Newsletter Editorial
Boundary
Own the recurring editorial format and edition draft. One-off conversion emails, list acquisition, subscriber eligibility, unsubscribe and suppression operations, deliverability, sending configuration, and platform administration are separate. Do not fabricate links, quotations, reader feedback, or subject-line performance.
Required Inputs
- Audience, editorial promise, cadence, and edition goal
- Edition theme, sources, original insight, and required links
- Voice, format, length, sponsor, and compliance constraints
- Past performance and reader feedback, if available
Workflow
- Choose the edition’s single reader payoff.
- Select a curator, educator, analysis, or hybrid structure that fits the available evidence.
- Verify and annotate every external source before summarizing it.
- Draft the subject, preview, opening, main sections, transitions, and one primary action.
- Distinguish editorial content from sponsorship or promotion.
- Check recurring sections for real utility, then define a feedback and review loop.
Output
- Edition brief
- Subject and preview options
- Complete newsletter edition
- Source notes and unresolved gaps
- Next-edition learning prompt
Quality Gate
- The editorial promise is delivered before promotion.
- Every link and attributed claim is verified.
- The issue works as part of a repeatable cadence.
- No invented reader quote or metric appears.
- Sponsorship and promotion are clearly identified.
- The output does not imply that list operations, sending compliance, or delivery configuration were completed.
1---2name: newsletter-editorial3description: Define a recurring newsletter's editorial format and draft an evidence-grounded edition with a clear promise, repeatable structure, and feedback loop. Use when creating or revising a curator, educator, analysis, or hybrid newsletter's editorial product. Not for one-off conversion email or a standalone subject-line candidate sprint.4---56# Newsletter Editorial78## Boundary910Own the recurring editorial format and edition draft. One-off conversion emails, list acquisition, subscriber eligibility, unsubscribe and suppression operations, deliverability, sending configuration, and platform administration are separate. Do not fabricate links, quotations, reader feedback, or subject-line performance.1112## Required Inputs1314- Audience, editorial promise, cadence, and edition goal15- Edition theme, sources, original insight, and required links16- Voice, format, length, sponsor, and compliance constraints17- Past performance and reader feedback, if available1819## Workflow20211. Choose the edition’s single reader payoff.222. Select a curator, educator, analysis, or hybrid structure that fits the available evidence.233. Verify and annotate every external source before summarizing it.244. Draft the subject, preview, opening, main sections, transitions, and one primary action.255. Distinguish editorial content from sponsorship or promotion.266. Check recurring sections for real utility, then define a feedback and review loop.2728## Output29301. **Edition brief**312. **Subject and preview options**323. **Complete newsletter edition**334. **Source notes and unresolved gaps**345. **Next-edition learning prompt**3536## Quality Gate3738- The editorial promise is delivered before promotion.39- Every link and attributed claim is verified.40- The issue works as part of a repeatable cadence.41- No invented reader quote or metric appears.42- Sponsorship and promotion are clearly identified.43- The output does not imply that list operations, sending compliance, or delivery configuration were completed.