newsletter
Americannoun
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newsletters
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a written report, issued periodically, typically by a business, institution, or other organization, that presents information and news to people with a specific interest in the organization or subject.
our co-op’s monthly newsletter;
an employee newsletter.
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a written report and analysis of the news, often providing forecasts, typically directed at a special audience, as businesspeople, and distributed to subscribers.
a stock-market newsletter.
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Also called: news-sheet. a printed periodical bulletin circulated to members of a group
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history a written or printed account of the news
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of newsletter
Explanation
A newsletter is a regular, periodic publication that provides information to a specific group of people. You might subscribe to a newsletter that gives you shopping tips, or one that features information about caring for your pet ferret. Belonging to a club or a church sometimes includes receiving monthly newsletters full of news and upcoming events. Schools often send newsletters home to students' parents, so they know what's happening during the semester. Many newsletters are printed on paper and sent through the mail, while others are distributed via email. The term newsletter was common in the seventeenth century, but it fell out of favor for many years until a revival in the twentieth century.
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Politico Editor-in-Chief Jonathan Greenberger said in an internal email, shared in the outlet's Playbook newsletter, that the company stands by its reporters and will "vigorously defend" their First Amendment rights.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, Slate’s politics newsletter that welcomes Mitch McConnell back to the Senate.
From Slate ● Sep. 19, 2026
In the next free issue of my Let’s Analyze newsletter on Substack, I’ll reveal the company, explain why I’m buying more and share the price I’m targeting.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
Jane Friedman, a books industry veteran who tracks publishing news, trends and the intersection with technology in her newsletter “The Bottom Line,” says that intense literary fandoms aren’t entirely new.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
The boy, the story reported, not only wrote, directed, and acted in his school’s plays, but he also illustrated and edited his summer camp’s newsletter.
From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow
On the assumption that the non-surviving portfolios were behind the market when they went out of existence, the Vanguard 500 Index fund’s performance rank among the newsletters is at the 92nd percentile.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
Keep track by signing up to newsletters that list upcoming openings in the local area.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
They are available across digital, social, newsletters and mobile platforms after they air on “Today.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2026
Starting Wednesday, Nexstar will offer The HIll Insider, which will carry daily streaming video programs and newsletters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
Yet it’s considered acceptable if it’s done unknowingly by earnest but ignorant publishers of stock newsletters, or by practitioners of quack medicine, or by television evangelists.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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