As much as we savvy, smart, sexy collegiettes™ try to stay up-to-date on the latest news (from international events to the latest trends and celeb gossip), having to sift through a monument of information every day is annoying, tedious and way too time-consuming.
Charlie Szold, creator of College Daybreak, has combined his news knowledge and college student know-how into a daily (M-F) newsletter with the “news you need to know and nothing more.” College Daybreak is sent out over an email listserv every morning with condensed news in an “easily read, easily digestible format … Ideally, people should be able to read the Daybreak in five minutes and have a pretty darned good idea about what’s going on in the world,” Szold said.
The featured headlines are “chosen carefully for their actual importance as well as their cultural importance,” Szold said. “I want people who read the Daybreak to be prepared for their day. I want them to be able to say ‘oh, yes, I heard that’ when someone brings up a news story.”
The Daybreak was created for busy college students who might not be reading newspapers regularly–“It’s meant as an entry point for people who are interested in news but not interested enough to spend hours trying to find all the day’s most important info. My hope is that as they read the Daybreak and become more interested in news, they will start clicking through to more stories,” said Szold.
Szold, a senior journalism student at American University in Washington, D.C. is the editor-in-chief of his school newspaper, The Eagle, and works on a contract basis for USA TODAY’s business development department.
Today’s Daybreak includes quick facts about the latest updates on the disaster in Japan, a bus crash on a route from Connecticut to NYC (with 14 fatalities), what Israel is up to, what President Obama’s newest plans are and more, including the weekend’s top movies.
To sign up for the College Daybreak newsletters, visit the website–it’s totally free! You can also follow the Daybreak on Twitter (@CollegeDaybreak) and “like” it on Facebook.
Logo courtesy of Charlie Szold.