🔶 #72: A free society requires journalists to work like scientists, not artists

Hello, and welcome back to the News Alchemists newsletter!

Back to the standard 7-links format this week – and they are especially good links, so no more words standing in the way of you enjoying them, except for one reminder:

Jazmín Acuña (co-founder of El Surti and author of Change-centric Journalism), Alessia Cerantola (strategic projects editor at OCCRP), Miriam Wells (impact and strategy editor at The Examination) and Grace Murray (senior impact producer at The Bureau of Investigative Journalism) will answer all your questions about measuring impact beyond traditional metrics, meaningful engagement, serving underrepresented audiences, and much more.

The conversation will be moderated by Eliz Mizon, communications manager at Arena for Journalism in Europe.

And without further ado... Enjoy the links, and forward them to a colleague if you want to spread the hope.

See you next week 👋

1. A free society requires journalists to work like scientists, not artists 👉 LINK

This is a fascinating piece by strategy and audience consultant 🧞Cecilia Dobbs, who asks if journalism is an art or a science. From the headline, you can guess her answer – but what's yours? Have a read and let me know.

2. FACTA’s blueprint for collaborative science journalism products 👉 LINK

🧩 FACTA is an independent Italian non-profit media that applies the scientific method to investigative and data journalism...