue of this newsletter. The predictions were for Revue's "The Week in Newsletters". One prediction was that
"Just as news organizations (newspapers) purchased blogs when building out their web sites, they will do the same with newsletters."
Jeffrey Goldberg, Editor in Chief, introduced nine newsletters today. Even though they will be mostly limited to subscribers to The Atlantic, you should take a look. Note that one price gets you access to all nine newsletters and I assume any future newsletters too. AND, they are free and available to everyone until November 30.
Nine Newsletters
The nine new newsletters from The Atlantic are now in Finding.email and Reading.email. Below is some info and direct links to read the first editions.
Charilie Warzel's "Galaxy Brain" has moved from Substack to The Atlantic. Which really confirms the above prediction. His last newsletter on Substack is a very interesting read on the state of the newsletter industry and the editorial path he is taking. He also states "Glenn Greenwald was sort of right" which has interesting implications for the Facebook Papers.
Jordon Calhoun's "Humans Being" newsletter looks for lessons in pop culture. The preview or welcome issue pulls a lesson from 2017's "Duck Tails" cartoon from Disney. I may have to re-view Duck Tails.
Nicole Chung's "I Have Notes" newsletter will be about writing and an advice column. She states in the preview that the is looking forward to having dedicated readers.
David French's "The Third Rail" newsletter focuses on the Constitution and America. He goes right into race in the third paragraph. "But how we approach each issue matters a great deal." I look forward to bing reading his essays.
Xochitil Gonzalez's "Brooklyn Everywhere" examine gentrification and "the American dream". The intro issue talks about language and closes with "what language do you dream in?" Interesting to look beyond real estate for gentrification.
If Molly Jong-Fast's "Wait, What?" newsletter is even half as much fun and good as her podcast, sign me up. For her "the personal is political". This is my expectation of her newsletter.
Tom Nichols' "Peacefield" newsletter is about America's place in the world with curmudgeonly powers. In the preview he disses Led Zeppelin too.
Imani Perry's "Unsettled Territory" finds joy in "its work-in-progress quality". Looking forward to her big questions.
Yair Rosenberg's "Deep Shtetl" newsletter promises more like his old story on Thomas Jefferson's copy of the Quran. His perspective should be interesting.
The Atlantic magazine is putting a lot of resources into newsletters. They are the new blogs.
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