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Clara Nafría & Ismael Nafría
March 14, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 9 minutes
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IQAir offers a worldwide interactive map on the air quality we breathe
The 18 finalist newsletters for the Inbox Awards
Trending: the stories that perform best among The New York Times users
IQAir offers a worldwide interactive map on the air quality we breathe
The Swiss company IQAir has just published the seventh edition of its annual World Air Quality Report on the quality of the air we breathe worldwide, which shows "alarming trends" about the most polluted areas of the world in 2024.
In fact, this report reveals that only 17% of the world's cities comply with the World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines on air pollution.
On the report's website, the air conditions of thousands of points on the planet can be consulted on an interactive map. In addition, searches can be performed for specific cities.
IQAir has more than 40,000 weather stations distributed across 138 countries. This allows them to provide current information and forecasts of air conditions in thousands of locations around the planet, through a search engine located on the website's homepage.
Some data from this year's report:
Only seven countries met the guidelines set by the WHO: Australia, Bahamas, Barbados, Estonia, Grenada, Iceland, and New Zealand.
The five most polluted countries were Chad, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and India.
In the United States, Los Angeles (California) was the large city with the worst air quality, while Seattle (Washington) was the one with the cleanest air.
These are images of some of the interactive visual services offered by IQAir on its website:
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Newsletter expert Dan Oshinsky has recently published the list of 18 finalist newsletters in the first edition of the Inbox Awards and has asked readers to vote for their favorites in the six categories of these awards.
These are the nominated newsletters, described in depth in the article published in Inbox Collective:
Innovation in Content
Brooklyn Museum: Ms. Lonely Arts: an original advice column in newsletter form, offered by a museum.
Forget-Me-Not Journal: newsletter in French and English that provides support to people who have grown up in a cult environment.
Help Scout: The Supportive Weekly: newsletter aimed at professionals who want to provide exceptional customer service.
The Wall Street Journal: From the WSJ Archives: 8 Epic Start-up Failures: limited series of eight installments with content from the WSJ archives about the biggest startup failures in Silicon Valley history.
Innovation in Design
Email Love: a newsletter about design and content ideas for email marketing that has played with personal greetings to its subscribers.
The Republic: This Week: a newsletter that turns its designs into art.
Strategy Breakdowns: In three minutes, newsletter that analyzes the strategy and growth formulas of the world's largest companies.
Innovation in Engagement
Dense Discovery: recommendation of links, books and other interesting projects and an active community of users who share.
Try & Reply: a newsletter that experiments with newsletters and shares results and lessons learned.
Wired: AI Unlocked: 10-part series offered by Wired magazine with tips on how to take advantage of generative AI tools.
Innovation in Growth
Apartment Therapy y The Kitchn: daily newsletters with practical tips and guides about home and kitchen.
Financial Times: White House Watch: after the success of their newsletter on the 2024 US presidential election campaign, the FT has continued it but focusing on monitoring White House political activity.
The New Republic: reduced and free version, offered on Substack, of The New Republic's paid newsletter.
Innovation in Revenue
The Assist: free newsletter aimed at professional women to help them be better at their jobs. They have worked very well on the welcome process with value offers for people who subscribe.
TextHacks: German newsletter offering writing tips. Sells customized versions for companies.
Innovation in Technology
Mailmodo: Idealetter: monthly newsletter with ideas and strategies to improve email campaigns.
Only In Your State: recommendations on travel and the best things to do and see in each US state, with automated personalization.
Kara’s Three Things: newsletter selected in this category for its creation process from Google Docs.
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Trending: the stories that perform best among The New York Times users
Many digital media outlets offer lists of the most read articles by their users. Typically, they do this with a simple list of content that has accumulated the most clicks during a certain period.
However, the newspaper The New York Times dedicates an entire section to highlighting the content that performs best on its website. This is Trending, an interesting space that allows you to see, in real time, the content that is capturing the most attention from users.
It's not just about the most read content, which is permanently updated, but also the most viewed videos, the recipes with the most clicks, the articles that have been most shared by email, the content that generates the most attention on Facebook, or the topics from the last week that editors consider worth reviewing, among other options.
You could say that Trending is a home page of the NYT created automatically by the newspaper's users, and updated permanently.
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