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As the year comes to a close, our editor in chief reflects on what it's been like to launch Capital Brief — and what lies ahead in 2024.
Tomorrow marks exactly four months since we launched Capital Brief and it has been one hell of a ride so far. It’s tempting at a moment like this to reflect on the lessons we have learned in creating a new media outlet from scratch in 2023 — and there are many — but I’m inclined to save those observations for a later point in this journey.
What I will say, though, is I’m confident we have taken significant strides towards realising our goal, which is to provide valuable news and intelligence for decision makers in the new Australian economy, and to bring a different kind of coverage to the business media landscape.
In the space of those four months we broken stories on big corporate deals, regulatory investigations, and shock leadership changes at iconic Australian companies. In Canberra, we’ve led reporting on the migration system overhaul (which will benefit the startup sector in particular), the new federal cybersecurity strategy, and the $15 billion national reconstruction fund.
We’ve done long reads on the rise of deep tech in Australia, the billion-dollar business hiding in Dubbo and an emerging investment powerhouse. We’ve interviewed the federal treasurer, his opposition counterpart and spoken to a string of founders and CEOs including one of the most important entrepreneurs Australia has produced in decades. And much more. And alongside this newsletter we have launched three other specialist private emails for our subscribers, with two more coming early next year.
