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Category: 
Overall Excellence > Email Newsletter of the Year

Title of entry: 
This Week in Washington

Issue or Publication date:
Aug. 20, 2025; Oct. 8, 2025; Dec. 10, 2025

Publication name: 
Pensions & Investments

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Pensions & Investments, a Crain Communications brand, is the international news source of money management, covering the world's largest pension funds, U.S. and international retirement plans, sovereign wealth funds, endowments and foundations. P&I writes about Wall Street's largest money managers and institutional investors around the world, including breaking news, analysis, features, enterprise reporting and more.
Pensions & Investments launched This Week in Washington in 2024, marking the publication’s first narrative newsletter in its more than 50-year history. Since then, Washington Bureau Chief Brian Croce has engaged our readers every Wednesday with the latest news and analysis out of the nation's capital. The newsletter is a departure from P&I’s news coverage in that it’s far more conversational and at times humorous. Brian’s writing style engages readers and breaks down complex topics in a digestible way. The newsletter covers a wide range of topics, each of which are important to various segments of P&I’s audience, and features original reporting and insights from key newsmakers.
Our audience thoroughly enjoys and seeks Brian's coverage. Crain in 2025 surveyed its readers about their satisfaction with dozens of company email newsletters. This Week in Washington garnered the most favorable responses in the whole company, with 85% of readers deeming it "excellent" and another 12% saying it's "good." Also, its open rate is consistently top among all P&I newsletters, routinely topping 65%.