Dear Hiring Manager,
I have never run an e-mail campaign, but I have learned how to use MailChimp. If you go to my profile you can see an example Template Mock Up that I just created in MailChimp of what I'd envision for a newsletter template.
I know the picture you posted had all text and many more links, but when I was studying responsive e-mail design I did read many designers opinions say that actually having too much content would be a bad thing and you're less likely to generate more site visits since people won't want to have to look through the whole e-mail. The best thing to do would be to show them content that they'd want to see or in this case show them at most the top 5 stories on the site.
Please message me if you have any questions and I hope to be hearing from you soon.
Regards,
Sara