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In the fall of 2016, former journalist Erin Ruberry set out to create In Better News, a newsletter that highlights acts of kindness from Americans across the country. Her own optimism is infectious. Erin built an online space focussed on the Good joins Sanity to talk about her mission to make the internet a happier place (and to talk about the one and only Dolly Parton!).

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“There are so many good people in the world and it is easy to lose sight of that if you are just looking at the headlines out there.”

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Episode Notes:

• Subscribe to In Better News here.

• Learn about Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library here.

• The Real Roots of American Rage, The Atlantic, January/February 2019

• Hundreds brave the cold to honor Vietnam veteran who died with few known family members, Omaha World Herald, 11/228/18