{
  "id": "newsletter.communication",
  "term": "newsletter",
  "sense": "communication",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 10,
  "arena": "communication",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a regular email sent to a list containing news or other material",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "email.digital",
      "list.ordered",
      "news.information",
      "content.material",
      "regular.frequency",
      "send.communication"
    ],
    "interaction": "email, list, news, content, regularity, and sending together form a periodic distribution of informational material to a structured group",
    "novel_properties": [
      "periodic delivery",
      "curated content distribution",
      "asymmetric broadcast"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The New York Times sends its 'Morning Briefing' to millions daily, summarizing top news stories.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory emails monthly updates about Mars rover operations to subscribers.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Linux Kernel Mailing List distributes patches and announcements to developers every week.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "message.information",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": "newsletters are messages"
    },
    {
      "id": "subscribe.service",
      "type": "enables",
      "note": "newsletters enable subscription"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "newsletter",
    "newsletters"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "factual",
      "note": "original definition was incomplete and omitted constitutive concepts like regularity and sending; updated to reflect full emergence from components."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-newsletter.communication"
}