Serial Marketer Weekly from David Berkowitz.Corporate Innovation Monitor from NYC Media Lab.Writing Wednesdays by Steven Pressfield.Quarter-Life Breakthrough by Smiley Poswolsky.Harvard Business School’s Working Knowledge.Leadership, management, and self-improvement The Week’s 10 Things You Need to Know Today.The 10-Point from the Wall Street Journal.Aspen Institute’s Five Best Ideas of the Day.Is your favorite newsletter missing from this list? Email to let us know what you’re reading. The complete crowdsourced list of newsletters is below. Browse the archives and sign up to receive it in your inbox. We’ve designed our own Lab Report newsletter to provide thoughtful insights, deep expertise, and smart curation. We received so many recommendations for “personal musings and link-letters” that we made an entire category for emails written by a single person with a strong point of view many of those writers curate a selection of links that reflect their personal perspective. But readers don’t only rely on large media outlets to deliver news and insights. The most-mentioned newsletters (*marked with an asterisk in the list below) include daily headlines and topical newsletters from major media outlets like the New York Times and MIT Technology Review, as well as newer players like Quartz and Axios. No one wants to miss an essential story, but no one wants to spend hours sifting through the news every day. Navigating the onslaught of news to avoid FOMO.

A year ago, we probably wouldn’t have placed space newsletters in their own separate category most have launched within the past 12-14 months. As industries evolve and news coverage changes, newsletters also shift. Many respondents recommended a mix of general news and niche newsletters. Newsletters are often the most efficient and effective way to get up to speed quickly and keep tabs on a specific topic.

Going deep with trusted experts and reliable sources. When we asked about “dream newsletters,” many survey respondents suggested ideas for combining disparate topics or mashing up existing publications - like “TLDR for global health” or “Quartz Obsessions for geopolitics.” But that’s not a bad thing when it comes to newsletters, defying categorization can be a strong advantage. Finding the right categories for this diverse list of newsletters was an enormous challenge some of the most interesting newsletters connect dots across topics and don’t fit neatly into a single genre. We were overwhelmed with responses - we stopped counting after we reached 200 - across a wide range of industries and topic areas. We noticed a few themes about the newsletters you like most.Ĭonnecting dots between analogous spaces.

Inboxes are a personal space, and the types of newsletters you read can reveal a lot about who you are and what you value. That’s why we asked Lab Report readers and our extended network to tell us what’s in their inboxes: the emails they look forward to receiving, the ones they pay for, their favorite lesser-known newsletters, and the publications they would love to read - if only they existed. We’ve discovered some of our favorite publications from word-of-mouth recommendations. Smart email newsletters deliver insights that can help you spot trends and opportunities the right mix of high-value subscriptions can help you stay ahead of the curve. And a growing wariness of large platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Slack may inspire more people to use their email inboxes as customized news feeds and social networks. Meanwhile, new email platforms like Substack and Buttondown are making it easier for writers to launch simple newsletters and make money from subscriptions. But email is open, flexible, and reliable - “ one of the most boringly powerful publishing platforms” - and thought leaders who used to spend all their time blogging or tweeting are increasingly likely to curate top links and share their best insights in newsletter form. Social media’s algorithmic feeds and paid promotions haven’t delivered on a promise to help users find the most relevant content, and messaging platforms have introduced even more clutter. We’ve updated the list for 2021, with crowdsourced newsletter recommendations across 21 categories and fresh insights into what readers want to see in their inboxes. Editor’s note: We originally published this list of must-read newsletters in 2019 - and it’s been one of our most popular articles ever since.

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