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Explore 60 projects in the Newsletters category of the Civic Tech Field Guide.

Newsletters that will keep you informed about news, announcements, stories, discussions, analysis, resources, and new opportunities related to civic tech.

60 projects

SovereignLab

SovereignLab is a commercial subscription intelligence-briefing service that sends AI-drafted, relevance-scored digests of public-source news across six sectors, including civic policy.

Oklahoma City, OK

Context Window

Context Window is a newsletter from The Lenfest Institute for Journalism that shares AI projects, lessons and ready-to-use tools with local news organizations across the United States.

Philadelphia
2026

Magpie Brain

Searching for Shiny Things.

Newspeak House, Bethnal Green Road, London, UK

Informational Democracy

A working group of the Max Planck Institute for Political and Social Science. Informational Democracy publishes provocations, groundings, and reflections on topics such as collective intelligence, the role of AI in democratic systems, attention as a democratic resource, and the infrastructural transformation of the public sphere.

2026

Understanding Recommenders

Understanding Recommenders is a research-driven effort to demystify recommender systems and their impact on society.

Election Science Field Notes

Election security expert Michael Alvarez's Substack.

USA

Responsible AI with Rebekah Tweed

Twice-monthly Substack on: Regulation & policy, Resources & tools, Model & product news, Societal impacts

New York City
2026

Distroid Digest

A curated newsletter of grey literature and other non-traditional sources at the intersection of technology and society.

North America

Inside AI Substack

We bring you news and insights fueled by insider voices at the cutting edge of Frontier AI—delivered straight to your inbox, every two weeks.

Berlin