01 — Local
Your places
Neighborhoods, cities, the county line, and what changed there overnight.
A personalized newspaper platform
Your world. In print.
A physical newspaper built around your places, work, interests and daily rhythm.
Read and be done.
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Personalized
Built from your world
Physical
Ink on real paper
Timely
Printed that morning
Screen-free
Ends when you do
The problem
The scroll never ends. Your paper does.
A feed is built to keep going. A paper is built to be finished — and then put down.
The feedNo end
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Weekend guide: five places worth leaving the house for
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What goes in
A paper built from your day.
Three inputs. One edition. Nothing you did not ask for.
02 — Work
Your industry
Markets, regulation, competitors, and the companies you actually track.
03 — Life
Your interests
Teams, hobbies, restaurants, comics, and the weekend worth planning for.
Build your paper
Start with your world, not a feed.
Choose what belongs in your edition. The front page changes as you do.
Orange County Edition
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Morning
First Fold
Built for one reader
3 sections
Printed on pickup
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Sample edition
Made for exactly one reader.
Orange County Edition
Real estate · Energy · Local business · Debt markets · Sports
Sample
First Fold
Volume 1
Built for one reader
16 pages
Front page
Industry
California energy demand pushes businesses toward onsite storage
Industry
EV charging demand creates new commercial property plays
Local
Orange County development watch
Markets
Debt buyers track regulatory movement across key states
Business
Three local expansions filed this week
Sports
Your teams in five minutes
Weekend
Five local places worth leaving the house for
Comics
A familiar page, made personal again
Weekend
Five local places worth the trip
Planned around where you already are.
Comics
The back page, kept
A familiar ritual, made personal again.
Events
What fits your week
Filtered by calendar, distance and taste.
Markets
Only the tickers you hold
No index you never look at.
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How it works
Preferences to paper.
Step 01
Choose
Places, topics, teams, routines and how long you want to read.
Step 02
Assemble
A readable edition is laid out around you, not around a homepage.
Step 03
At a kiosk or partner location on the way you already go.
Step 04
Finish
No endless feed. Set your paper down and get your day back.
Partners
Put it where people already stop.
A First Fold point is a small footprint on a floor that already has the foot traffic.
HotelsLobbies with a morning rhythm.
AirportsDwell time with nothing to read.
Office towersThe same people, every weekday.
Corporate campusesA perk that costs no screen time.
UniversitiesReaders building the habit early.
Retail centersA reason to stay a little longer.
Coffee shopsThe natural home of a newspaper.
ResidentialA morning amenity residents keep.
No inventory riskNothing is printed until a reader asks for it.
Under four square feetA pickup point fits where a sign already stands.
Branded page spaceYour location appears inside the paper it prints.
Contributors
Readers already asked for your beat.
First Fold places your work in papers built by people who chose your subject on purpose.
JournalistsReported work, credited in print
Local reportersThe beat only you cover
Industry analystsDepth for the people who need it
Newsletter writersOff the inbox, onto the page
Comic creatorsThe back page, restored
Sports writersRecaps that fit five minutes
PublishersNew distribution, same rights
ExpertsA column with a real audience
Pickup
Printed when you arrive.
Save your order the night before. Your edition prints on demand and folds itself at the machine.
90 secondsFrom tap to folded paper in hand.
Nothing wastedNo unsold stacks, because nothing prints early.
Your First Fold is ready.
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Printing · folding · trimming
Standards
Relevant does not mean careless.
First Fold uses credible sourcing, clear attribution, labeled content types and responsible editorial workflows, so you always know where a page came from.
Credible sourcingMaterial comes from identified publishers and contributors.
Clear attributionEvery item carries its source and its byline.
Labeled contentReporting, opinion, sponsored and summary are marked.
Review workflowEditorial checks sit between selection and print.
Investor signal
A new format for a personalized world.
Personalization software, physical distribution, partner networks and on-demand print fulfillment in one system.
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Relevance enginePreferences, location and timing resolved into one edition.
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Partner networkDistribution built on floors that already have traffic.
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Contributor supplyWriters who gain readers that opted into their subject.
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Print on demandNo inventory, no returns, no unsold run.
Start here
Build the paper you would finish.
Two minutes of preferences. One edition that ends.
Read and be done.