Andrew Wyrich is an award-winning newsletter editor and journalist with experience launching successful newsletters and reporting on technology, breaking news, politics, sports, trending news, investigative issues and more for national websites and newspapers.

He is currently at Yahoo News, where he works on The Yodel newsletter, homepage curation, and strategy.

Andrew was also the newsletter editor at The Daily Dot, where he published the web_crawlr newsletter. During his time as editor, open rates jumped from single digits to over 40%+.

He also launched and designed numerous exclusive columns for engaged subscribers, which made up 70% of the active list. One testimonial from a reader called it “the morning newspaper of the internet.” Andrew also spearheaded the creation of a welcome series, win-back flow, and re-engagement campaign. He previously was the deputy tech editor at the site.

Andrew runs a weekly Mets newsletter called Almost A Met, where he does a deep dive on players that were almost members of the New York Mets. For the newsletter, Andrew has appeared on podcasts, interviewed members of the Mets community online, and consistently gets open rates above 50%. You can subscribe to that newsletter here.

Over the past twelve years, he’s worked in almost every part of journalism. Besides spearheading successful newsletters, he’s reported on national tech policy, net neutrality, national politics, internet culture, sports (including the 2015 Mets postseason run), conflicts of interest among local officials, social media trends, local news and more.

In addition to working at the Daily Dot, he was a staff writer at a daily newspaper and also worked for small news startups.

Most recently, he worked on creating a passionate and dedicated audience in a newsletter. Want to chat more about it? Connect with him below.

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