About Andrew

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 previously worked as the newsletter editor at The Daily Dot, where he designed, curated, authored, and 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. During his time as editor, he designed a welcome series, win-back flow, and re-engagement campaign. He previously was the deputy tech editor at the site. One testimonial called it “the morning newspaper of the internet.”

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.

Andrew Wyrich media experience

His work has appeared in The Daily Dot, The Record and NorthJersey.com, USA Today, The Watershed Post, The Asbury Park Press, The Poughkeepsie Journal, The Daily Record, The New Paltz Oracle, The Legislative Gazette, The Herald News, The Suburban News, various Patch.com sites, MetsMerizedOnline.com, and dozens of other websites and newspapers across the country. He has also appeared on-camera for several news organizations.

A series of stories he co-authored about transgender youth in New Jersey won a Society of the Silurians medallion as part of the organization’s 2016 awards. In 2023, the web_crawlr newsletter was recognized as an honoree for the Email Newsletters (Entertainment & Culture) category for the 27th Annual Webby Awards. He was also a lead reporter on an investigative piece that was recognized by the Investigative Reporters & Editors (IRE) as a national finalist in the student category for their annual awards. Andrew also has experience breaking major MLB news.

Andrew graduated from the State University of New York at New Paltz with a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism. While at SUNY New Paltz he served as the Editor-In-Chief of “The New Paltz Oracle,” a national award-winning student-run newspaper at the university, for a year-and-a-half. He also held other roles, including Sports Editor and Social Media Editor.

When he is not furiously checking his e-mail or tweeting, Andrew spends his time burying his nose into a book and obsessing about baseball.