tigranes5 t1_ir5wz1j wrote on October 5, 2022 at 3:57 PM

I'm not familiar with Axios. Is this one of those fake publications that does paid advertisements disguised as news? That's what this looks like.

DefaultSubsAreTerrib t1_ir5ydrz wrote on October 5, 2022 at 4:06 PM

It's news and ads. This morning the email had two sections advertising some app to give me cash back on my purchases.

It also has a very obnoxious style of repeated, bold subheadings guarding one sentence of content at a time, as visible in the linked article. They should just omit those headings IMHO.

But yeah, I'm still subscribed because on balance it's worthwhile

darockerj t1_ir6k2ae wrote on October 5, 2022 at 6:25 PM

real publication run by real, longtime richmond journalists. they specialize in short-form content, which is how they can get a two-person team (maybe more) to put out a fresh newsletter every day.

they have an info page here: https://www.axios.com/newsletters/local

Hedgecore138 t1_ir703dg wrote on October 5, 2022 at 8:06 PM

I've been enjoying Karri Peifer's work for years. Granted, most of the Axios stuff is Journalism-Lite, but it's still useful and mostly original content.