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Food newsletter launches with eight staff and tech-style incentives

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A media company covering the business of food, restaurants and hospitality in New York “and beyond” has launched with eight full-time salaried staff after a $2.5m (£1.8m) seed funding round. Caper has been set up by two of the founders of newsletter-based publisher Puck, Max Tcheyan and Dan Tsinis, along with former Vanity Fair deputy editor and Air Mail columnist Dana Brown. It plans to focus on “in-depth stories and scoops”, avoiding reviews and listicles. Investment in the title began in the autumn so it could launch with “the right founding journalists”, Tcheyan, co-founder and CEO of Caper, told Press Gazette, adding the business model offers staff revenue-linked bonuses and equity participation in the company on top of a competitive salary. This means Caper’s staff are compensated more like tech startup employees than journalists at traditional publications, which allows Caper to compete with those institutions for top talent. The Caper newsletter, sent three times a week, launched in February, followed by its website at the end of March. Monthly events will launch in April. Caper’s …

Daily newsletter is Telegraph’s ‘biggest source of subscribers’ one year after launch

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Picture: The Telegraph Flagship Telegraph newsletter From the Editor has become its “biggest source” of new paying subscribers one year after launch. From the Editor promises news, comment, analysis “hand-picked” by Telegraph editor Chris Evans. The newsletter, sent at 7.30am each morning, also includes reader comments, puzzles, cartoons and an exclusive column. Everyone who registers for free to The Telegraph’s website (giving them limited access behind the paywall) is automatically opted in to receive the newsletter. The publisher claims From the Editor is read by more than 850,000 people every day. Deputy editor Catherine Bentley-Gouldstone told Press Gazette in December it had a total audience list of more than two million. [Read more: The projects publishers were most proud of in 2025, including From the Editor] Telegraph executive editor Christopher Williams, whose role includes accelerating the newsletter strategy, told Press Gazette: “We have an intelligent paywall that takes you on a journey from being just somebody who’s flown in from Google to giving us your email address to subscribing,” adding that this method has helped …

Guardian’s first Substack experiment is republishing food newsletter

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The page on The Guardian’s website for the Feast newsletter The Guardian has decided to experiment with Substack by recreating its weekly food newsletter Feast on the platform. The Substack play is part of Project Berger, the multi-year transformation plan designed to make The Guardian “more visual, digital and experimental” as first outlined by editor-in-chief Katharine Viner to Press Gazette in October. Feast has more than 100,000 subscribers and open rates of almost 70%, according to The Guardian. It is one of almost 60 newsletters at The Guardian following a pivot over the past four years away from link-led automated dispatches towards authored emails with more original reporting and analysis. In total The Guardian reports having more than five million unique newsletters subscribers. By cross-publishing Feast on Substack, Feast can make use of social media style features on Substack like the Notes feed. Readers can now sign up for the Substack version here. Substack also has recommendation features that mean, for example, food publishers can recommend each other to their subscribers. Some Guardian food writers, …

Politics newsletter makes nearly $4m in subs despite giving most content away

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Tangle’s executive editor and founder Isaac Saul. Picture: Tangle A US-based politics newsletter makes most of its $4m+ in revenue from subscriptions despite offering most of its content for free. Tangle Media was founded in 2019 by executive editor Isaac Saul, providing political news across the spectrum to allow readers “to look at US-focused politics through multiple lenses”, Saul told Press Gazette. In similar vein to The Week, each newsletter offers “what the right is saying” and “what the left is saying” on a daily topic, alongside takes of international writers and Saul. “We believe that audiences are divided into really tight little sectors right now,” Saul said. “Not a lot of people are being exposed to ideas and arguments that they might not like.” This content, alongside a personal relationship built with readers, helped Tangle reach $4.15m in annual revenue, including $500,000 sourced from ads, in 2025, with 85% of its revenue stream sourced from paid subscriptions and 15% from ads. Today, its newsletters sent via Ghost are its core offering – of which …

Peter Geoghegan on rapid growth of investigative newsletter Democracy for Sale

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Peter Geoghegan (centre left) and Lucas Amin (centre right) pick up the Specialist Journalism prize for Democracy for Sale at the British Journalism Awards 2025. Picture: Press Gazette/Adam Duke Photography Investigative journalism outlet Democracy for Sale has more than tripled revenue and subscribers in the past 12 months, according to founder Peter Geoghegan. The Substack-based newsletter won the Specialist Journalism prize at the British Journalism Awards in December for reports on foreign and “dark” money being funnelled into UK politics. Democracy for Sale is staffed by three former Open Democracy journalists: ex-chief executive and editor-in-chief Geoghegan, Lucas Amin and Jenna Corderoy. Geoghegan told Press Gazette said he hopes to increase the proportion of revenue coming from readers and not be overly reliant on philanthropic support which Geoghegan said “allows us to do work we would struggle to do otherwise” but can prove unstable. “What we’re looking to get to is sustainability.” Democracy for Sale is not paywalled but, like The Guardian, asks for reader support to keep it free for all. It has almost 50,000 …

Financial Times launches first Substack newsletter to target younger readers

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Alphaville pub quiz in New York. Picture: Financial Times The Financial Times has launched free newsletter FT Alphaville on Substack in an effort to engage younger readers. FT Alphaville is a markets and finance blog written by Bryce Elder and a team, and the weekly newsletter is set to include commentary, Alphaville’s latest blogs, data visualisation, research, previews of upcoming Alphaville events and a selection of charts. Sarah Ebner, Financial Times’ director of editorial growth and engagement, said research has shown that Alphaville “strongly resonates” with younger readers, and launching its content on Substack is an effort to “reach more of them by launching on a platform where we know they already are”. “We are also sure there are many existing Substack readers who will enjoy this new newsletter and look forward to them discovering and engaging with it,” she added. “Alphaville is already free on FT.com so it should work well to also share the team’s brilliant journalism on Substack. It’s really a way of joining a successful existing product to an ecosystem that …

Want a bargain TV? There’s one key time each year – and it’s not Black Friday | Money newsletter | Money News

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Sky News has launched a free Money newsletter – bringing the kind of content you enjoy in the Money blog directly to your inbox. Each Friday, subscribers get exclusive money-saving tips and features from the team behind the award-winning Money blog, which is read by millions of Britons every month. Sign up today, and this coming Friday you’ll find the following in the newsletter: The tax rules for side hustles explained – from Vinted to Christmas markets; Why Black Friday might not be the best time to buy a TV; Early access to our weekly Money Problem feature – this week’s concerns a reader’s row with Asda about late deliveries; And we outline the best deals available in five key areas for your household budget. So join our growing Money community – and thanks to the thousands of you who already have. What to expect each week The newsletter is your essential personal finance companion, with digestible information to help you make smarter decisions on your savings, mortgages, holiday money and much more. As a …