Dan Kennedy heralds the arrival of Axios Local Boston, written by two reporters who actually know Boston, and runs down all the local e-mail newsletters to which you can now subscribe.
Axios Local
Dan Kennedy reports that Mike Deehan, currently GBH's State House reporter (and before that, a reporter for the State House News Service and the Dorchester Reporter) will be heading up the news side of an attempt by Axios to give Boston the sort of "smart brevity" it apparently can't get from any of its existing news sources.
Axios, best known for its coverage of national politics, has began dabbling in local news and says it plans to begin Boston coverage this year for the sort of people who demand what it calls "smart brevity" - a combination of original reporting and headlines aggregated from other sources, mostly in short articles with lots of bullet points for people too busy for traditional long-read pieces. Go deeper (30-sec. read).