Introducing the Washington Dispatch
Washington is never short on news, but reliable ways to stay informed can be hard to find. Traditional news outlets are losing credibility as quickly as they are losing staff to downsizing, while many new-media alternatives bury reporting behind paywalls, clickbait, and intrusive advertising.
The Washington Dispatch seeks to fill that void by delivering accurate, accessible news from the Nation’s capital. The Dispatch is a new publication dedicated to covering politics and public policy on a free, cleanly formatted platform powered by Substack.
Our reporting will cover Congress, the White House, the courts, the federal bureaucracy, and public policy. The Dispatch will pay particularly close attention to policy developments affecting the business world and the economy.
We are grateful to our early readers for joining us at the beginning of this new venture. We hope to earn your readership for many years to come.
Welcome to the Washington Dispatch.
25 years into the interactive era, media and politics are still stuck in outdated 20th century broadcast mode. The function of journalism has moved beyond the reporting of facts and the presenting of opinions (as the saying now goes: everyone has one of those). The mission is now about convening the audience (online, at scale) and leading it to consensus on practical solutions to our common problems. Let's meet in The Big Middle, where most Americans are.
Hey, as the Editor in Chief of a Washington based publication called The Dispatch, I think your choice of name is … questionable.