🔶 #57: "How many subscribers did you call this week?"

Hello, and welcome back to the News Alchemists newsletter!

And a special first welcome to new subscribers from... (long list today) Recorder, AJOR, Dialogue Earth, Project Syndicate, Splice, Centrul FILIA, Thomson Reuters Foundation, Global South World, Maldita, Main-Post, JournalismUK, Translator, IMS, Ouest Médialab, New Eastern Europe, Planet Detroit... and all of you brave souls working independently.

Two weeks ago, I told you I was preparing an article to reflect on my first year writing a weekly newsletter. This is how it went, multiple times:

Many drafts later, I finally did it:

🔶 7 things I learned from writing a weekly newsletter for one year

For a little over one year, I’ve been writing the News Alchemists newsletter, a curation of links to make you think and give you hope about reimagining journalism in a people-centric direction. It’s been one of the most rewarding experiences of my career. In this post, I share 7 things

News AlchemistsMattia Peretti

In the article, I share seven things (of course they are seven) that I learned from writing an independent newsletter every week for one year. Like: three things that bring in new subscribers more than anything else; and why numbers lie all the time.

It doesn't answer all the questions I received from readers on the topic, but I plan to make time to write more reflections like this one soon. For now, I hope you'll find this interesting.

I know I say it often, but today more than ever: I'd love to read your comments, and your questions, and your own experiences, and anything else.

Just hit that reply button. I always reply back.

And after two consecutive editions without them (for the first time ever 😱), it's finally time for the links 📚

See you next week. Same place, same time 👋