How Curation Ate the Economist

While modern newsletters like The Hustle and theSkimm built their audiences with daily curation and expanded their content offering from there, The Economist offers a playbook legacy publishers can leverage to retain subscribers by building their own curation muscle.

Simply put, we're living in the era of abundance and curation helps combat information overload. In this context, one of my favorite case studies on the importance of curation comes from a nearly 200-year-old publisher with a legacy of breadth and depth, The Economist.