A Note to Paid Subscribers Who Support This Newsletter

I want to be straight with you about what you're supporting when you become a paid subscriber to News Pain Points.

If you’re reading this and make it to the bottom of this letter, you will get a more private and vulnerable side of me that I normally don’t share in this newsletter.

Let me begin by saying that this newsletter is a passion project.

Like the many other past passion projects of mine — the CA//MEDIA//JOBS Newsletter, a weekly listing of journalism jobs in California; or the Missed Pitches newsletter, a weekly collection of freelance writing pitches that once got rejected — News Pain Points started the same way: I saw something that bugged me, and I couldn’t stop picking at it until I’d figure out how to say what I meant.