Part 8 Appendix One: Email Newsletters Reading List
REPORTS and GUIDES
- “Back the Future — Email Newsletters as a Digital Channel for Journalism” — Polis/London School of Economics and Political Science. Available at: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/polis/2016/01/25/are-email-newsletters-the-future-for-digital-journalism/.
- “Guides” — MailChimp. Available at: http://mailchimp.com/resources/.
- “How to Create Email Newsletters That Don’t Suck” — HubSpot. Available at: http://offers.hubspot.com/email-newsletters-that-dont-suck/.
- “Final Findings from My Independent Study on Email Newsletters” — Research by a UNC undergrad. Available at: http://kelseyweekman.web.unc.edu/2016/05/05/101/.
BLOG POSTS and ARTICLES
- “What We Learned from a Week of Prototyping a Newsletter in Public” — BuzzFeed. Available at: https://www.buzzfeed.com/millietran/what-we-learned-from-a-week-of-prototyping-a-newsletter-in-p?utm_term=.buZREmGLv#.clEON14Zb.
- “How Journalist Ann Friedman Built a Newsletter Empire” — NewsCred. Available at: https://insights.newscred.com/how-journalist-ann-friedman-built-a-newsletter-empire/.
- “15 Email Newsletter Examples We Love Getting in Our Inboxes” — HubSpot. Available at: http://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/email-newsletter-examples-list#sm.00014agq2cwybfffr611nufhv14ra.
- “You’ve Got Mail — Again: Rethinking the Role of Email Newsletters” — MediaShift. Available at: http://mediashift.org/2016/02/youve-got-mail-again-rethinking-the-role-of-email-newsletters/.
- “Sorry Ello, The Real Anti-Facebook Is Good Old Email” — Wired. Available at: https://www.wired.com/2015/09/sorry-ello-real-anti-facebook-good-old-email/.
- “For Email Newsletters, a Death Greatly Exaggerated” — The New York Times. Available at: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/30/business/media/for-email-a-death-greatly-exaggerated.html?_r=0.
- “How The Skimm’s Passionate Readership Helped Its Newsletter Grow to 1.5 million Subscribers” — NiemanLab. Available at: http://www.niemanlab.org/2015/08/how-the-skimms-passionate-readership-helped-its-newsletter-grow-to-1-5-million-subscribers/?relatedstory.
- “On Email Newsletters for Big Media” — Medium. Available at: https://medium.com/email-newsletter-stand/on-email-as-big-media-s-missed-opportunity-10645046b265#.8ps0pihfu.
- “Want to Start an Amazing Local Newsletter? Better Call Sol.,” Poynter, April 21, 2015. Available at: http://www.poynter.org/2015/want-to-start-an-amazing-local-newsletter-better-call-sol/337083/
- “GlobalPost’s Founder Hopes to Find Freedom from Platforms and Ads with a New Email Newsletter” — NiemanLab. Available at: http://www.niemanlab.org/2016/03/globalposts-founder-hopes-to-find-freedom-from-platforms-and-ads-with-a-new-email-newsletter/.
- “How to Build a Successful Newsletter: Advice from Quartz” — The Media Briefing. Available at: https://www.themediabriefing.com/article/quartz-newsletters-advice-simon-davies-daily-brief.
- “Quartz’s Email-Centric News Coverage” — MailChimp. Available at: https://blog.mailchimp.com/quartzs-email-centric-news-coverage/.
- “Quartz Increases Newsletter Readers by Going Simple” — NiemanLab. Available at: http://www.niemanlab.org/2014/04/quartz-increases-newsletter-readers-by-going-simple/.
- “4 Publisher Approaches to the Daily Newsletter” — Digiday. Available at: http://digiday.com/publishers/four-publisher-attempts-daily-newsletter/.
- “6 Crucial Email Newsletter Metrics You Should Be Monitoring” — HubSpot. Available at: http://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/email-newsletter-metrics-list#sm.00014agq2cwybfffr611nufhv14ra.
- “Email Newsletter Success Metrics: What You Need to Know” — MediaShift. Available at: http://mediashift.org/2015/01/email-newsletter-success-metrics-what-you-need-to-know/.
- “Email Marketing Benchmarks” — MailChimp. Available at: http://mailchimp.com/resources/research/email-marketing-benchmarks/.
- “Really Good Emails” — Available at: http://reallygoodemails.com/.
- “Emailing Teenagers the News: 8 Good Questions with Clover’s Liza Darwin and Casey Lewis” — American Press Institute. Available at: https://www.americanpressinstitute.org/publications/good-questions/email-newsletters-clover-liza-darwin-casey-lewis/.
- “New Video — ‘Hooked: Building Habit-Forming Products’” — Nir & Far. Available at: http://www.nirandfar.com/2013/02/new-video-hooked-the-psychology-of-how-products-engage-us.html.
- “How BuzzFeed Uses Email Marketing to Drive Their Phenomenal Growth” — Campaign Monitor. Available at: https://www.campaignmonitor.com/blog/customers/2015/04/buzzfeed-email-marketing/.
- “Newsletters, Briefings: Curating Content While Creating a Habit” — García Media. Available at: http://garciamedia.com/blog/newsletters_briefings_curating_content_while_creating_a_habit.
- “There Are at Least Eight Promising Business Models for Email Newsletters” — NiemanLab. Available at: http://www.niemanlab.org/2016/11/there-are-at-least-eight-promising-business-models-for-email-newsletters/.