Run a local newsletter with an AI agent: it researches and drafts a themed issue three times a week, like local news, a weekend planner and food, and saves it as a draft you read and send yourself: AI agent prompt

A local newsletter is a lot of research for one person. On Oct 28, 2026 Justin Saint described on X how his AI agent puts together his free Tampa Bay newsletter, The Tampa Scoop, three times a week, each day with its own theme: local news on Tuesday, a weekend planner on Thursday and food on Saturday. The agent researches, drafts each section and saves a draft in beehiiv, but it never sends: he reads the draft and sends it himself. The prompt below sets up the same weekly plan and draft checklist for your own town or niche.

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Help me run a local newsletter with an AI agent that drafts and never sends. My area or niche: [city or topic]. Readers: [who they are]. Newsletter tool: [e.g. beehiiv, Substack, Kit]. Issues per week: [e.g. 3]. 1) Propose a weekly plan with one theme per issue (e.g. local news, weekend things to do, food), the send day for each, and 4 to 6 standing sections per theme. 2) For each theme, list the kinds of sources to check (official city and event pages, local news sites, venue calendars) and the rules: link every item to its original source, include dates, times and prices only when the source states them, and skip anything older than [X days]. 3) Write the instruction I'll give the agent for each issue: research, draft each section in my voice [describe it], add a subject line and preview text, and save it as a draft only, never schedule or send. 4) Give me a 5-minute review checklist to use before I send: facts and dates match the source, links work, nothing is outdated or duplicated, tone fits. Keep it simple and don't connect to or change any of my accounts.
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