🔶 #12: "The main problem with journalism isn't AI or digital transformation, it's its relevance gap."

Hello and welcome back to the News Alchemists newsletter!

If you are among the many people who signed up over the last week from all corners of the industry — the Daily Maverick, Schibsted, NBC News, INMA, the EBU, ICFJ, and RAI, among others — a special welcome to you. You’re among friends. 🤗

Last week I explained how News Alchemists started out as a community, and I introduced you to some of its founding members. That made me quite nostalgic, and reminded me that relaunching the community — opening it up to you and everyone else who’s reading these lines — is one of the hopes I have for this year.

I’m not ready yet (it takes time, time that I don’t have because I must prioritise projects that help me pay the bills, and blah blah blah) but let me use this moment to ask the most important question: Would you even be interested? Would you find value in an online community where you could meet and share ideas with other alchemists like you who want to make journalism more user-centric, and more equitable and sustainable as a result? And maybe even create something together?

Yes, no, ideas, questions? Reply to this email to let me know your thoughts.

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