🔶 #52: "Better engagement is about better habits, not more creative ideas."
Welcome back to the News Alchemists newsletter!
Hard to believe that one month is almost gone already in 2026, but here we are: just a few more days and the longest month of the year will be over. (Is it just me thinking that January always feels veeery long?)
This means that this edition is the last one in which I allow myself to include a couple of reflections on 2025 and predictions for 2026. Pinky promise.
I'm really pleased with today's seven links, as they cover many of the popular topics that we explore together in this newsletter – audience engagement (link ❶), trust and what it means (❷), impact (❸), and entrepreneurship (❺) – as well as a couple of links on beautiful visual journalism (❻ and ❼) and the profile of a news organisation that reports "from the center of the world" (❹).
I hope you like them too.
Not only they are great links, they also contribute to reaching quite a milestone...
That's right: 300 links! 303, to be precise.
A number that I thought was worth celebrating by giving all those beautiful links a more appropriate home: a dedicated page on the News Alchemists website, accessible only to you, dear readers 🎁
Mattia Peretti
And talking about new webpages: Keep reading after the seven links if you're interested in advertising your products, services, events, or expertise in this newsletter.
It's links time 📚 See you next week!