
WTTW News Launches Weekly Urban Nature Newsletter
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WTTW News digital reporter Patty Wetli is delivering a new way to get your nature fix.
There's a reason the city's motto is "urbs in horto" or "city in a garden." Because for a city, urban nature here is bountiful. So for all of you nature lovers out there, our intrepid reporter Patty Wetli is bringing you a new way to get your nature fix.
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WTTW News Launches Weekly Urban Nature Newsletter
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There's a reason the city's motto is "urbs in horto" or "city in a garden." Because for a city, urban nature here is bountiful. So for all of you nature lovers out there, our intrepid reporter Patty Wetli is bringing you a new way to get your nature fix.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship>> There's a reason the city's motto is herbs in town or city in a garden because for city urban nature here is bountiful.
So for all of you, nature lovers out there, our intrepid reporter Patty Whatley is bringing you a new way to get your nature fix.
Petty joins us now to tell us all about this exciting adventure.
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and so you've been covering everything from obviously the piping plover is to work district politics for quite some time.
What is changing?
>> So we're giving you yet another way to get your nature coverage.
You know, people they seem to hear on Chicago tonight.
They come to our website.
We do a lot on Instagram here were coming straight to your inbox with nature coverage, nothing but nature.
Every Friday afternoon newsletter.
Lots of extra great content.
That kind of doesn't fit in any of those buckets that I just mentioned, right?
Because he previously had the column.
Of course, that was in our going.
moving and events are moving all of this on Friday.
Really we've by wanted to be like a hub.
community for all my fellow folks who find nature so fascinating and just weird and interesting and just want more of that more than I can maybe produce a digital article on, you know, short news tidbits, just some plain fun stuff like creature feature, where like, here's this weird plant or animal or weird thing about the or animal or, you know, just strange and come across and more opportunity to get some of the patties.
Amazing, And more.
The photos that I obsess of lead that we can here if we follow.
Yeah, there anything that you want viewers and readers to get from this that they maybe weren't getting before?
I mean, I think I want this to be a place that it feels like this is their tribe that, you know, we found our tribe sometimes.
>> Some of this content to there's so much out there, not just need your content content in general and things can get lost.
And here's kind of place where we pull it all together for you come straight to your inbox near.
Don't have to seek it out.
It comes to you.
But I wanted to feel like, you know, this comfortable.
Home where we can all like Duke out over mushrooms.
The other feel sad about a dead over Jake together and know that you're like with people who feel the same way about something that you love a safe space for you and your family been a turn or He said what people have to do to sign up to receive this in their inbox.
Well, some lucky folks got the first issue last week.
If you've got that, you're good to go.
Otherwise, if you want to sign up for you, go to wt tw dot com slash newsletter.
You look for urban nature.
You click.
Add here on the list.
You'll be on it.
If you click on there today, you will get this Friday's.
So all right, good job.
Patty, Congrats on the new newsletter for you tell us all about Thanks, friends and again, you
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