PETER BRUCE: The strange waxing of SA’s business newsletters
All of these little business websites are competing to be the one that topples Business Day from its perch as SA’s premier daily business publication
I don’t know about you but my e-mail is bombarded by business “newsletters” in the mornings. I remember we started the first one when I edited Business Day. That would have been back in 2010/2011. We would send you a free e-mail early in the morning, from which you would then click on a story and get taken to our website. Now there’s lots of them. There’s one from Business Insider, the digital business site started by Henry Blodget in New York in 2007 and sold to German publisher Axel Springer for $343m in 2015. It’s a franchise and, in SA, well led by Phillip de Wet. He’ll start your day with Five Things You Need To Know. A lot is taken from the mother site but it’s doing well and the SA site is owned by Naspers. Naspers also owns Fin24 (Koos Bekker always covers a bet) which also delivers a morning newsletter to you with a pretty good spread of local news. Then there’s Moneyweb, which will wake you up with a strong offering and Moneyweb’s founder, Alec Hogg, has built up his own B...
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