🔶 #22: "What if the future of local journalism was more playful?"

Hello and welcome back to the News Alchemists newsletter!

And a first welcome to new subscribers from the Boston Globe, Dow Jones, the New York Times, Tactile news, La Voz del Interior, Mastercard, America Amplified, Somedia, Aaj Tak, and all of you brave mavericks working for yourselves. You're among friends 🫂

Last week, I didn't include the customary seven links to focus on one Pew Research study that explored what 'news' means to people (in the US) – TL;DR: it's complicated – and how it makes people feel – TL;DR: not good.

Were you disappointed to not find the usual seven links? Or relieved to have a week's break to maybe catch up with other readings? This is all a big experiment we're doing together, so let me know if you like it when I spice things up or if you prefer a consistent format.

Talking about experiments, a few days ago, I decided to celebrate a rather arbitrary anniversary: 100 days since I sent the first email of this newsletter. I shared some thoughts on LinkedIn about how it's been going and what I learned so far. But I'd love to know:

Not including the seven links for one week had a very practical consequence: a replenished stock of links that I cannot wait to share with you – which in turn made it incredibly hard to pick only seven for this edition. But I made my choices and I think you'll be happy with them.

Enjoy the links, and see you next week! 👋