🔶 #27: "Mission before monetization: Growth rooted in purpose"
Hello and welcome back to the News Alchemists newsletter!
It's with a heavy heart that I report to you that, unfortunately, clickbait works.
The second most-clicked link in last week's newsletter was the cryptic postscript about a 'very cool' non journalism-related event I attended the week prior. If that's how things work around here, I'm only gonna tell you next week what the first most-clicked link was... just kidding, it was my beloved News Alchemists Venn diagram 🧡
(Clickbait aside, The Experimental Leader event really was quite cool. Keep reading after the seven links if you want to know more about it.)
In today's seven links, we pick up the conversations from two weeks ago on reframing news avoidance (links ❶ and ❷), and on the value of bridge roles and bridge people (links ❸ and ❹).
I also share a project about community and belonging that I've had the opportunity to be involved in over the last six months (❺); an inspiring interview with one of the best people I met this year (❻); and a smart take on onboarding journeys (❼).
I hope you enjoy today's links and find some hope and inspiration in them.
A public service announcement before we say goodbye 👇
I love writing this newsletter. I spend about 15 hours a week searching for useful and (hopefully) inspiring ideas to assist with your work, and putting them together so they're easy and enjoyable to learn from.
I'm not paid to do it though, and as a freelancer that's not sustainable.
I don't want to put up a paywall. Our industry faces incredible challenges, and we need to solve them together. This newsletter should remain free, for you and for anyone else who wants to join the movement.
That's why I chose to explore the sponsorship route, looking for partners who want to support this newsletter because they share its hopeful, people-centric vision.
Can you think of a company or organisation that might want to help keep this newsletter going and free for everyone?
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See you next week! 👋