Two unique editorial-driven opportunities will help The Desk reach new audiences with its premium journalism and contextual analysis of the media and technology industries.
Starting this week, The Desk‘s daily news reporting is now available on Peaklight, a news platform geared toward media and entertainment professionals that offers supplemental media and contextualized research alongside our original journalism and exclusive reporting.
A subscription to The Desk via Peaklight costs $10 per month. Peaklight includes the same daily articles that are available for free on The Desk, but with the added value of a dedicated Context Stream that provides granular information about topics covered in each story, including summary tiles from Wikipedia, short-form videos from YouTube, market research from Dataxis and podcasts from Spotify.
“Reading an industry article used to mean opening 10 tabs to look up executives, find data, and verify claims,” Lukas Luft, the founder and developer of Peaklight, said in a statement. “We use AI differently than ChatGPT or Perplexity: to curate and surface original sources, not generate summaries. Every context card links directly to its publisher, analyst or data provider.”
Luft said Peaklight endeavors to supplement original journalism and analysis with contextualized tiles from “trusted sources,” not “synthetic content” found on some other platforms.
The Desk joins a number of other respected publications launching on the Peaklight platform this week, which includes reporting and analysis from TV REV, Andrew Rosen’s The Medium, Stream Scoop and Ted on TV. Additional publication partners will be announced in the coming weeks and months.
In addition to its editorial partnership with Peaklight, The Desk‘s original reporting will also be featured in The One Sheet, a newsletter published by Mediaite that offers a 30,000-foot view of original reporting and scoops from a variety of media-focused newsletters and news organizations.
Founded by Dan Abrams in 2009, Mediaite delivers top-level aggregation of media-driven stories and news clips to millions of readers on a monthly basis. Now, Mediaite is shining a spotlight on the best reporting on the news industry itself with The One Sheet, which will be available to subscribers of Mediaite Plus at $7 per month.
The Desk is one of three dozen sources that editors and reporters will scan through on a daily basis — and this publication already received a mention in The One Sheet’s first edition delivered to subscribers on Wednesday. Other sources for One Sheet include CNN’s “Reliable Sources” by Brian Stelter, “Status” by Oliver Darcy, “On Background” by Adweek, “In the Room” by Puck, “First Take” by The Wrap and media-focused newsletters published by Semafor, Digiday, Morning Brew, Nieman Lab, Poynter and the Columbia Journalism Review.
“Our partnership with Peaklight, and the recognition offered by Mediaite, is a testament to the premium journalism, analysis and information that The Desk publishes on a daily basis,” Matthew Keys, the publisher and editor of The Desk, said on Wednesday. “These partnerships offer a number of opportunities to collaborate with innovative news publishers in a way that super-serves our audiences and the industries that comprise our coverage areas.”
