Newsletters

Every morning, before the agency day begins, the EPA Region 9 News Clips product is already assembled — a curated digest of coverage relevant to the region, its programs, and the communities it serves. The regional distribution list runs to more than 850 subscribers, but the product's reach extends further: EPA Headquarters personnel have subscribed on their own initiative, drawn by the editorial judgment of a clips package that selects rather than simply aggregates.

The same discipline shaped media monitoring at USACE South Pacific Division, where the audience spanned four district commands and a headquarters staff with overlapping jurisdictions. Producing the daily clips is one part of the role. Building the bench capable of sustaining it — through staff training and hands-on quality control as each edition moves up the chain — is the other.

Keeping Region 9 Informed is the bi-weekly internal newsletter that functions as editorial connective tissue for the region — surfacing the events, achievements, and external coverage that a distributed workforce of scientists, engineers, and administrators might otherwise miss. Every EPA Region 9 employee receives it.

The newsletter's reach has drawn notice at the national level. EPA Headquarters recognized the product's quality, and the Regional Administrator — who simultaneously serves Region 2 — brought the format to New York so his team could replicate it. That's the clearest measure of a communications product: when the people you report to start building something like it elsewhere.

The editorial discipline built across a decade of federal newsletter work carries directly into Between the Redwoods, the newsletter for Redwood Comics. Writing consistently for a niche, invested audience — knowing what to elevate, how to frame it, and when brevity serves better than depth — is the same skill whether the subject is environmental science or sequential art.

Between the Redwoods covers new releases, creative process, and the broader independent comics world for an audience of readers, collectors, and fellow creators. It is produced with the same editorial standards that shaped the federal publications it grew out of.