🔶 #60: This is a newsletter about money.

Hello, and welcome back to the News Alchemists newsletter!

And a first welcome to new subscribers from The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, Le Temps, Newspack, Main Post, pd digital, Mecseki Müzli, the Reuters Institute, Boston University, SteelWatch, and all of you brave souls working independently.

This is a newsletter about people-centric journalism. My stated goal is to "give you hope about reimagining journalism and its role in society".

But it's also a newsletter about money.

When I created News Alchemists – the movement that preceded the newsletter – I made it a point to present a theory built on the interconnection between people-centricity and financial sustainability.

To anyone who'd care to listen, I'd show a Venn diagram that made the obvious visible: we must focus exclusively on products and experiences that create value for people and make us money as a result.

Now that I'm transitioning from being "a consultant with a newsletter" to building a one-man business that serves the needs of its audience in multiple ways, I'm experiencing first-hand how hard it is to stay focused on the intersection of that Venn diagram, and how hard it is to... wait for it... make money.

So I dug into my burgeoning list of links that I want to share with you, and selected seven that focus on the messy, complex, often-frustrating but oddly enjoyable struggle of making money through journalism that makes a difference in people's lives.

Enjoy the links 📚 And see you next week at Scrooge McDuck's Money Bin!