The newsroom · 06:40A newsroom that still answers the phone.
We started NewsNovo because we wanted a news magazine we’d actually look forward to opening — clear, calm, and honest about what it knows. No noise engineered to keep you anxious. Just the story, told well, then we let you get on with your day.
Independent journalism, set in motion: that’s the line on the masthead, and it’s the bar every desk is held to. Markets, politics, culture, the long features at the back — each story earns its column inches before it runs. If we don’t have it cold, we say so, or we wait.
NewsNovo · est. 2019 — Independent · Reader-funded
“The internet didn’t kill good journalism. It just buried it under everything else. Our whole job is the digging.”
The founding editors, Issue 01
The short version
Two editors, a borrowed desk, and a conviction that the internet hadn’t killed good journalism — it had just buried it under everything else. The first issue went out to four hundred readers. The format hasn’t changed much since: a handful of stories that earn their place, set in type you can breathe in.
Today a small permanent staff works alongside field reporters across five sections. We’re funded entirely by readers, which means we work for exactly one audience — you.
2019
Founded
214
Issues published
31
Reporters & editors
0
Trackers on the page
The people whose names are on it.
A small permanent staff, a wider bench of contributing reporters and photographers. Everyone here puts their name on what they file — and answers for it the morning after.
Helena Vask
Sets the week. Reads every piece twice.
Mariam Okafor
Keeps the schedule honest and the copy clean.
Daniel Reyes
Equities, central banks, the long unwind.
Aiko Tanaka
Washington, Brussels, and what travels between.
Jonas Werner
Long reads, cover stories, the weekend essay.
Priya Shah
Photography, type, the look of the page.
Pitches, corrections, or a letter to the editor?
Write to the newsroomOur standards
Four rules we don’t bend. They’re the reason a NewsNovo byline means something.
Reported first-hand
Every story starts with a person, a place or a document — not a feed. If we can’t stand it up, we don’t run it.
Corrections in the open
When we’re wrong, we say so at the top, with the date and what changed. Trust is the only currency we have.
No dark patterns
No autoplay, no infinite scroll engineered to trap you, no headlines that lie to win the click.
Reader-funded
Subscriptions, not surveillance. Our incentive is to be worth reading, not to keep you scrolling.
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