Newsletter Automation

Newsletter Automation is the build side of the Project’s monthly AI Updates newsletter. The newsletter itself has gone out monthly to the Penn Carey Law community since February 2025; this project is the pipeline that produces it and the work of giving it a public home — automated collection of candidate items through the month, an editorial workflow that surfaces what’s worth including, and Substack as the distribution layer. Until that public archive ships, past issues aren’t yet browsable on this site.

The point is to get the editorial pass focused on selecting and writing, not hunting for material.

What we’re doing

• Run the collection pipeline: scrape, watch, and tag candidate items across the month from a curated source list — model releases, court incidents, regulatory developments, classroom experiments, tool reviews.
• Build the editorial workflow: triage interface, drafting templates, fact-check pass, ready-to-publish hand-off.
• Stand up the Substack and migrate the back catalog. Archive on this site stays as the canonical record.

Why this matters

The newsletter is the Project’s most public, regular touch point with the legal-education community. Automating the collection and editorial scaffolding means the writing gets the attention it deserves and the cadence stays reliable — both of which matter more than any individual issue.

Status

Active. The newsletter itself is already monthly; the public archive and Substack migration are in progress — that’s why the site’s Newsletter link is still marked “coming soon.” Collection pipeline being formalized.