984 Washington St, Gloucester, MA 01930 Weekdays 8am–4:30pm (978) 460-4979 map my launch

Contact · 984 Washington St, Gloucester

8:02 a.m. on Washington Street: harbor fog on the window, coffee going cold, and your launch note open on the desk.

Send a ship date, a deck, or just a hunch that your pilot data deserves a headline. Every note gets a reply from a human with kickoff times attached — not an auto-responder, not a sales sequence.

draft my brief or ring the desk: (978) 460-4979

Same desk, different signal

pick the frequency that matches your news

Read across like a tide table: what you’ve got, how urgent it is, and when to expect us back.

How to reach Fern & Foghorn, what each channel is best for, and when we reply
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call the desk (978) 460-4979

Your embargo is under three weeks out, or your sector just made news and you want to be quoted on it this week.

 live, weekdays 8–4:30Voicemails returned the same day. ring now
email projects@fernfoghorn.com

You’ve got attachments: the deck, a draft release, a pilot report with the numbers you’re proudest of.

 within one weekdayUsually with a couple of call slots. write to us
the brief two minutes, below

You’re not sure yet if it’s a launch, a sprint or just a press kit — tell us the moment and we’ll sort the shape.

 within one weekdayWith a suggested format and price. fill the brief
knock on the door 984 Washington St

You’re on Cape Ann anyway and would rather talk embargo dates across a table than over Zoom.

 weekdays, call aheadLaunch weeks mean closed-door briefings. plan a visit

Start the countdown

the brief — two minutes, and pencil dates count

what’s about to ship?

Rough is fine. We’d rather read three honest lines than a polished paragraph.

The moment we’d be working toward
“Week of March 9” or “sometime in Q1” both work.

after you hit send

  1. t+0

    It lands in one inbox at 984 Washington St. Not a CRM, not a shared ticket queue.

  2. same weekday

    A reply from a person, with two or three slots for a 30-minute call. Notes sent after 4:30pm get read at 8 the next weekday.

  3. the call

    Thirty minutes on three things: your date, the number you’d defend to a skeptical reporter, and the outlet you wish would ring you.

  4. two weekdays later

    A written scope with a fixed price — press kit $2,850, outreach sprint $4,650/mo, full launch $11,900 — and a runway counted back from your date.

no drip emails. no “just circling back.” one reply, then it’s your move.

Riso-print illustration of the Fern & Foghorn desk at dawn: embargoed press releases, a tide chart on the wall, and Gloucester harbor in fog through the window.

The view we write pitches to. On clear days you can see the breakwater.

Come by the harbor

the desk on washington street

984 Washington St, Gloucester, MA 01930. Founders passing through Cape Ann are welcome — the coffee is decent and the whiteboard is big enough for a full 42-day runway.

when someone’s at the desk

  • Mon8–4:30
  • Tue8–4:30
  • Wed8–4:30
  • Thu8–4:30
  • Fri8–4:30
  • Satclosed
  • Sunclosed

Weekdays 8am–4:30pmembargo mornings only, from 5:30

getting to cape ann

by road
Route 128 north runs right into Gloucester; Washington Street is where you want to end up. Plug in 984 Washington St and you’re there.
by rail
The Rockport Line runs from Boston’s North Station to Gloucester — bring the laptop, it’s a good stretch for rehearsing your two-line pitch.
before you come
Call (978) 460-4979 first. On launch weeks the door can be shut for an embargoed briefing.
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Reporters, investors, early birds

not launching anything? the line’s still open

Reporters on deadline

need a climate source by five?

Email with DEADLINE in the subject line and your filing time. If one of our founders genuinely fits the story, you get a name and a number. If nobody does, we say so instead of pitching you sideways.

email the desk, subject: DEADLINE
Investors & accelerators

sending a portfolio company over?

A two-line intro is plenty — copy the founder and we’ll take it from there. Early is good: we’d rather meet a team at t–90 than t–9, when the kit still has room to breathe.

make the intro
Milestone still cooking

too early for a headline?

Send the date you’re aiming at anyway. If the news isn’t there yet, we’ll tell you on the call and point to the milestone that would make it a story — rather than selling you a kit you don’t need yet.

send a date in pencil

your embargo date is the only thing we need to start counting backwards.

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