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Legal requirements for email newsletters

Don’t send an email newsletter without these details.

This is a must-read — especially for a news organization that wants to be hyper-compliant and not face criticism or worse for not meeting legal requirements. For those who wouldn’t know otherwise, these requirements are not obvious. Clarifying that the email is not an advertisement and making sure people can unsubscribe, for example, are must-know facts for newsletter authors.