🔶 #11: "We must embrace the next generation of news consumers and creators"

Hello and welcome to another edition of the News Alchemists newsletter!

My name is Mattia and, according to the Future Today Strategy Group (FTSG), I am one of twelve pioneers and power players at the forefront of development and transformation in the News & Information industry. #humblebrag 😬

The reason FTSG states for including me in such a prestigious list is "for founding News Alchemists, a project aiming to redefine journalism around audience needs and financial sustainability." Seems like you're part of something special by reading this newsletter! This recognition obviously made me very happy, especially because this project was always meant to be 'us' more than 'me'.

After all, News Alchemists started as a community: a group of people who came together under the original purpose of articulating a vision for change for the journalism industry, and advocating for it, in order to make journalism more user-centric, and more equitable and sustainable as a result. I like to think of them as the founding members of this project.

I've already featured the work and the words of some of them in this newsletter: Sannuta Raghu in #5, Agnes Stenbom and Shirish Kulkarni in #6, Rishad Patel in #8. In this edition, I want to introduce you to seven more founding members of News Alchemists. Seven more people who give me hope every day and help me believe that we can redefine journalism and heal the broken relationship between our industry and the people we aim to serve.

Onto today's links: