Editor’s note: Introducing Heard Around Town

We at City & State love newsletters. From First Read to Albany Agenda to the dearly departed Campaign Confidential, they’re how we keep you informed. And now we know you’re going to fall in love with a new one.

We’re launching a new premium newsletter called Heard Around Town that’ll be filled with all the stuff that people are whispering about on the sidelines of press conferences.

Heard Around Town will have scoops, sharp analysis and a first look at filings you won’t read anywhere else. And it won’t be on our website – you can only get it in your inbox, every Tuesday and Friday afternoon starting May 19.

You can learn more and sign up here. The newsletter is going to feature reporting by the whole City & State team, and it will be edited by City & State News & Opinion Editor Peter Sterne, who’s taking on a new role shepherding Heard Around Town. Sterne was the first one to break the news that Zohran Mamdani was considering running for mayor, and he’ll be bringing that reporting to Heard Around Town.

I’m also proud to announce a pair of promotions. Rebecca C. Lewis is now state bureau chief, and Sophie Krichevsky is now state editor.

Lewis has been driving our coverage of Albany and state politics for nearly a decade and is a thorn in Gov. Kathy Hochul’s side in all the right and fair ways a reporter should be. Krichevsky has been a star editor and reporter with City & State for the better part of two years, and she will be guiding our state coverage with Lewis and State Politics Reporter Kate Lisa.

As City & State looks back on our 20th anniversary, I’m proud to be moving forward with a revamped team, and with Heard Around Town.