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name: newsletter-source-research
description: Use when the user asks to find, clean, verify, organize, or curate sources, links, ideas, expert quotes, product updates, industry news, trend signals, or research queues for a newsletter issue.
---

# Newsletter Source Research

Find and organize source material for a newsletter issue.

## Core Rule

Prepare source material that an issue builder can use safely. Keep verified facts, useful context, weak claims, and excluded items separate.

## Source Types

Use the user's known source list first. Add relevant sources from:

- Official company, product, organization, or event pages
- Industry publications, blogs, newsletters, podcasts, and reports
- Expert posts, interviews, talks, filings, papers, or changelogs
- Community forums, Reddit, LinkedIn, X, Discord, Slack, or niche groups when appropriate
- Search, archives, trend tools, analytics exports, and prior issues
- Local calendars and local sources when the newsletter is city/community focused

## Workflow

1. Confirm topic, audience, date range, source types, excluded topics, and issue angle.
2. Collect candidate sources with title, URL, author/source, date, summary, and relevance.
3. Verify primary sources for claims that will appear in the issue.
4. Remove duplicates, outdated items, weak reposts, and low-fit sources.
5. Group sources by section, angle, audience value, and confidence.
6. Identify gaps that need manual checking, expert input, or follow-up research.
7. Save or hand off the source queue for issue building.

## Output Format

Use a table with:

| Status | Source | Date | Section fit | Audience value | Claim or idea | URL | Notes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |

Then include:

- Best sources for the issue
- Backup sources
- Items needing manual verification
- Excluded items and why
- Source gaps and next checks

## Guardrails

- Prefer primary sources for factual claims.
- Do not treat social posts or reposts as verified facts without support.
- Do not invent dates, statistics, quotes, prices, or product details.
- Keep uncertain items out of final issue copy until verified.