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We use newsletter information to deliver Good News IRL, understand which signup source worked, personalize coverage, operate the founding-reader referral program, and improve the publication. Story-tip information is used only to evaluate, report, and follow up on potential coverage. Contact messages are used to answer or act on the request you submit.

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