I have spent much of the day reading individual authors on News Break, trying to crack the code of what works for the News Break audience, both in terms of subject matter and style. And because I don’t have a large body of articles to copy and paste, I’m brainstorming/collecting story ideas that I can knock out fairly quickly.

For better or worse, I have been reading the comments on a bunch of articles. Actually, it is for worse. Very little redeeming value to be found in the comments. The readers are VERY different from most of those at Medium. But this is a data point too. Something useful has been learned.

Anyway, I hope we can keep sharing insights into News Break. All my best, Cristo