FOR INDEPENDENT CREATORS
← THE FRONT PAGEFOUNDING PUBLICATIONS
Bring your masthead. Add a research desk.
Follow the stories your readers want examined. Publish a Morning Brief with the findings, competing explanations, and sources. You choose the work and keep your audience.
THE VALUE
A research edition under your name.
Find stories in your beat and see which ones your readers want investigated. Choose what to pursue, then publish a Morning Brief with the research and sources under your own name.
IDENTITY DEMONSTRATION / NOT A LIVE PUBLICATION
One system. Your masthead.
See how your name and color sit within the shared newsstand.
EDITION.Your publication. Your subjects. Your schedule.
YOU KEEP
Your publication stays yours.
- Your masthead and public voice
- Your subscriber relationship
- Your customer payment relationship
- Your subscription destination
- Your editorial choice
SETUP CHOICES
Choose your subjects and schedule.
Tell us what you cover, where you cover it, and how often you want to publish.
- What you cover
- Where you cover
- Stories to include
- Stories to leave out
- Your publishing schedule
FORMAT GUIDE · NOT A PUBLISHED BRIEF
Inside a Morning Brief
- Finding
- What the available material supports.
- Counter-case
- The strongest challenge to that reading.
- Source trail
- The records used, and what they cannot establish.
FIT & ECONOMICS
For publications with trust and a clear subject.
- You already have an audience you can reach directly.
- Your audience follows a clear subject.
- You are willing to show sources, counter-cases, and evidence gaps.
Your readers subscribe through your own subscription page. You keep the subscriber and payment relationship. PublicTide's research fee is agreed before launch. Newsletter delivery requires your approval.
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