How to Get Berlin News and Events in English — Every Morning, in Your Inbox

What you'll build

Here's the trick: the brief is written in the language of your prompt. Keep your instruction in English, and every morning the agent reads Tagesspiegel, RBB24 and berlin.de in German — and writes you a short memo in English. Not machine-translated headlines; a real email, composed for you, with the original outlet linked under every claim.

And I do mean writes. The agent isn't forwarding whatever matched a keyword — it searches fresh every morning, reads what happened in Berlin overnight, throws away the noise, and composes a few tight paragraphs.

You choose the mix, too. Flat-hunting? Two-thirds housing and transport, one cultural pick at the end. Here for the other Berlin? Openings and events first, Senate politics only when it hits your Kiez. A newsletter serves its whole mailing list; your prompt serves exactly one reader.

Step by step: from zero to your first edition

The whole setup takes about two minutes. And every screenshot below comes straight from the real product — nothing is mocked up.

1. Step 1 Open morningmail.ai

   Head over to morningmail.ai. You'll see a sample edition and the Compose button — that's your entry point. Nothing to install; everything runs in the browser.

   

2. Step 2 Create your free account

   Sign up with your Google account. Every new account comes with a free first edition built in — so you can send yourself a real email before paying a cent.

   

3. Step 3 Create your first template

   A template is the blueprint of your email: name, delivery time, recipients, and your content sections. Click "New template" and the builder opens with a live preview right next to the editor. Everything saves automatically — there is no save button to forget.

   

4. Step 4 Add a news section

   Click "Add section +" and pick "News topic". You'll see six starters — real, editable prompts for a city, a sports club, a company, a tech topic, a professional field, and a personal interest. Pick one, and you're thirty seconds away from a working brief.

   

5. Step 5 Make it yours: Berlin

   In the module picker, choose the "Local news" starter card and type Berlin into the highlighted field. The card rewrites its prompt live around your city, so you can read exactly what the agent will be asked every morning: skip national politics, prefer transport, housing, council decisions and openings, and always cite the local outlet.

   Then bend it toward your actual life here — it's just text. My favourite tweak is one added line: "On Fridays, include a weekend preview with three events in Neukölln or Kreuzberg, with ticket links." Templates have selectable weekday chips, so that can even become a separate Friday-only email alongside — or instead of — the daily one.

   

   The exact prompt your section starts with

   One Berlin story today you'd miss anywhere else. Skip national politics. Prefer transport, housing, council decisions, openings, and city-level policy — the things that change life for someone living in Berlin. Always cite the local outlet (e.g. Tagesspiegel, RBB) so I can read further.

6. Step 6 Set your delivery time and send yourself a test

   Almost there! Choose when the email should arrive and add your address as a recipient. Hit "Send test" — your first edition is free — and check your inbox. If something reads off, tweak the prompt and send again. Then flip the template to Active. Congratulations — you've just built your own morning brief!

   

Get more out of your brief

Write the prompt in English — that's what makes the brief English

The agent answers in the language of its instructions: English prompt in, English brief out — even though the sources are German. If you're learning German, flip it and get a daily reading exercise about your own city.

Name your Kiez, not just the city

"Berlin" is 3.9 million people's news. One added sentence — "I live in Wedding; prioritise anything affecting Wedding and Gesundbrunnen" — turns a city digest into your street's briefing. Keep one slot for city-wide Senate decisions anyway.

Make Friday a weekend-preview edition

Templates have weekday chips, so a brief doesn't have to be daily. My favourite setup: short editions Monday to Thursday, then a Friday edition that leads with three concrete weekend events and where to get tickets.

Put the weather above the news

MorningMail supports separate weather sections, and Berlin plans live and die by the sky: Tempelhofer Feld in July, a backup museum in November. One glance at the top of the same email settles it.

Share it with your flatmates or partner

Templates support multiple recipients, so one brief can land in your whole WG's inboxes — useful when the news is "our street is closed for eight weeks." You can also publish a section to the public community gallery for other Berlin expats to subscribe to.

Good sources to anchor your brief on

The agent searches the open web every morning and cites where it read things. These are the sources I'd point it at in your prompt:

• Der Tagesspiegel — Berlin's paper of record for Senate politics, housing and transport. Much of it is paywalled and all of it is German — your brief distils it into English and links the originals.
• RBB24 — The public broadcaster's news portal and the fastest reliable source for breaking Berlin news: BVG and S-Bahn disruptions, weather warnings, court decisions. Free to read, German only.
• berlin.de — The city's official portal: Bürgeramt services, public notices, construction announcements and the administration's own event calendar. Authoritative but written by bureaucrats — exactly what you want summarised for you.
• Exberliner — Berlin's long-running English-language magazine — strong on culture, food and the expat perspective. It comes out monthly; your daily brief covers the news between issues.
• The Berliner — English-language city magazine with openings, exhibitions and city-life features. Great for depth once your brief has flagged what's worth your weekend.
• Resident Advisor — The definitive listing for Berlin's club and electronic-music scene. If your prompt asks for nightlife, this is where the agent finds what's actually on — with ticket links.

Frequently asked questions

Do I need to speak German?

Honestly — no. That's the whole point of this setup: the agent reads Tagesspiegel and RBB24 in German, and your brief arrives in English because your prompt is written in English. The linked originals are usually German; your browser's translator covers the occasional deep-dive.

What does it cost?

Your first edition is completely free, no credit card required. After that, sending runs on credits: each section costs a few credits depending on its AI model tier, and credits never expire. A short daily Berlin brief costs a few credits per morning; a Friday-only edition even less.

Can I get only weekend tips instead of daily news?

Yes — templates have selectable weekday chips. Schedule the email for Fridays only and point the prompt at a weekend preview: three events, ticket links, one rainy-day backup. Daily and weekly work equally well.

How is this different from an expat newsletter?

I read Exberliner too — but a newsletter is one editor's selection for thousands of readers. Your brief is written for exactly one: the agent searches fresh every morning and follows your instruction — your Kiez, your mix of housing versus events, your language. When your interests change, you edit a sentence, not your subscriptions.

Can I change what the brief covers later?

Any time — the prompt stays yours. Too heavy on Senate politics? Tell it to lead with openings. Missed a transport story that wrecked your commute? Add "always include BVG and S-Bahn changes affecting Neukölln." The agent re-reads its instructions every morning, so corrections apply from the next edition.