Standards · Calendar
What we publish, and when.
Nova Observatory publishes on a predictable cadence. Readers should know what to expect in their inbox and on the homepage each day, each week, each month.
Cadence
Morning Briefings
Mon–Fri, 06:30 GMT
Five short bullets, one editor's note.
Field Notes
1–2 / week
On-the-ground reporting from corridors.
The Numbers
Weekly
One chart, one paragraph, one source.
Counterweight
Every other week
Considered disagreement with the prevailing thesis.
Big Read
Monthly · first Friday
15–25h investigations, 4,000–8,000 words.
The Nova Letter
Weekly · Sunday 17:00
Editor-in-chief's dispatch to subscribers.
Cross-Border Capital Index
Monthly · first Monday
Composite score across the corridors Nova covers.
Opinion (guest)
Monthly
Commissioned outside contributor, edited by Nova.
Pre-launch ramp
Four weeks before public opening, the editorial catalogue is built out so readers arrive to a library, not a single article.
Week -4
- 1 Cover Essay
- 2 articles per pillar (6 × 2 = 12)
- 1 article per corridor (6)
Week -3
- 6 test briefings
- 3 Field Notes entries
- 2 The Numbers entries
Week -2
- Big Read #1
- The Nova Letter #1 (private)
- Cross-Border Capital Index — inaugural publication
Week -1
- Polish, QA
- Source verification across the catalogue
- Smoke test of every route
At launch: ~25 long articles, 6 briefings, 3 columns started, 1 Big Read, 1 Letter, 1 Index — 8 to 15 hours of reading.
Big Read pipeline · 12 months
- 01The diaspora is the largest unbanked balance sheet
- 02Inside FMBN: anatomy of the largest formal diaspora mortgage program
- 03Stablecoins are not remittance rails. They are collateral rails.
- 04What Argentina taught us about USDC as a household currency
- 05The SCPI question: why French real estate became diaspora collateral
- 06AIFMD II and the rise of private credit funds nobody asked for
- 07Lebanon, dollarized: a decade of capital controls and the diaspora that financed it
- 08The Philippines $40bn corridor and the rails that haven't shipped yet
- 09Brazil's PIX vs USDC: a comparison nobody is making honestly
- 10Turkey, the lira, and the German-Turkish diaspora's quiet euroization
- 11Côte d'Ivoire: the most institutionally credible UEMOA market for diaspora capital
- 12The next $1tn: what the next decade of diaspora finance will look like
Pillar articles, Field Notes, The Numbers and Counterweight pipelines are kept open and driven by current events.