A PERSONAL MESSAGE / OPINION — On this house that’s usually reserved for world-class reporting and evaluation of worldwide safety points, we thought we’d do one thing completely different this Thanksgiving weekend and take a second to thanks and let you know the way a lot you encourage us and the way a lot you have got taught us concerning the worth of neighborhood.
After we got down to launch a brand new media firm again in 2015, our purpose was to create an unbiased and non-partisan publication that utilized deeply-experienced experience to the problems of the day. We needed to publish a product that went past telling you what occurred and produce you the expert-level context all of us want to assist navigate an more and more difficult world.
Greater than 9 years later, what we realized is that we didn’t simply create a publication, we created a neighborhood. Right this moment, The Cipher Temporary neighborhood consists of greater than 500K readers, subscribers and followers who deeply care concerning the high quality and perspective of knowledge on nationwide and international safety points.
To serve that neighborhood, we goal to publish a number of the finest reporting within the enterprise, we share expert-level opinion items and commentary (at all times clearly labeled ‘opinion’) and we offer evaluation that provides our subscribers a number of lenses by which to grasp occasions.
We’re extremely grateful to our workforce right here at The Cipher Temporary for pulling all of this collectively on daily basis in an simply digestible approach. And we’re extremely grateful for you. Operating a media publication in right now’s setting isn’t for the faint-hearted. You will have confirmed to us that’s it’s value it. You don’t simply learn the information – you contribute to the dialog, and you might be part of our neighborhood. We hearken to and worth your suggestions and consequently, we create new merchandise just like the Open Supply Report, to maintain you on top of things every day in the identical approach {that a} president’s workforce retains the nation’s senior management up to date.
We’re additionally grateful for the chance to provide credible, non-partisan, public-private sector occasions that carry collectively the world’s high minds on points starting from geopolitical headlines to the rising influence of cyber and rising know-how and starting in 2025, we’re focusing loads on the funding neighborhood, which is enjoying an more and more essential position in future U.S. and international safety. (Learn The Cipher Temporary’s Nightcap Publication to be among the many first to search out out about our convergence convention in Austin, Texas subsequent yr.)
This yr, lots of you joined us for The Cipher Temporary Risk Convention as CIA Director Invoice Burns shared with us the one factor that retains him up at evening, NSA Director Timothy Haugh informed us why the U.S. wants a ‘complete of nation’ strategy in terms of China and leaders from a number of the world’s most impactful corporations shared insights on how they’re innovating to remain forward of the threats.
We’re grateful to you all. Thanks for being part of The Cipher Temporary Neighborhood. Might coming collectively at all times ship extra worth to all of us, than going it alone.
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