🔶 #68: Your impact questions answered
Hello, and welcome back to the News Alchemists newsletter!
And a first welcome to new subscribers from Rádio Novelo, Northwestern University, the International Press Institute (IPI), Porvir, Internews, and all of you brave souls working independently.
I'm just back from my first visit to Rio de Janeiro, where I attended the 3i Festival organised by Ajor, the Brazilian association of digital journalism.
(If you're wondering, the three 'i's are: innovative, inspiring, and independent.)
The programme was dense: 10 panels, 20 workshops, 4 interviews, 1 hackathon, and at least a dozen other sessions over three days.
I learned about innovative projects and met inspiring people from the Brazilian and Latin American independent journalism scene. Today's newsletter is about them.
But that's not it. This email also includes:
- The announcement of a meet-up I'm co-hosting on 1 July with the Impact Network – and that I hope you'll want to join;
- And the usual LinkedIn Corner, which I hijacked to share something I posted last week that got more comments than anything else I posted on LinkedIn over the last two years. If the post had a title, it would be: Anything but Substack.
One last thing before we dive in: a big Thank You 🫶 to the five beautiful souls who made a donation to help me cover the growing costs of running this newsletter – which increased by quite a bit now that we are over 1,000, as I explained last week.
Their donations already covered 55% of the additional costs. If you want to help get that number closer to 100%, you can do it here. Thank you.
Ok, let's go. 📚
P.S.: Your usual reminder that you can shape the direction of this newsletter with a single click: scroll to the end and give me a thumbs-up or thumbs-down if you liked this edition (or not) – or add a comment to share your thoughts.
Of course, this is an email, so you can always just click 'Reply'. I love it when you do it.
Brazilian and Latin American independent newsrooms with interesting stories to share
If the 3i Festival was on Netflix, these panels would have been four episodes of the same show: