Wine Not? Promotion Spills Into Editorial Newsletter
NPR newsletter subscribers bristle at wine club promotion email.
NPR's recent announcement of a new wine club (a bottle of "All Grapes Considered" Malbec, anyone?) garnered largely positive reaction on social media and in the press. But a decision to market the club through an NPR email newsletter that originates in the newsroom left some with a sour taste.
When listeners and readers subscribe to the "" newsletter, they do so expecting to get an email each week with links to a handful of reports from the NPR newsroom. But on Sept. 28, they instead got an email promoting the wine club, proceeds of
