This article takes a discursive perspective on intersubjectivity, exploring ways in which intersubjective meanings may be realized across texts, and the kinds of effects that arise from the combination of different forms. In particular, it focuses on how writers may exploit intersubjective choices to enact interaction with their intended audience. The article carries out an illustrative analysis on a small corpus of editorials from two British newspapers, one quality and one popular; and it demonstrates that there are clear connections between the readership of the two newspapers as described on their audience demographic webpages and the ways in which the editorial writers deploy the resources of interactant reference, mood and modality to construe different kinds of audience.