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We are an old school news clipping service re-imagined for the digital age. You probably don’t have six hours a day to go through and organize all the news that’s available on the topic of cities…so we’ll do it for you.

Every day we comb through over 1,500 articles and blog posts to bring you the most interesting news, blogs, and research about cities and urban policy.

The Overhead Wire Daily Premium includes our front page articles, Quote of the Day, Most Read from the day before, and recommended reads for those on a time crunch. You also get access to our tagged archive on the website with over 100,000 links to past posted stories.

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After the monthly trial ends, you can subscribe to any of the options below to continue receiving premium features, or be transferred to a limited daily email.

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Sign up now and get news and information about cities in your inbox each weekday morning for 48 weeks*. Get a leg up with information you can use in your work and advocacy today.

Premium Daily Subscription

The Premium Daily Subscription is our most information packed offering, chock full of over 40 pieces of news Monday through Thursday in five different topic areas; transportation, urban design, urban issues, environment and ecology and research. Included are popular features such as the quote of the day and the most read article from the previous day. Also included is our weekly roundup on Friday for times when you are strapped for time but need to know what everyone else might be reading.

The Premium Daily Includes

Our front page articles each day – 40+ selected articles in our five categories from our daily search of over 1,500 news and blog pieces around the country
Weekly email roundup of the five most read articles with a link to our weekly podcast
A Quote of the Day taken from news that day on important urban issues
The single most read item from the previous newsletter
Three recommended news pieces if you’re in a time crunch
Includes access to over 100,000 archived news links tagged and searchable by city and topic

Pricing for the Premium Daily Subscription

Annual $150/Year. Signup
Monthly $15/Month. Signup
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Premium Weekly Subscription

The Premium Weekly Subscription is for professionals constantly under a time crunch. We take the most read items from the week before and share them with subscribers.

The Premium Weekly Includes

One item each day in four topic areas: Transportation, Urbanism and Design, Urban Issues, Environment and Ecology
A weekly email roundup on Fridays of the five most read articles

Pricing for the Premium Weekly Subscription

Annual $35/Year. Signup

Praise for The Overhead Wire Daily

Jeff’s newsletter has been my most essential morning read for many years. It’s the perfect digest of North American transport planning and urbanism news, leavened with some international material as well. It is rare that I see interesting news items that weren’t in the newsletter.

Jarrett Walker, Jarrett Walker + Associates

Jeff’s newsletter is an invaluable resource. It helps me quickly get a pulse on what’s happening across the country, to see trends and emerging themes, and to make sure I am getting out beyond my filter bubble.

Dani Simons, Alstom

I receive lots and lots of newsletters in my inbox every day. Some of which I signed up for, many of which I did not. And the only one that I make a point of opening just about every day is Jeff’s newsletter, The Overhead Wire.

Emily Badger, New York Times

…the first thing I read every morning is the newsletter to see what’s been out there. It’s great to have an aggregator that pulls everything together so nicely.

Joe Cortright, City Observatory

There’s really nobody who fills the niche that The Overhead Wire does in terms of educating people and informing people about news as well as academic research around transportation, around climate, around cities.

David Zipper, MIT Mobility Initiative

What other readers are saying…

“Provides links to lots of stories I wouldn’t see, which I then use in my own articles on transportation and urbanism.”

“It saves me time by compiling a list of relevant articles to help jumpstart my day. As a transportation professional in the public sector, I struggle to find time to read as much as I want. The digest helps target my reading to further my professional development and intellectual curiosity.”

“There are some interesting design, urban, city articles that do not come up on the other feeds.”

“As the main source of my daily transportation news, I think it is extremely valuable. It provides insight to the issues and advances other agencies are facing.”

“The diversity of locally based urban news is superior to any other collection I’ve seen over the 10+ years I’ve been subscribed “

“I am pretty busy and don’t have time to comb twitter or every blog for a fresh take on transportation. So, if I am going to take time away from work to relax and check up on what is going on in the transportation world outside my office, I’m going to Jeff’s list first. And not everybody else in the office is on it, so I feel comfortable sharing stuff with peers and superiors knowing that it’s not “old news” or “fluff.”

“It offers a really wide range of city/transportation issues, helping me connect the dots between different topics and seeing how they relate to my work in bike/ped research.”

“Definitely valuable. It brings insight as to what other places are doing and puts the idea on my radar.”

“With 3 minutes, I can keep up with the big stories shaping cities.”

*We typically take four weeks off a year in addition to traditional United States national holidays. Two weeks at the end of the year around the Christmas Holiday and two other weeks for vacation to keep us fresh for work.