The NewsDialy editorial desk at work in a glass-walled newsroom
THE DESK · 04:15

Who we are

A small desk obsessed with your first ten minutes.

NewsDialy began with a frustration shared by everyone who reads for a living: the morning had become a scroll. A hundred tabs, a dozen apps, and still no clear sense of what actually mattered. We wanted a single page that could replace the noise — not another feed asking for more time.

So we built the opposite. One brief. Five stories. Finished before sunrise and engineered to be read in the time it takes a kettle to boil. No infinite feed — just the edge you need, and then your day back. Markets first, because the tape moves before the world wakes up, and the rest of the day reads better when you already know where it opened.

Our mission is simple and unmoved: keep the brief small, keep it honest, and ship it on time. We are independent, reader-funded, and answer to no one with a position to talk up. If a story doesn't change how a reader plans their day, it doesn't make the cut.

2019
First edition sent
180k+
Daily readers
6:00
Never a minute late

THE BRIEF'S PROMISE

“We don't want more of your attention. We want to give you a head start and then get out of your way.

— THE NEWSDIALY EDITORIAL DESK

What we hold to

Three rules the brief never breaks.

01

Signal over volume

We kill 95% of what crosses the desk. If it doesn't change your day, it doesn't make the brief.

02

Context, not takes

We read the 40-page report so you read three sentences. No outrage, no padding, no agenda.

03

Punctual to the minute

6:00 AM, every weekday, in your timezone. The brief is finished before you reach for your phone.

The night shift

How a quiet desk becomes your 6AM edge.

While the world sleeps, the brief takes shape. Eight and a half hours of reading, weighing and cutting — so your morning costs you two minutes.

21:30

The desk opens

Editors start tracking the overnight wires across markets, world and tech.

04:15

The cut

Hundreds of stories become five. Each one earns its place or it's gone.

05:30

The polish

Every line is rewritten until it reads in seconds, not minutes.

06:00

It lands

The brief hits 180,000 inboxes — calm, ordered, ready.

The masthead

Six desks. One brief. No filler.

A small, deliberately quiet team. Each desk owns its beat from the first wire to the final cut.

Maren Halliday

Editor-in-Chief

Sets the running order. Last eyes on every line before 06:00.

Idris Okafor

Markets Desk

Rates, equities, FX. Reads the overnight tape so you don't have to.

Petra Lindqvist

World & Politics

Capitals, conflicts, central banks. Turns 40-page reports into three sentences.

Devon Asare

Tech & Business

Earnings, deals, the unglamorous middle of the S-curve.

Yuki Tanaka

Copy Chief

Cuts adverbs. Defends the reader's first ten minutes.

Rosa Calderón

Reader Operations

Delivery, deliverability, and the inbox you actually open.

EST. 2019 · LONDON · FIRST EDITION 04 NOV 2019 · INDEPENDENT & READER-FUNDED

Talk to the desk

Built by people who read too much, so you can read just enough.

Tips, corrections, partnerships, or a quiet note about a story we missed — the desk reads everything that comes in.