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Hi there,   it’s Mattia again. In the last edition of our Events newsletter, I told you about the News Impact Summit we are organising in Paris on Powering Journalism with Design.   The event is taking place next Monday, 25 June, and we are really excited. It’s the first edition of 2018 and it focuses on a topic that we are passionate about: the design methods and tools that modern newsrooms can adopt to foster and facilitate innovation. If you want to join us (it’s free!) you have just a few days left to sign up.   This newsletter is not just about the next summit though. Today we want to bring you behind the News Impact scenes.   I’m part of the News Impact team since 2016 and I’ve been leading it for about one year now. Believe it or not - sometimes I can’t - during these two years, we have organised 15 Summits (!) across Europe and the Middle East.   But what are the News Impact Summits? Free-to-join events organised in collaboration with the Google News Initiative that bring together international media experts with local news communities to focus on how new technology, tools and methods can change the way journalists work in the newsroom. Our goal is to provide inspiration, hands-on learnings, and opportunities for collaboration.   Today, News Impact is not only a series of events anymore but the Summits are still the flagship programmes and we always think of how we can improve them. If you have already joined one or more of our events, you know that at the end of the day we ask you to leave us your feedback. These comments by the attendees have been guiding the developments of our events from day one, allowing us not only to improve the Summits but also to recognise the thirst for more training and networking opportunities: a need we’ve decided to address last year with the creation of the News Impact Academy.   A lot has changed since this journey started with a pilot event in Vienna in 2014 but not our mission. We want to explore new creative solutions that could ensure a sustainable future for journalism, and we need you to be part of this journey.   Coming up   Next Monday we’ll be in Paris as we said. We hope you will join us there but don’t worry if you won’t. You can follow the day on Twitter via #NISPAR and we’ll share a round-up with the key takeaways on our Medium publication soon after that.   Two more Summits will then take place after summer. We will visit Cardiff in October and Berlin in November. In the next newsletter, we will announce the topics of the two events.   I’m adding a reading list below if you are curious to know more about News Impact and we’d love to hear from you so don’t hesitate to reply to this email directly.   We are happy to discuss how your newsroom can benefit from joining our events and we are always open to explore new collaborations and listen to your ideas to make our events more interesting, meaningful and inspiring.   Cheers, Mattia   News Impact reading list   What we learned from News Impact in 2017 Why bridge roles are essential to a newsroom’s evolution​ Innovation needs a network to thrive​ Design in journalism: beyond the buzzwords​ Meet the first-ever News Impact Network cohort​ Closing the gap between journalists and communities​ What happens when you apply a design mindset in the newsroom     © 2018 European Journalism Centre | Oranjeplein 106 | 6224KV Maastricht | The Netherlands     This email was sent to politikimx@gmail.com