News Publication · Charlotte

The Charlotte Ledger

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The Charlotte Ledger is the independently owned local news outlet covering business, development and civic affairs in Charlotte through a set of email newsletters. It is subscriber funded instead of advertising led, and it has built a reputation for breaking commercial property and city hall stories before anyone else in the market. Its Real Estate Whispers newsletter is read closely by people in the development business.

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Coverage runs across several newsletters instead of one publication.
It broke the memo reporting on the CMS superintendent’s suspension.
Much of the reporting sits behind a paid subscription.
It was founded after the contraction of the city’s legacy newsrooms.

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Spotlight story 1,500 words and a Rolodex: how Tony Mecia built The Charlotte Ledger Three months after the magazine he wrote for closed, a former Observer business editor emailed a newsletter to a handful of friends. Within a week it had its first scoop. Within a year it had a paywall, and Charlotte had a new kind of newspaper. Read the story →

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