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Chris Stanford likes to think of himself as a “news concierge.”

Every day, around 6 a.m. Eastern, he sends the U.S. Morning Briefing, one of The New York Times’s most popular newsletters, to 1.6 million subscribers. Like a version of the front page, it curates the day’s most important stories, but it also leaves room for lighthearted features and is written in a conversational voice.

Alexandra S. Levine and Jonathan Wolfe, who write another popular newsletter, New York Today, think of themselves as friends of their readers, “gently nudging them awake” to tell them the most interesting things going on in New York City.

The Times’s newsletter subscribers, whether they’re looking for a concierge, a friend, a guide to the Trump administration or a lighthearted essay to wake up with, total more than 14 million. The 55 newsletters they currently subscribe to strike topics including the day’s biggest news, commentary on social issues, cooking and much more. Newsletters can be a way to streamline news coverage and separate what’s consequential from what’s trending.