Big news energy
A glimpse inside how Capital Brief approached the biggest global news event of the year... so far.
How does a startup news outlet focused on breaking stories that you can't find elsewhere approach a news event that absolutely everyone is covering but is too seismic to ignore?
That was the challenge we faced at Capital Brief this week as the eyes of the entire international news media fixated on the US presidential election, the outcome of which will ultimately affect everyone reading this newsletter.
The answer to that opening question is: we tried to strike a balance. We didn’t attempt to cover the blow-by-blow of each incremental development, and we didn’t send anyone to the US to be on the ground for the closing stages of the campaign or its aftermath. But we did closely monitor the results, particularly for their impact on markets, and we did publish stories before and after the vote aimed at adding value for our subscribers.
Among those, Daniel Van Boom’s piece on the Australian cryptocurrency community’s fervent support for Donald Trump, published on the eve of the vote, proved particularly telling. “In Australian crypto, there are no Democrat supporters,” Egor Sidelska, director of digital asset manager Magnet Capital, told Daniel in the piece. “I’ve never met a single one.”
