Westfair, Daily Voice Begin New Subscription Service

Two local media enterprises – Daily Voice and Westfair Communications, which publishes the Westchester County Business Journal, the Fairfield County Business Journal and WAG magazine – have announced a new collaboration.

The two media companies will combine talents in an exclusive digital format for local news: Daily Voice Plus.

The new partnership will pair the Daily Voice’s news coverage and its more than 700,000 viewers with Westfair Communications’ longtime experience and expertise in covering the concerns and issues affecting local businesses, officials said in a press release.

“Viewers and subscribers to Daily Voice Plus will soon realize the value of our two organizations working together to bring them complete local news, daily," said Dee DelBello, Westfair’s publisher. "During the course of our collaboration, we plan on bringing more and more exciting programs that will not only be useful but entertaining.”

They'll also offer profiles of business movers and shakers and feature stories.

Debuting April 3, this website offers premium content from both these operations, drawing on the news of the Daily Voice network combined with the specialty reporting of Westfair Communications, including its award-winning lifestyle publication, WAG magazine, which is designed for a luxury readership. Both organizations, worth noting, are locally based, locally reported and locally edited.

Collaboration is not new in the news industry; joint operating agreements have existed for years among newspapers and television stations, officials said. Earlier this year, the Center for Investigative Reporting announced an initiative to foster local news collaborations and advance community-focused, in-depth, investigative storytelling.

Its founders said they believe Daily Voice Plus will mark a groundbreaking regional collaboration, the teaming of an entirely online news source with Westfair Communications, which offers its business journals and sister publication WAG magazine in both print and online editions.

This collaboration is designed to be beneficial to each news organization as well as to local readers, bringing the skills and specialties of Westfair Communications to a venture that capitalizes on the reach of Daily Voice.

The Business Journals were founded more than 50 years by a descendant of Joseph Pulitzer, David Moore. To this day, throughout its ownership history, the Journals have remained the only local business newspapers covering all the breaking business news in real estate, economic development, education, hospitality, heath care, technology – everything impacting Fairfield and Westchester counties and the Hudson Valley. Profiles of entrepreneurs, business owners and other successful ventures – along with investigative work – are all captured in the Journals, which have extended their service through hosting business events and a vital website.

Daily Voice was founded by Carll Tucker in 2010 and is the premier provider of local suburban news in the New York metro region. Ted Yang, president of Cantata Media, which now operates Daily Voice, said, “Our new subscription product will bring together the best local reporting in lifestyle, politics and business to Fairfield and Westchester counties. We will go deeper and show the full local picture that our neighbors care about.”