A much better way to read email newsletters

Matter, Meco, and other dedicated newsletter reader apps are optimized for immersive reading in ways your inbox will never be.

I love almost everything about email newsletters. From finance to gadgets to pop music, there are just so many stellar ones these days. Their very format—intimate, regularly scheduled, free of any temptation to please the Google algorithm rather than human readers—liberates many writers to do their best work. Then there’s the fact that paid newsletters allow some of the most exceptional journalists around to make a living through direct support from happy subscribers—a rare bit of bright news as more traditional media business models grow dicier than ever.