🔶 #42: "Models for sustainability. Proven tactics, strategies... and an aspiration"

Hello and welcome back to the News Alchemists newsletter!

And a special welcome to new subscribers from Faktograf, The Ilkley Journal, Le Télégramme, The Globe and Mail, Ghost, Change.org, Contribly, WAN-IFRA, the University of Wyoming, Watch Medier, Antwerp University, and all of you brave souls working independently.

Whether you found your way here through the recommendation of JournalismUK (Thanks again, Jacob!), via my love letter to Ghost and fellow Ghosters, or thanks to a reader who forwarded you last week's newsletter to help me celebrate my birthday (🫶), I hope you will like it around here.

I didn't think it was possible but I've probably spent even more time than usual on LinkedIn lately (for reasons that may or may not include an unhealthy competition with some friends over Zip and Queens). This had two main consequences:

First, a new bout of FOMO for all the cool events and conferences I'm missing out on this autumn: the IPI Congress in Vienna, the NPA Summit in Chicago, the upcoming Splice Beta in Chiang Mai that just announced its programme with sessions like: "How we’re rebuilding local media through trust and connection" and "Your reporting is nothing without impact. This is how you stand up for a community through journalism" 🤩.

Secondly, I found so much hope and inspiration in posts by people in my network that all seven links today are LinkedIn posts that I didn't want you to miss.

Speaking about events: I'll be in Utrecht at the end of the month to give a talk at an event organised by SVDJ, the Dutch Journalism Fund. To my many Dutch-based readers: let me know if you'll be there! 🇳🇱

And: I've started thinking of proposals to submit for the 2026 International Journalism Festival in Perugia. Are you working on a proposal too? Should we collaborate? I'd love to see as many sessions about audiences, about impact, about creating value for people, about innovative approaches to fostering engagement and connection making into the programme. Let me know.

Alright, it's time for the links. See you next week!