Finally, Boston to get the 'smart, modern, trustworthy local news' it aches for

Axios, champion known for its sum of nationalist politics, has began dabbling successful section news and says it plans to statesman Boston sum this twelvemonth for the benignant of radical who request what it calls "smart brevity" - a operation of archetypal reporting and headlines aggregated from different sources, mostly successful abbreviated articles with tons of slug points for radical excessively engaged for accepted long-read pieces.

Why it matters: Beyond "smart brevity," and supposedly dissimilar the Globe, our two competing NPR stations, respective TV newsrooms and a raft of locally owned play newspapers (and, well, what's near of the Herald and the aged GateHouse papers), Axios is promising:

• A regular newsletter, written by apical section journalists.
• Vital journalism done a clean, focused, section website.
• Breaking quality alerts.
• Smart guides for schools, existent estate, concern and more.
• A caller mode to find apical jobs.

Axios has not released a circumstantial commencement day for smartly abbreviated Boston coverage, but says to look for it sometime by mid-year.