Mediaite Starts a Newsletter to Summarize Media Newsletters
A new daily email from Mediaite intends to cut through the cacophony of online media news.
The media news site Mediaite is starting a media newsletter that aggregates media news from other media newsletters.
Try saying that three times fast.
One Sheet, an email newsletter that debuted on Wednesday, is an attempt to compile in one place the juiciest scoops, gossip and analysis from the dozens of newsletters, Substacks and websites that have emerged in recent years to cover the news about the news.
“There is definitely a level of meta here,” Mediaite’s founder, Dan Abrams, said in an interview. “We are well aware of the circular nature of this endeavor.”
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