🔶 #35: "Walking tours for community engagement"

Hello and welcome back to the News Alchemists newsletter!

And a first welcome to new subscribers from ProPublica, Daily Maverick, NOS, Le Figaro, La Nación, Foreign Affairs, LinkedIn, The New School, and all of you brave souls working for yourselves. You're among friends 🫂

It's a chaotic time of the year for me: just back from ten days working in Cape Town, about to take some time off between visiting family in Italy and lying flat on a beach in Croatia, and transitioning from old projects to new ones. (Do you want to be part of the "new ones"?)

September is also the time when I plan to properly go through the insights that some of you kindly shared through the reader survey – and improve this newsletter accordingly. What did you say? You have not filled in the survey yet? Really?? Not a problem, you're still on time:

To make space for all of the above (the new projects, the data analysis, and yes, mostly the beach) I'm taking some time off from writing the newsletter. I'll be back in your inbox towards the end of the month. Don't miss me too much, ok?

Enjoy the links and see you right here in a few weeks! 👋