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My Favorite Newsletter Editions

I currently co-write a daily newsletter called The Daily Download. For the previous 2 years I wrote the subject line and introduction for one of our three daily email newsletters, which we've since merged into one. I also work on UX/UI best practices, audience research, story curation, and competitor research for the newsletter.   

Below are a few newsletter subject lines and introductions I wrote (before we merged the newsletters into one!). 

p.s. I apologize for the amount of times newsletter is written on this page.

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Turning Chopsticks Into Furniture

Good morning. Today is April 6, and the first modern Olympic Games opened on this date in 1896 in Athens, Greece. The first gold medal winner? American James Connolly, who won the triple jump — and suspiciously has three sets of double letters in his last name.

- North America imports about 40–50 billion pairs of chopsticks every year. ChopValue is turning hundreds of millions of the discarded utensils into furniture...
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Teenager Builds Windmill To Save Family Farm

Good morning! Today is May 9 — only a few days left to get a Mother’s Day gift! On this day in 1914, President Woodrow Wilson lobbied Congress to officially declare the second Sunday of every May Mother’s Day.

- William Kamkwamba built a windmill to save his family's farm. The 14-year-old had no internet and no machines: just a few diagrams. But he succeeded, and now he's a pioneer in sustainable engineering...
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A Bible Study Group Turned Craft Brewing Business

Good morning and happy Friday! Today is April 21, the birthday of the legendary Scottish-American naturalist and conservationist John Muir. He founded the Sierra Club, helped preserve Yosemite Valley and other prominent lands, and popularized the belief that humans are inherently part of nature, not above it.

- Who would guess a bible study group could lead to a craft brewing business? Well, an Atlanta Bible study group did just that by turning into Monday Night Brewing, a beer business...