ty for loving us
Happy New Year’s Eve eve, Deezers! We know your inbox is viciously getting ganged up on emails galore rn, but ya girl needed to take the moment to thank you for an excellent year of link dropping and media tea spillage.
As old school Deez readers know, this newsletter first began in February 2016 — almost three years ago! — as an experimental dumping ground for spicy takes and media industry happenings. It’s since evolved into a sleek af (thanks Substack!!) passion project that has given us the space to Deezsplain the good, the bad, and the Axios in media, and connected us to so many talented voices, including yours, duh!
Our top 2k18 highlights:
Deez Links started this year off with 168 subscribers. Now we’re standing 600+ strong, baby! Maybe we’ll get jackets next year?
We moved off TinyLetter (though you can still peep the archives here) and joined the Substack party, and we extremely love it here. The water’s nice.
We expanded our Friday Q&A series to include interviews with killer media professionals all around the world, including personal faves like Jessica Valenti, Caroline Moss, and Kara Cutruzzula.
We made beauteous Deez Links tote bags, and you guys make us feel pretty damn metal when you send us pics of that tote action out in the world.
And, okay, real talk? Having the space and support to sound off about all things media and dive deep into the work of cool people in the industry has given me, personally, a nearly stupid amount of joy. And it’s something I’d love to keep doing with you all until the end times come and they shut the internet off and zombies pry the keyboards from ya girl’s cold dead hands.
Thanks for subscribing, reading, clicking, forwarding, buying a bag, doing interviews, reading interviews, and DM-ing us your own takes so we feel less alone in the digital universe. Tell all your non-subscriber friends what they’re missing out on, and we’ll hit you back up in the new year! We’ve got big plans.
(Psssst. If you’re going to be in New York City on Feb. 23, save the date for our 3 year bday bash! It’s high time we partied together, no?)
-Delia