Welcome to Subscriber First,

Thanks so much for reading.

Allow me introduce myself and this site. My name is David Rood and I'm National Subscriber Editor for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. After almost 15 years working as a journalist in Sydney and Melbourne, including, most recently editing The Sun-Herald, I'm proud to launch Subscriber First.

Along with the first of our exclusive subscriber newsletters Weekend Insight, this site strives to give you - our most engaged and loyal readers - premium access to news, features and analysis from our stable of award winning journalists and correspondents.

The tagline of Subscriber First is 'the biggest stories curated just for you'. And that's what I'll do - provide you with the news exclusives and commentary from our journalists in Sydney, and across the world, to help make sense of the news agenda and take you behind the story.

The edition based site is curated twice daily - midnight and noon - and is not afraid to place a premium and priority on analysis and commentary to complement the news as it breaks.

You can sign-on to our subscriber-only newsletter Weekend Insight, which gives subscribers a first look at the best of our weekend content at noon on Friday - before anyone else. (And keep your eye out for our new e-newsletter from Editor-in-Chief Darren Goodsir)

Any feedback on the site is welcome and can be sent to drood@fairfaxmedia.com.au

Kind regards,

David