Dear Readers,
It has been a long time since you've heard from me – properly, at least. For some of you, it may be the first time that Inkcap has appeared in your inbox at all.
Let me re-introduce myself. I am Sophie Yeo. I founded Inkcap Journal in 2020. It was borne of my belief that nature in Britain deserved robust and in-depth journalism.
For a couple of years, Inkcap was my baby. I worked long hours, publishing in-depth features, alongside a weekly digest of nature news. It did remarkably well: we partnered with the Guardian, had work cited across publications including the Times and National Geographic, and won the Press Gazette Newsletter of the Year award.
Then, in 2022, I had an actual baby. In 2025, I had another baby. The weekly digest continued, but original journalism was mostly pushed to the wayside. Babies are tiring.
Now, however, I am now back at work. I am super excited to say that, today, Inkcap is relaunching. I still believe in that mission statement from 2020. Nature is fascinating, but conservation is complex. Journalists need to give it the time and attention it deserves.
What does relaunching mean in practice?
Here are the headlines:
- Inkcap Journal is now just Inkcap. That's what everyone calls us anyway.
- The weekly digest is now Ground Cover.
- Journalism is back. We have big plans.
- We have had a website and brand redesign. Check it out.
- We have restructured our membership plans.
I will share more about our journalistic ambitions with you shortly. Let's just say, I have spent many hours nap-trapped in the past three years, which has given me plenty of time to think about what the environmental media needs right now, and what Inkcap is best placed to provide.
Membership
On memberships, we now have two tiers:
- Inkcap (£29 per year) for those who want to read our journalism only.
- Inkcap+ (£50 per year) for people who want access to Ground Cover, our weekly digest of nature news. Here's a sample from last week:
Inkcap
We also have institutional memberships available: read more on our Memberships page.
We will continue to publish some of our journalism for free, but our most in-depth pieces will go to members only. This is necessary for the kind of stories we want to produce: nuanced, creative, deeply reported... in other words, expensive.
Get in touch
Our readers are our greatest assets. I am a writer, which means I spend too much time at my desk. Many of you are out there, every day, making nature restoration happen.
So I want to know what you want. What would be helpful to you. What's missing elsewhere. The trends we should be following and the people we should be contacting. So please: introduce yourself. Get in touch by either leaving a comment online or repling to this email. I would love to hear from you.
Sophie Yeo
Editor of Inkcap
