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Every newsletter your team sends goes in one workspace, with a shared library that fills with the stories you publish and a clear view of which newsletters are working. Letterhead is built for teams running two to five newsletters, especially when their stories already live on a website.
The Long Read
Route 9, 5:42 AM
The last night bus on Route 9
by Dana Whitfield
Senior writer · 18 min read
For twenty-two years, Ray Delgado has driven the last bus out of downtown. The route was supposed to be cut in 2019. He never stopped driving it.
“The city changes every year. The 5:42 still leaves on time.”
Who rides a bus at five in the morning? We spent a season of night shifts finding out.
PART II
The winter schedule
In January the first run leaves in the dark and comes back in the dark. For eleven weeks, the only light on Route 9 is the one over the fare box.
Continue readingFive soups and the week's best reads
The heat came on this week. Our food editor picked five soups, and our editors picked the stories worth your Saturday.
Five soups for the first cold snap
From quick to all-afternoon.
Three storefronts reopen on Main Street
A bakery, a bike shop and a record store.
The new bus lines, in one map
Where the four routes run and when they start.
“We planned the routes for 2040. The riders showed up this year.”
— Transit director Lena Ortiz, on the vote
The week in numbers
Photos of the week
The Morning Brief
Five things to know before your first coffee
Good morning. The council passed the transit plan after midnight, the school board's budget is out, and a cold front arrives by the weekend. Here's what matters today.
Transit plan passes
Council approved four new bus lines 6–3 after months of debate.
School budget released
Class sizes hold steady, and the arts program gets new funding.
New owners on Main Street
A bakery, a bike shop and a record store are moving into the old blocks.
Also in the Brief
- 03Five soups for the first cold snap
- 04Why local hiring slowed this quarter
- 05High school football: three to watch
- 06Obituaries and remembrances
One more thing...
Meridian Live: The Transit Debate is Thursday at 7. Bring your questions.
Read the full briefYou build each issue from blocks in your own template.
Start from one of Letterhead's starter templates or your own HTML. Brand kits keep your colors and fonts consistent. On the Team plan, lock template blocks so editors can change the parts you choose.
The Morning Brief
Five things to know before your first coffee
Good morning. The council passed the transit plan after midnight, the school board's budget is out, and a cold front arrives by the weekend. Here's what matters today.
Transit plan passes
Council approved four new bus lines 6–3 after months of debate.
School budget released
Class sizes hold steady, and the arts program gets new funding.
New owners on Main Street
A bakery, a bike shop and a record store are moving into the old blocks.
Also in the Brief
- 03Five soups for the first cold snap
- 04Why local hiring slowed this quarter
- 05High school football: three to watch
- 06Obituaries and remembrances
One more thing...
Meridian Live: The Transit Debate is Thursday at 7. Bring your questions.
Read the full briefFive soups and the week's best reads
The heat came on this week. Our food editor picked five soups, and our editors picked the stories worth your Saturday.
Five soups for the first cold snap
From quick to all-afternoon.
Three storefronts reopen on Main Street
A bakery, a bike shop and a record store.
The new bus lines, in one map
Where the four routes run and when they start.
“We planned the routes for 2040. The riders showed up this year.”
— Transit director Lena Ortiz, on the vote
The week in numbers
Photos of the week
The Long Read
Route 9, 5:42 AM
The last night bus on Route 9
by Dana Whitfield
Senior writer · 18 min read
For twenty-two years, Ray Delgado has driven the last bus out of downtown. The route was supposed to be cut in 2019. He never stopped driving it.
“The city changes every year. The 5:42 still leaves on time.”
Who rides a bus at five in the morning? We spent a season of night shifts finding out.
PART II
The winter schedule
In January the first run leaves in the dark and comes back in the dark. For eleven weeks, the only light on Route 9 is the one over the fare box.
Continue readingThe editor has the blocks a newsletter needs.
Polls and quizzes, YouTube, audio, social links and sharing, custom HTML, and an AI Text block that writes in your brand voice are all in the block library.
One contact list shows how engaged every reader is.
A reader on three newsletters is one contact. For each newsletter, you see what share of its readers are Loyalists, New & Engaged, Casual, Fading or Ghosts, so you can tell which lists are healthy and which need help.
| Channel | Subscribers | Net Growth | Loyalists | New & Engaged | Casual | Fading | Ghosts | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Morning BriefMeridian News | 48,210 | +1,240 | 38% ↑ | 12% | 27% – | 14% ↓ | 9% ↓ | Healthy |
| Weekend ReadsMeridian News | 21,960 | +610 | 31% ↑ | 15% | 29% – | 15% – | 10% ↓ | Healthy |
| City Hall WeeklyMeridian News | 12,480 | +385 | 34% – | 9% | 30% ↑ | 16% ↓ | 11% – | Stable |
| Food & DrinkMeridian News | 9,870 | +142 | 26% – | 11% | 33% – | 18% ↑ | 12% ↑ | Stable |
Readers can sign up for one newsletter or several.
A signup page can offer one newsletter, a group of them or all of them, and the preferences page lets readers change what they get without unsubscribing from everything.
Pages
Every signup and embed page hosted on Letterhead for your workspace.
Every Meridian newsletter
The Morning Brief signup
Workflows and recurring emails send on their own.
A recurring email can go out every weekday morning without anyone pressing send. On the Team plan, a workflow can send a welcome the moment someone subscribes, or start on other things readers do, like clicking a link or getting a tag.
Automations
Set up emails and workflows that send based on a schedule or audience criteria.
Schedule emails on a daily or weekly schedule.
Automation
Create automated workflows that trigger actions based on subscriber behavior.
All Automations
| Title | Type | Frequency | Next send | Active |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Morning Brief | Recurring | SMTWTFSEvery week - Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri | November 3, 2026 6:00 am | |
| Welcome series | New subscriber | When an audience member subscribes. | ||
| Thank regulars | Email opened | When a subscriber opens between 3 and 5 of the last 5 published emails. | ||
Letterhead checks every email before you schedule it.
It lists what's missing and checks accessibility, links, bounce risk and email weight, so problems get caught before your readers see them.
Needs You
- Add a subject line
- Add preview text
- Pick a send time
- Choose an audience
Checked For You1 for review
- AccessibilityNo issues
- Bounce RiskElevated
- Email Weight~62KB
- LinksNo issues
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Test subject lines, and get a suggestion when you're stuck.
Send two subject lines to part of your list and the better one to the rest. The sparkle in each field suggests a subject line or preview text for the issue you're building.
In the Inbox
Penpal helps with the writing and the numbers.
Ask the assistant built into Letterhead to draft copy, suggest subject lines or explain how your last send did.
Give me three subject lines for Thursday's Morning Brief.
Here are three:
- The transit plan passed. Here's what changes.
- Your school budget, explained
- Five soups for the first cold snap
Reports put your newsletters side by side.
Compare opens, clicks and trends across your newsletters, download a CSV or PDF, and schedule reports to run on their own.
Dashboard
See how your newsletters are performing at a glance.
Sent
184,320
+6.1%from previous 30 days
Open Rate
42.3%
+1.8%from previous 30 days
Clicks
12,480
+4.2%from previous 30 days
Click-to-Open Rate
16.0%
-0.4%from previous 30 days
All Channels
| Channel | Opens | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| The Morning Brief | 20,393+12% | |
| Weekend Reads | 9,882+7% | |
| City Hall Weekly | 5,416+3% | |
| Food & Drink | 3,751-2% |
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Write in Google Docs, and it comes in looking like your newsletter.
Add a Google Docs block, pick the doc from your Drive, and it arrives as newsletter blocks in your template's styles. Links in the doc become curation blocks, with each story's headline and thumbnail filled in.
If your team drafts, edits and signs off in Google Docs, that's where the work can stay until the issue is ready.
Google Docs
We imported 6 new blocks from your Google Doc. Reorder them alongside the newsletter's existing blocks before saving.
Your website fills a shared content library.
With our WordPress plugin on, every article you publish lands in the library. RSS and our API bring in the rest, and a Curation block drops stories into any newsletter.
Curations
Pull in content from RSS feeds, APIs, and your browser, then organize it with tags and custom fields to share across your newsletters.
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Council approves the new transit plan after a late-night vote
The plan adds four bus lines and a downtown circulator.
by Ana Ruiz · Published at: Oct 28, 2026
meridiannews.com
Downtown employers are hiring again
Restaurants and retail lead a fall rebound in job postings.
by Sam Teller · Published at: Oct 28, 2026
A late vote, and a busy week downtown
The council stayed past midnight to pass the transit plan, and downtown hiring is picking back up. Here's what happened at City Hall this week.
Council approves the new transit plan after a late-night vote
The plan adds four bus lines and a downtown circulator.
Downtown employers are hiring again
Restaurants and retail lead a fall rebound in job postings.
Three storefronts reopen on Main Street
A bakery, a bike shop and a record store.
“We planned the routes for 2040. The riders showed up this year.”
— Transit director Lena Ortiz, on the vote
The week in numbers
Photos of the week
Every newsletter lives in one workspace.
The home page shows which newsletters need attention and which are growing fastest, so you know where to start before you open a report. Read how teams run several newsletters
Good morning, Jess
5 of 5 channels healthy · 22 sends this month
Portfolio Health
All healthy or stable
- Healthy 3
- Stable 2
Top Performers
By net subscriber growth, last 30 days
- 1The Morning BriefMeridian News+1,240
- 2Weekend ReadsMeridian News+610
- 3City Hall WeeklyMeridian News+385
- 4Food & DrinkMeridian News+142
Each newsletter can have its own goals.
Give The Morning Brief a target for active readers and Weekend Reads one for monthly growth, and see at a glance which is on track.
Goals
1 of 2 on track
Add another goal
Reach 200K active readersOne calendar holds every promotion slot.
On the Team plan, see every open promotion slot across your newsletters for the week, then fill it with a sponsor or a house ad.
Monday
Oct 26, 2026
Fall Membership Drive
Meridian News
Active
Small Business Month
Riverside Bank
Active
Tuesday
Oct 27, 2026
Fall Membership Drive
Meridian News
Active
Holiday Market Guide
Downtown Alliance
Draft
Wednesday
Oct 28, 2026
Fall Membership Drive
Meridian News
Active
Small Business Month
Riverside Bank
Active
Each person sees the newsletters they work on.
Joe can edit The Morning Brief without touching Prep Sports, while Suzanna, a Company Administrator, can see every newsletter and share templates and stories across them.
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Permissions
Create and manage emails for selected channels.
Channels
Letterhead connects to the tools you already use.
Slack, HubSpot, Salesforce, Stripe, Shopify and OptinMonster connect from Settings, and the API covers the rest. Some of these integrations are in early access.
Browse every integration, including the apps that connect through Zapier
Integrations
Connect and manage the tools and services that work alongside your newsletters.
Slack
Connect your Slack workspace to receive notifications
HubSpot
Connect HubSpot so your audience and engagement stay in sync with your CRM.
Salesforce
Connect Salesforce so your audience and engagement stay in sync with your CRM.
Stripe
Connect your Stripe account to see what your readers buy.
Shopify
Connect your Shopify store to see what your readers buy.
OptinMonster
Capture leads from OptinMonster opt-in forms straight into your audience.