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Upward News is a free daily conservative news newsletter covering U.S. politics, policy and culture. Every weekday our team sorts through hundreds of sources and condenses the most important stories, including the ones the mainstream media buried or underplayed, into a briefing you can read in about five minutes. Ariel David founded Upward News in 2020, and it now reaches more than 113,000 email subscribers.
Yes. The daily newsletter is free: sign up here. The free edition carries ads. Readers who want more can become members; annual plans include a free trial, and a Friends & Family plan shares one membership with up to four other people.
Upward News is written for conservatives, and we say so. Our news stories follow a strict no-opinion policy, and every non-obvious fact links to its source. Independent raters agree on where we sit: AllSides rates Upward News “Lean Right,” and Media Bias/Fact Check rates it “Right-Center” with high credibility.
Founder and editor-in-chief Ariel David chooses the stories and assigns them to a small team of Gen Z American writers. Brandon Goldman is the managing editor. Full details are on our masthead.
Upward News is independent and bootstrapped. We have turned down both nonprofit donor money and investor funding. Reader memberships and occasional sponsors pay for our work, and the free newsletters carry programmatic ads. Everything else, including a one-time 2025 grant that carried no editorial conditions, is disclosed on our masthead and ownership page.
The newsletter arrives every weekday morning, and most readers finish it in about five minutes.
Yes, two. Upward News To-Go is the daily audio edition for members, under 10 minutes an episode; listen here. Redshift with Ariel David is a free interview show about the people and ideas reshaping American power, on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
We keep an honest guide to the best conservative newsletters, plus side-by-side comparisons with Morning Wire, The Dispatch and The Free Press.
We run the correction at the top of the next day's newsletter and in the web article. Our rules for sourcing, opinion and corrections are in our editorial guidelines.
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