If you set up groups for access of places, it works fine, but setting up the default automatic newsletters doesn't work.
Workaround 1:
Set up a fake user with an email address that points to the group.
Workaround 2:
Write a simple placebot to do this instead.
To be fair this is a reasonable solution as the placebot can be put into a place template and the format of the newsletter can
be tweaked nicely.