We all want to stay up to date with current events and what is happening around the world, but often do not want to spend the time to watch the news or read a newspaper. Danielle Weisberg and Carly Zakin realized this and thought it would be a great idea if there was somehow a summary of everything that had happened the previous day. They met while studying abroad in college and reconnected when they were both working for NBC News. They decided to found TheSkimm, which is an email subscription service that succinctly summarizes the news in a way that is fun and doesn’t take long at all to read.
It’s a free subscription, and here’s the website if you want to learn more.
I’ve never heard of TheSkimm, but this problem is very real and it’s cool to see someone trying to solve the problem. I’m sure a major difficulty in the process is trying to capture the most relevant pieces of news that will speak to a broad audience.
They meet back up at NBC news, that’s amazing! It shows that they were really close to the problem and that they know what the are talking about. It being a free subscription doesn’t hurt either.