🔶 #16: "I'm never going to trust your news organization"
Hello and welcome back to the News Alchemists newsletter!
Standard service resumes today after a special edition last week. I'm writing this from a cafe in my Italian hometown, which for some reason feels quite fitting because today this newsletter has not one but two milestones to celebrate.
(A purely imaginary prize goes out to anyone who has ever heard of my hometown and replies to this email telling me how in the world that happened.)
🏆 First milestone: This is the 10th email I'm sending, and it just feels so good to be consistent in doing something on a weekly basis for long enough to reach double digits – all while enjoying doing it as much as I am! A special shout-out if you've been here from the beginning: you're awesome.
🏆 The second milestone benefits from the six editions that I shared on LinkedIn while I was testing the appetite for this newsletter (example). The result: with the seven you're about to read, I've now shared more than 100 links!
And wouldn't it be useful to be able to browse all the links together in the same place? That's what I thought at least, so here they are. A little present for you to celebrate together today's milestones.
To me, this table has already proven useful time and again, because it helps me to keep track of things like: striking the right balance between hopeful and thought-provoking content; between the four ingredients of hope I mentioned in #10; and other important things such as not quoting too often the same people, or not highlighting only organisations from certain parts of the world but not others.
But I created this table first and foremost because I thought it might be useful to you. So the questions are two:
- Is it? As in, do you actually find it useful?
- Or, could it be useful if... [insert here your suggestion]?
Let me know.
Alright, let's go. Here are today's links 📚