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====<b>LOOKING FOR NOTES OF A 2006 MEETING OF GCMC -- go [http://74.200.89.183/wiki/index.php/Citizen_media1 HERE.]</b>====<br />
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=Greylock Citizen/Media Collaborative / 2014= <br />
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====Are you disturbed that our North Berkshire region has abruptly lost its two print news media in mid-January, <i>The Transcript</i> and <i>The Advocate?</i> If so, please come to a public forum to discuss what our Berkshire community might do about it.====<br />
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<h3>JOIN US FOR A <U>FREE, PUBLIC</U>:</h3><br />
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<h2><i>Dialogue on the Information Needs of the North Berkshire Community</i></h2><br />
===The Williams Inn, Williamstown (new location)<br>Wed., Feb. 5, 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.===<br />
<big>A public, circle-round discussion, followed by light refreshments. (Discussions may continue after 8 p.m. at the Williams Inn tavern.)</big> <br />
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<h2>Who's participated?</h2><br />
*Find out who attended [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Community-roster <b>HERE.</b>]<br />
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<h2>SOME QUESTIONS WE'LL CONSIDER:</H2><br />
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*Does our local Berkshires community need an independent, local news and opinion media source, whether print media, online, or both? Can <i>The Berkshire Eagle</i> or <i>iBerkshires</i> -- or Facebook -- meet that need? <br />
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*If we do need such a source, what options exist for forming one? Suggestions: <br />
**A non-profit organization <br />
**Co-operative ownership (like a food co-op)? <br />
**A locally owned for-profit initiative or partnership (like <i>iBerkshires</i> or <i>Hill Country Observer?</i> <br />
**Print, online, or both? <br />
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*How would such an enterprise be funded? Advertising? Subscriptions? Donations? <br />
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*Who would the target audiences be?<br />
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<h2>Contacts:</h2><br />
*Tela Zasloff, jzasloff@adelphia.net<br />
*Harry Montgomery, harry_montgomery@hotmail.com <br />
*Bill Densmore, facilitator, wpdensmore@gmail.com<br />
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==PRE-CONVENING RESOURCES==<br />
[[Image:KnightReport cover2.jpg|100px|thumb|left|[http://www.knightcomm.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Informing_Communities_Sustaining_Democracy_in_the_Digital_Age.pdf DOWNLOAD PDF]]]<br />
*READING: [http://www.knightcomm.org/read-the-report-and-comment/ Informing Communities: Sustaining Democracy in the Digital Age." The Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities,] (2009) <SMALL>Report copies available for free at the Milne Public Library</small> <br />
*RECOMMENDATIONS: [http://newshare.com/greylocknews/community-knight.pdf Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy]<br />
*QUESTIONS: [http://newshare.com/greylocknews/community-healthy.pdf Are we living in an 'information healthy' community?]<br />
*LINKS: [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Community1 Readings, audio, articles and notes from 2006 and 2010 meetings in Williamstown and Bennington]</div>Bill Densmorehttps://mgpwiki.mediagiraffe.org//index.php?title=Citizen_media&diff=236933Citizen media2025-11-17T00:58:10Z<p>Bill Densmore: /* READ A BLOG STORY ABOUT THIS MEETING */</p>
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=Greylock Citizen/Media Collaborative / 2014= <br />
<small>URL for this page: http://www.greylocknews.org</small><br />
[[Image:Final-edition.jpg|450px|thumb|right|[http://www.berkshireeagle.com//northadamstranscriptfinaledition VIEW FINAL EDITION]]]<br />
====Are you disturbed that our North Berkshire region has abruptly lost its two print news media in mid-January, <i>The Transcript</i> and <i>The Advocate?</i> If so, please come to a public forum to discuss what our Berkshire community might do about it.====<br />
<br />
<h3>JOIN US FOR A <U>FREE, PUBLIC</U>:</h3><br />
<br />
<h2><i>Dialogue on the Information Needs of the North Berkshire Community</i></h2><br />
===The Williams Inn, Williamstown (new location)<br>Wed., Feb. 5, 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.===<br />
<big>A public, circle-round discussion, followed by light refreshments. (Discussions may continue after 8 p.m. at the Williams Inn tavern.)</big> <br />
<br><br />
<br />
<h2>Who's participated?</h2><br />
*Find out who attended [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Community-roster <b>HERE.</b>]<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<h2>SOME QUESTIONS WE'LL CONSIDER:</H2><br />
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*Does our local Berkshires community need an independent, local news and opinion media source, whether print media, online, or both? Can <i>The Berkshire Eagle</i> or <i>iBerkshires</i> -- or Facebook -- meet that need? <br />
<br />
*If we do need such a source, what options exist for forming one? Suggestions: <br />
**A non-profit organization <br />
**Co-operative ownership (like a food co-op)? <br />
**A locally owned for-profit initiative or partnership (like <i>iBerkshires</i> or <i>Hill Country Observer?</i> <br />
**Print, online, or both? <br />
<br />
*How would such an enterprise be funded? Advertising? Subscriptions? Donations? <br />
<br />
*Who would the target audiences be?<br />
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<h2>Contacts:</h2><br />
*Tela Zasloff, jzasloff@adelphia.net<br />
*Harry Montgomery, harry_montgomery@hotmail.com <br />
*Bill Densmore, facilitator, wpdensmore@gmail.com<br />
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==PRE-CONVENING RESOURCES==<br />
[[Image:KnightReport cover2.jpg|100px|thumb|left|[http://www.knightcomm.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Informing_Communities_Sustaining_Democracy_in_the_Digital_Age.pdf DOWNLOAD PDF]]]<br />
*READING: [http://www.knightcomm.org/read-the-report-and-comment/ Informing Communities: Sustaining Democracy in the Digital Age." The Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities,] (2009) <SMALL>Report copies available for free at the Milne Public Library</small> <br />
*RECOMMENDATIONS: [http://newshare.com/greylocknews/community-knight.pdf Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy]<br />
*QUESTIONS: [http://newshare.com/greylocknews/community-healthy.pdf Are we living in an 'information healthy' community?]<br />
*LINKS: [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Community1 Readings, audio, articles and notes from 2006 and 2010 meetings in Williamstown and Bennington]</div>Bill Densmorehttps://mgpwiki.mediagiraffe.org//index.php?title=Biblionews-Who_else_belongs_in_the_room&diff=236907Biblionews-Who else belongs in the room2019-04-06T13:33:14Z<p>Bill Densmore: /* Who else belongs in the room? */</p>
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===Cambridge, Mass. (Boston), April 6-7, 2011 at the MIT Center for Future Civic Media===<br />
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=Who else belongs in the room, and what links matter?=<br />
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<strong>When near 130 people registered for "Beyond Books," we asked each two questions: Who belongs in the room that we may not have already thought, and what information resources should we be sharing? Here are the answers they provided.</strong><br />
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==Who else belongs in the room?==<br />
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*Jay Rosen, well-known journalist and professor at New York University's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, has a unique perspective on citizen journalism and the future of media.<br />
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*There's a new movement of online news outlets that rely heavily on social media (e.g. Patch) and who may have some interesting things to add to the discussion.<br />
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*Homero Gil de Zuniga (an Assistant Professor at the School of Journalism at the University of Texas.<br />
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*Jessamyn West -- librarian blogger and advocate, http://www.librarian.net<br />
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*Boards of Directors and other governing boards; Community Foundations and other representatives from funding sources<br />
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*Technology professionals capable of advising public libraries how they can harness their unique potential to democratize networks and technologies, to engender citizen journalists by creating new media literacy for the public. The nettime mailing list and related resources.<br />
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*ILI-L Discussion List and Information Literacy Discussion List (K-20 Collaboration) through ACRL: http://lists.ala.org/sympa/lists/divisions/acrl.<br />
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*Wael Ghonim, Google employee and organizer in the very recent ""Jasmine Revolution"" in Egypt. His thoughts on the real-world applications of social media as a platform for freely available public information would provide a unique and valuable insight. <br />
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*Eric S. Raymond, vocal advocate for open source software. He makes a persuasive argument for the careful integration of open source principles into a capitalist economy, with the idea of maintaining the profit motive while facilitating innovation. Politically, he is a staunch conservative, and would provide a counterpoint to what I can only assume will be a fairly liberal set. His email address is: esr@thyrsus.com.<br />
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*Clay Shirky, associate professor at the Interactive Telecommunications Dept. of NYU, and a Distinguished Writer in Residence in the Journalism Dept. He is @cshirky on Twitter.<br />
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*Danah Boyd, zephoria@zephoria.org<br />
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*Rob Goodspeed, of DUSP, who is helping a PlanningTech conference accross campus.<br />
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*The Uptake, Cynthia Moothart, The League of Rural Voters Communications Director and a former journalist/editor for the Detroit Free Pres, St. Paul Pioneer Press, and Kansas City Star.<br />
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*Brewster Kahle, founder of The Internet Archive.<br />
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*Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia <br />
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*State Library Consortia and Knowledge Repositories<br />
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*Ralph Nader, an influential voice for shining the light on our government and for funding public libraries.<br />
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*Kids who already go to their local library. Youth librarians.<br />
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*I assume that the Knight Foundation will be there. Have you thought of getting some of the people who run community foundations involved? They could be important catalysts in bringing local libraries and news organizations together.<br />
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*Douglas Rushkoff, author and media theorist, should be in the room for this discussion. His research examines the intersection of technology and popular culture. In a recent interview with Library Journal, Douglas Rushkoff said, ""Dewey foresaw a society in which people would be able to participate actively in democracy and other social institutions. Lippman thought that was a pipe dream. The jury is still out. Egyptians decided to become more active. Others decide to become more passive.<br />
Librarians can help people to understand what they're choosing, and that it's a choice. It might be that we live in a civilization that chooses to stay passive-but we can at least help people understand that this is a choice, too". He can be contacted via email rushkoff@rushkoff.com. For more information, including the interview mentioned above, see his website at www.rushkoff.com.<br />
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*Online forums that take on the role of reporting news or uncovering issues locally when newspapers shut down. I know that the Knight Foundation has done work around this phenomenon.<br />
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*Kevin Novak, W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) EGOV Chair, http://twitter.com/novakkevin<br />
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*Luke Fretwell, the Founder of GovFresh, http://govfresh.com<br />
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*Lawrence Lessig, http://www.lessig.org/info/contact/<br />
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*Social media champions and technologists<br />
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*Robert Jensen - http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~rjensen/index.html<br />
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*Dan Schiller - http://www.lis.illinois.edu/people/faculty/dschille"<br />
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*Community leaders and funders.<br />
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*Library school students, who can be found at: <br />
**https://www.facebook.com/hacklibschool<br />
**http://hacklibschool.wordpress.com/<br />
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*Scholars/researchers who study the information gathering mores of people. We need the researchers to hear what the journalists and librarians need to know and how they'd measure it <br />
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*Ethicists working on ethical standards in a vastly changing environment - privacy, intellectual property rights, etc. <br />
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*Elected officials - how to communicate a message that's palatable to lawmakers dealing with overwhelming cuts.<br />
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*Advertisers/media owners who set the rules behind the scenes - whether it's publishing books, newspaper ads, cable ownership, an endless list of links in the information chain <br />
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*People who can speak for the homeless community would help participants to understand the central role that libraries play for homeless Americans.<br />
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*People representing open access initiatives and copyright issues belong in the room. In my experience, much of the discussion about improving or enhancing services glosses over hurdles like the reality of copyright issues in a digital environment. Having that aspect represented would be beneficial both for librarians who tend to support open access, and journalists who often are embedded in a for-profit publishing world.<br />
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==Suggested links==<br />
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*http://www.globalimpactstudy.org/author/michellefellows/<br />
*http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~jefinn/<br />
*http://www.globalagoras.org<br />
*http://www.idebate.org/about/index.php<br />
*http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/mcis-current-students/jack-harris.html<br />
*http://portfolio.du.edu/jhelgren<br />
*http://www.prometheusradio.org<br />
*http://www.ala.org <br />
*http://www.photowings.org<br />
*http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/directory/kranich/index.html<br />
*http://newstrust.net/members/mike-labonte<br />
*http://discuss.ala.org/civicengagement/<br />
*http://allprinceton.com<br />
*http://www.ushmm.org/propaganda/<br />
*http://www.leg.state.mn.us/lrl/about.aspx<br />
*http://www.soundandstory.org/home.html<br />
*http://dallaslibrary2.org/ecrr/index.php<br />
*http://www.lis.illinois.edu/academics/programs/phd/infosociety/fellows<br />
*http://library.nyu.edu<br />
*https://sites.google.com/site/projdem/<br />
*http://www.investigativedashboard.org<br />
*http://www.cohassetlibrary.org<br />
*http://www.annalisaraya.com<br />
*http://www.ole.org<br />
*http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/directory/jschemen/index.html<br />
*http://www.wilmlibrary.org<br />
*http://www.patch.com<br />
*http://farmington.patch.com/columns/about-town-63<br />
*http://www.ushmm.org/propaganda/<br />
*http://ww.evident.com<br />
*http://www.masslibsystem.org<br />
*http://www.intelligenttelevision.com<br />
*http://www.rushkoff.com<br />
*http://www.leonardo.info<br />
*http://hacklibschool.wordpress.com/<br />
*http://www.librarian.net<br />
*http://twitter.com/novakkevin<br />
*http://govfresh.com<br />
*http://twitter.com/lukefretwell<br />
*http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~rjensen/index.html<br />
*http://lists.ala.org/sympa/lists/divisions/acrl<br />
*http://www.avpreserve.com<br />
*http://www.lis.illinois.edu/people/faculty/dschille<br />
*http://www.lessig.org/info/contact/<br />
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[[Category:Biblionews]]</div>Bill Densmorehttps://mgpwiki.mediagiraffe.org//index.php?title=File:Eliza-knitting-factory-brooklyn-06-02-18.jpg&diff=236906File:Eliza-knitting-factory-brooklyn-06-02-18.jpg2019-03-20T14:15:44Z<p>Bill Densmore: </p>
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<div></div>Bill Densmorehttps://mgpwiki.mediagiraffe.org//index.php?title=Biblionews-consensus&diff=236905Biblionews-consensus2019-03-19T02:34:57Z<p>Bill Densmore: Created page with "BiblioNews.org -- Beyond Books: News, Literacy and Democracy and America's Libraries<br> ===Cambridge, Mass. (Boston), April 6..."</p>
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===Cambridge, Mass. (Boston), April 6-7, 2011 at the MIT Center for Future Civic Media===<br />
[[Image:Biblionews-thumbs.jpg|250px|thumb|right|[http://www.journalismthatmatters.org JTM home]]]<br />
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<big><i>In 2008, some 80 journalists, educators and citizens at a Journalism That Matters convening at Temple University adopted a consensus statement on media literacy. What would happen if "Beyond Books" participants could reach a consensus on the relationship among libraries, journalism and participatory democracy? To consider the idea, Nancy Kranich and Jorge Reina Schement have drafted this starter document:</i><br />
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==A draft consensus statement on libraries, journalism and participatory democracy==<br />
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Our goal is to work together to create informed, engaged communities and advance 21st-century democracy. <br />
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Healthy communities need individuals and institutions that support and enable broad-based participation in governance, education, and civic life. As journalists, librarians, educators and civic agents, we are committed to communities where members can participate in self-governance. In these communities the common pursuit of truth in the public interest prevails through essential democratic values of openness, inclusion, participation and empowerment. Our libraries and our free press share a common mission of civic engagement and information transparency. <br />
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Journalists and librarians are well positioned to join with the public to strengthen community networks that engage and empower people. Together, we can fill a deficit in the information ecology of 21st century communities. As the tools of these two professions converge, we have begun to explore new ways to work together at the intersection of our missions, in order to serve the information needs of communities. A synthesis of librarianship and journalism requires arenas and collaborative ideas that lead to shared civic experiences. <br />
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We commit ourselves to sustaining the rich dialogue about possibilities for sharing experiences beyond books, begun at the BiblioNews work sessions of April 6-7, 2011, at MIT.<br />
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[[Category:Biblionews-work]]</div>Bill Densmorehttps://mgpwiki.mediagiraffe.org//index.php?title=Report&diff=236904Report2015-06-12T23:41:19Z<p>Bill Densmore: </p>
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<div>=Report for America: Putting feet back on the streets for accountability journalism=<br />
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=NEW (June 16, 2015): Report for America [https://medium.com/@stevenwaldman/report-for-america-bc65a707c395 proposal from Steve Waldman] (research supported by the Ford Foundation).=<br />
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===THE IDEA:===<br />
(If you would like to join a discussion about this idea please contact me: Bll Densmore, research fellow, Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute, Unversity of Missouri School of Journalism / wpdensmore@gmail.com / 617-448-6600 <br />
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<h3>UPDATED: Current proposal: http://www.newshare.com/rfa/proposal.pdf</h3><br />
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ORIGINALLY POSTED Jan. 16, 2009 to Change.gov: <br><br />
http://citizensbriefingbook.change.gov/ideas/viewIdea.apexp?id=0878000000058gr<br />
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====A new National Writers Project -- for journalism====<br />
» Posted by wpdjr53 on 1/16/2009 6:47 PM<br />
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<big>"The traditional business model for journalism -- pairing it with advertising -- is falling apart. This leaves fact-based, independent, watchdog journalism adrift, with less and less commercial support. Public radio and some initiatives like ProPublica and Spot.us are approaching the problem.<br />
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How about a national service corp, similar to the '30s era National Writers Project, which would select the best-and-brightest of America's college graduates for a year of service working for non-profit and for-profit news<br />
organizations to report on important civic issues? Their work would be "open<br />
source" -- made available publlcly on the web. It could be sponsored and<br />
promoted by blogs, local online news organizations and traditional<br />
mainstream media outlets. The work could be reviewed prior to publication<br />
by a non-partian panel of editors or citzens -- not to edit or censor, but<br />
to provide a concurring or dissenting opinion about the reporting against<br />
which reading/viewing public could make judgments about its trustworthiness.<br />
Look to NewsTrust.NET for an example of how journalism can be vetted and<br />
rated by the public. See also the Representative Journalism project in<br />
Northfield, Minn."</big><br />
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===MORE DISCUSSION OF THIS IDEA===<br />
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*[http://groups.google.com/group/jtmlist/browse_thread/thread/c3c52a8c6b5444c4 On the Journalism That Matters Google group]<br />
*[http://groups.google.com/group/jtmlist/browse_thread/thread/f8e01ad4ea238d2b More from the JTM Google group]<br />
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===Another take on the same vision -- from Josh Stearns at FreePress.net=== <br />
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Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 20:25:19 -0800<br><br />
From: Josh Stearns <jstearns@freepress.net><br><br />
To: "jtmlist@googlegroups.com Matters" <jtmlist@googlegroups.com><br><br />
Subject: {JTM} Re: QUERY: Are there serious options for "subsidies" for the news?<br><br />
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Hi folks,The "Write for America" idea has been around the block for a while now. We described it in detail in our May report (which can be<br />
downloaded here: http://www.savethenews.org/research ) and Ken Doctor also blogged about a version of this a few weeks ago. As a former AmeriCorps member<br />
and a former lobbyist for national service legislation I know there are some challenges in the requirements for AmeriCorps funding that could lead<br />
to free speech issues for journalists - I am happy to go into more depth later for those who are interested.<br />
<br />
Here are two ideas from our report - we outline many others in Saving the News: Towards a National Journalism Strategy<br />
- www.savethenews.org/research<br />
<br />
====Journalism Jobs Program====<br />
<br />
The final proposal for a short-term remedy to the journalism crisis is an attempt to support veteran, qualified reporters and simultaneously to<br />
engage young people in journalism. One of the biggest problems with the collapsing business model of print newspapers is the possibility that tens<br />
of thousands of highly trained and experienced reporters will dissipate into other sectors of the economy, and tens of thousands of talented young<br />
people will be dissuaded from becoming journalists in the first place.<br />
<br />
With the recent expansion of AmeriCorps^Y existing domestic service program, now would be an opportune moment to include journalistic activities<br />
as part of its mission. ^\The Serve America Act,^] which Congress approved in March, will dramatically increase service and paid volunteer jobs<br />
from 75,000 to 250,000 positions. The New York Times reports that full-time and part-time service volunteers would work for ^\new programs focused<br />
on special areas like strengthening schools, improving health care for low-income communities, boosting energy efficiency and cleaning up parks.^]<br />
The AmeriCorps expansion ^T which will cost approximately $6 billion over five years ^T also provides for a Social Innovation Fund to expand on<br />
proven initiatives while supplying seed funding for experimental programs. Volunteers would receive minimal living expenses and a modest<br />
educational stipend of $5,350 after their year of service. There are also special fellowships for people 55 and older, as well as summer positions<br />
for middle- and high-school students.<br />
<br />
Building on Eric Klinenberg^Ys idea, a small percentage of these AmeriCorps jobs could go to journalism positions, fellowships, or even to<br />
journalism projects to report on the new initiatives being created through this act. These also could provide a much-needed service if combined<br />
with or subsumed under university media literacy programs. A promising model has been implemented recently by a John S. and James L. Knight<br />
Foundation-backed initiative at Stony Brook University. The school has hired 50 laid-off journalists to undergo summer training with the goal of<br />
joining dozens of universities in the fall to teach ^\news literacy^] to non-journalism majors.<br />
<br />
A similar program could be established to hire journalists to teach media literacy and help launch journalistic endeavors at all levels of<br />
education. The media literacy program could be expanded to include many more universities through the creation of formal Department of Education<br />
grants that might be leveraged using foundation support. <br />
<br />
There are other direct avenues for federal government programs to aid in job creation in this industry. The Department of Labor could design a<br />
program aimed at keeping reporters employed at existing news organizations or at new outlets. Such a job-creation program would stimulate the<br />
economy and offset unemployment payments that might otherwise go to out-of-work reporters. The structure and administration of such a program<br />
requires further study, but the basic cost-benefit analysis is promising. If the government were to subsidize 5,000 reporters at $50,000 per year,<br />
the cost would be $250 million annually, a relatively modest sum given the billions coming out of Washington. Drawing on Ed Baker^Ys ideas for<br />
subsidizing journalists and from the New Deal-era Federal Writers Project, this injection of resources would serve as a bridge to help keep<br />
reporters on the beat in local communities as the industry transitions to new business models and new media forms.<br />
<br />
====R & D Fund for Journalistic Innovation====<br />
<br />
^\The only solution I have to offer is pluralism itself,^] writes New York University Professor Jay Rosen about the future of news. ^\Many<br />
funders, many paths, many players, and many news systems with different ideas about how to practice journalism for public good (and how to pay for<br />
it, along with who participates).^]<br />
<br />
To create the necessary institutional pluralism, and to provide for a future of text-based media read on electronic devices with multiple revenue<br />
streams and multiple platforms, we need to think about the new media marketplace as an incubator for innovation. We propose the creation of a<br />
government-seeded innovation fund for journalism ^T a taxpayer-supported venture capital firm that invests in new business models. As a starting<br />
point, we are proposing a $50 million per year budget.<br />
<br />
Such a fund is not without precedent. The Telecommunications Development Fund (TDF) was created by Section 714 of the 1996 Telecommunications Act<br />
to focus investment in small businesses that produce important public goods in the communications sector that were ignored by for-profit venture<br />
capital.<br />
<br />
A private, non-governmental, venture capital firm, TDF was seeded with public funds and authorized to make investments with public service goals.<br />
TDF is governed by a board appointed by the FCC chairman. This model could be adopted for a journalism fund with provisions that the board would<br />
be made up of representatives from industry, academic institutions, and public interest groups. A firewall would be set up between the board and<br />
the journalism initiatives they fund. Clearly, such an initiative would require an act of Congress to establish, though it^Ys crucial that such<br />
legislation include provisions to shield the fund from any undue political influence. This new venture capital firm could be set up as a<br />
public-private partnership, with federal matching funds for foundation-supported projects.<br />
<br />
Whereas many of the other strategies discussed here are aimed at transitioning legacy media into new sustainable forms, the new journalism fund<br />
should support forward-thinking endeavors that take advantage of new technologies. Resources should also be used to provide guaranteed loans to<br />
startup initiatives, such as Web-based community newsrooms and services, as well as projects that serve communities of color. The idea is to try<br />
to catalyze a wave of innovation in journalism 2.0 and to trigger market forces that will help move some of these nascent projects from concept to<br />
full-fledged operations.<br />
<br />
Josh Stearns<br />
Free Press</div>Bill Densmorehttps://mgpwiki.mediagiraffe.org//index.php?title=Report&diff=236903Report2015-06-01T13:15:50Z<p>Bill Densmore: /* THE IDEA: */</p>
<hr />
<div>=Report for America: Putting feet back on the streets for accountability journalism=<br />
<br />
===THE IDEA:===<br />
(If you would like to join a discussion about this idea please contact me: Bll Densmore, research fellow, Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute, Unversity of Missouri School of Journalism / wpdensmore@gmail.com / 617-448-6600 <br />
<br />
<hr><br />
<br />
<h3>UPDATED: Current proposal: http://www.newshare.com/rfa/proposal.pdf</h3><br />
<hr><br />
<br />
ORIGINALLY POSTED Jan. 16, 2009 to Change.gov: <br><br />
http://citizensbriefingbook.change.gov/ideas/viewIdea.apexp?id=0878000000058gr<br />
<br />
====A new National Writers Project -- for journalism====<br />
» Posted by wpdjr53 on 1/16/2009 6:47 PM<br />
<br />
<big>"The traditional business model for journalism -- pairing it with advertising -- is falling apart. This leaves fact-based, independent, watchdog journalism adrift, with less and less commercial support. Public radio and some initiatives like ProPublica and Spot.us are approaching the problem.<br />
<br />
How about a national service corp, similar to the '30s era National Writers Project, which would select the best-and-brightest of America's college graduates for a year of service working for non-profit and for-profit news<br />
organizations to report on important civic issues? Their work would be "open<br />
source" -- made available publlcly on the web. It could be sponsored and<br />
promoted by blogs, local online news organizations and traditional<br />
mainstream media outlets. The work could be reviewed prior to publication<br />
by a non-partian panel of editors or citzens -- not to edit or censor, but<br />
to provide a concurring or dissenting opinion about the reporting against<br />
which reading/viewing public could make judgments about its trustworthiness.<br />
Look to NewsTrust.NET for an example of how journalism can be vetted and<br />
rated by the public. See also the Representative Journalism project in<br />
Northfield, Minn."</big><br />
<br />
<hr><br />
<br />
===MORE DISCUSSION OF THIS IDEA===<br />
<br />
*[http://groups.google.com/group/jtmlist/browse_thread/thread/c3c52a8c6b5444c4 On the Journalism That Matters Google group]<br />
*[http://groups.google.com/group/jtmlist/browse_thread/thread/f8e01ad4ea238d2b More from the JTM Google group]<br />
<br />
<hr><br />
<br />
===Another take on the same vision -- from Josh Stearns at FreePress.net=== <br />
<br />
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 20:25:19 -0800<br><br />
From: Josh Stearns <jstearns@freepress.net><br><br />
To: "jtmlist@googlegroups.com Matters" <jtmlist@googlegroups.com><br><br />
Subject: {JTM} Re: QUERY: Are there serious options for "subsidies" for the news?<br><br />
<br />
Hi folks,The "Write for America" idea has been around the block for a while now. We described it in detail in our May report (which can be<br />
downloaded here: http://www.savethenews.org/research ) and Ken Doctor also blogged about a version of this a few weeks ago. As a former AmeriCorps member<br />
and a former lobbyist for national service legislation I know there are some challenges in the requirements for AmeriCorps funding that could lead<br />
to free speech issues for journalists - I am happy to go into more depth later for those who are interested.<br />
<br />
Here are two ideas from our report - we outline many others in Saving the News: Towards a National Journalism Strategy<br />
- www.savethenews.org/research<br />
<br />
====Journalism Jobs Program====<br />
<br />
The final proposal for a short-term remedy to the journalism crisis is an attempt to support veteran, qualified reporters and simultaneously to<br />
engage young people in journalism. One of the biggest problems with the collapsing business model of print newspapers is the possibility that tens<br />
of thousands of highly trained and experienced reporters will dissipate into other sectors of the economy, and tens of thousands of talented young<br />
people will be dissuaded from becoming journalists in the first place.<br />
<br />
With the recent expansion of AmeriCorps^Y existing domestic service program, now would be an opportune moment to include journalistic activities<br />
as part of its mission. ^\The Serve America Act,^] which Congress approved in March, will dramatically increase service and paid volunteer jobs<br />
from 75,000 to 250,000 positions. The New York Times reports that full-time and part-time service volunteers would work for ^\new programs focused<br />
on special areas like strengthening schools, improving health care for low-income communities, boosting energy efficiency and cleaning up parks.^]<br />
The AmeriCorps expansion ^T which will cost approximately $6 billion over five years ^T also provides for a Social Innovation Fund to expand on<br />
proven initiatives while supplying seed funding for experimental programs. Volunteers would receive minimal living expenses and a modest<br />
educational stipend of $5,350 after their year of service. There are also special fellowships for people 55 and older, as well as summer positions<br />
for middle- and high-school students.<br />
<br />
Building on Eric Klinenberg^Ys idea, a small percentage of these AmeriCorps jobs could go to journalism positions, fellowships, or even to<br />
journalism projects to report on the new initiatives being created through this act. These also could provide a much-needed service if combined<br />
with or subsumed under university media literacy programs. A promising model has been implemented recently by a John S. and James L. Knight<br />
Foundation-backed initiative at Stony Brook University. The school has hired 50 laid-off journalists to undergo summer training with the goal of<br />
joining dozens of universities in the fall to teach ^\news literacy^] to non-journalism majors.<br />
<br />
A similar program could be established to hire journalists to teach media literacy and help launch journalistic endeavors at all levels of<br />
education. The media literacy program could be expanded to include many more universities through the creation of formal Department of Education<br />
grants that might be leveraged using foundation support. <br />
<br />
There are other direct avenues for federal government programs to aid in job creation in this industry. The Department of Labor could design a<br />
program aimed at keeping reporters employed at existing news organizations or at new outlets. Such a job-creation program would stimulate the<br />
economy and offset unemployment payments that might otherwise go to out-of-work reporters. The structure and administration of such a program<br />
requires further study, but the basic cost-benefit analysis is promising. If the government were to subsidize 5,000 reporters at $50,000 per year,<br />
the cost would be $250 million annually, a relatively modest sum given the billions coming out of Washington. Drawing on Ed Baker^Ys ideas for<br />
subsidizing journalists and from the New Deal-era Federal Writers Project, this injection of resources would serve as a bridge to help keep<br />
reporters on the beat in local communities as the industry transitions to new business models and new media forms.<br />
<br />
====R & D Fund for Journalistic Innovation====<br />
<br />
^\The only solution I have to offer is pluralism itself,^] writes New York University Professor Jay Rosen about the future of news. ^\Many<br />
funders, many paths, many players, and many news systems with different ideas about how to practice journalism for public good (and how to pay for<br />
it, along with who participates).^]<br />
<br />
To create the necessary institutional pluralism, and to provide for a future of text-based media read on electronic devices with multiple revenue<br />
streams and multiple platforms, we need to think about the new media marketplace as an incubator for innovation. We propose the creation of a<br />
government-seeded innovation fund for journalism ^T a taxpayer-supported venture capital firm that invests in new business models. As a starting<br />
point, we are proposing a $50 million per year budget.<br />
<br />
Such a fund is not without precedent. The Telecommunications Development Fund (TDF) was created by Section 714 of the 1996 Telecommunications Act<br />
to focus investment in small businesses that produce important public goods in the communications sector that were ignored by for-profit venture<br />
capital.<br />
<br />
A private, non-governmental, venture capital firm, TDF was seeded with public funds and authorized to make investments with public service goals.<br />
TDF is governed by a board appointed by the FCC chairman. This model could be adopted for a journalism fund with provisions that the board would<br />
be made up of representatives from industry, academic institutions, and public interest groups. A firewall would be set up between the board and<br />
the journalism initiatives they fund. Clearly, such an initiative would require an act of Congress to establish, though it^Ys crucial that such<br />
legislation include provisions to shield the fund from any undue political influence. This new venture capital firm could be set up as a<br />
public-private partnership, with federal matching funds for foundation-supported projects.<br />
<br />
Whereas many of the other strategies discussed here are aimed at transitioning legacy media into new sustainable forms, the new journalism fund<br />
should support forward-thinking endeavors that take advantage of new technologies. Resources should also be used to provide guaranteed loans to<br />
startup initiatives, such as Web-based community newsrooms and services, as well as projects that serve communities of color. The idea is to try<br />
to catalyze a wave of innovation in journalism 2.0 and to trigger market forces that will help move some of these nascent projects from concept to<br />
full-fledged operations.<br />
<br />
Josh Stearns<br />
Free Press</div>Bill Densmorehttps://mgpwiki.mediagiraffe.org//index.php?title=Report&diff=236902Report2015-06-01T13:15:25Z<p>Bill Densmore: /* THE IDEA: */</p>
<hr />
<div>=Report for America: Putting feet back on the streets for accountability journalism=<br />
<br />
===THE IDEA:===<br />
(If you would like to join a discussion about this idea please contact me: Bll Densmore, research fellow, Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute, Unviersity of Missouri School of JOurnalism / wpdensmore@gmail.com / 617-448-6600 <br />
<br />
<hr><br />
<br />
<h3>UPDATED: Current proposal: http://www.newshare.com/rfa/proposal.pdf</h3><br />
<hr><br />
<br />
ORIGINALLY POSTED Jan. 16, 2009 to Change.gov: <br><br />
http://citizensbriefingbook.change.gov/ideas/viewIdea.apexp?id=0878000000058gr<br />
<br />
====A new National Writers Project -- for journalism====<br />
» Posted by wpdjr53 on 1/16/2009 6:47 PM<br />
<br />
<big>"The traditional business model for journalism -- pairing it with advertising -- is falling apart. This leaves fact-based, independent, watchdog journalism adrift, with less and less commercial support. Public radio and some initiatives like ProPublica and Spot.us are approaching the problem.<br />
<br />
How about a national service corp, similar to the '30s era National Writers Project, which would select the best-and-brightest of America's college graduates for a year of service working for non-profit and for-profit news<br />
organizations to report on important civic issues? Their work would be "open<br />
source" -- made available publlcly on the web. It could be sponsored and<br />
promoted by blogs, local online news organizations and traditional<br />
mainstream media outlets. The work could be reviewed prior to publication<br />
by a non-partian panel of editors or citzens -- not to edit or censor, but<br />
to provide a concurring or dissenting opinion about the reporting against<br />
which reading/viewing public could make judgments about its trustworthiness.<br />
Look to NewsTrust.NET for an example of how journalism can be vetted and<br />
rated by the public. See also the Representative Journalism project in<br />
Northfield, Minn."</big><br />
<br />
<hr><br />
<br />
===MORE DISCUSSION OF THIS IDEA===<br />
<br />
*[http://groups.google.com/group/jtmlist/browse_thread/thread/c3c52a8c6b5444c4 On the Journalism That Matters Google group]<br />
*[http://groups.google.com/group/jtmlist/browse_thread/thread/f8e01ad4ea238d2b More from the JTM Google group]<br />
<br />
<hr><br />
<br />
===Another take on the same vision -- from Josh Stearns at FreePress.net=== <br />
<br />
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 20:25:19 -0800<br><br />
From: Josh Stearns <jstearns@freepress.net><br><br />
To: "jtmlist@googlegroups.com Matters" <jtmlist@googlegroups.com><br><br />
Subject: {JTM} Re: QUERY: Are there serious options for "subsidies" for the news?<br><br />
<br />
Hi folks,The "Write for America" idea has been around the block for a while now. We described it in detail in our May report (which can be<br />
downloaded here: http://www.savethenews.org/research ) and Ken Doctor also blogged about a version of this a few weeks ago. As a former AmeriCorps member<br />
and a former lobbyist for national service legislation I know there are some challenges in the requirements for AmeriCorps funding that could lead<br />
to free speech issues for journalists - I am happy to go into more depth later for those who are interested.<br />
<br />
Here are two ideas from our report - we outline many others in Saving the News: Towards a National Journalism Strategy<br />
- www.savethenews.org/research<br />
<br />
====Journalism Jobs Program====<br />
<br />
The final proposal for a short-term remedy to the journalism crisis is an attempt to support veteran, qualified reporters and simultaneously to<br />
engage young people in journalism. One of the biggest problems with the collapsing business model of print newspapers is the possibility that tens<br />
of thousands of highly trained and experienced reporters will dissipate into other sectors of the economy, and tens of thousands of talented young<br />
people will be dissuaded from becoming journalists in the first place.<br />
<br />
With the recent expansion of AmeriCorps^Y existing domestic service program, now would be an opportune moment to include journalistic activities<br />
as part of its mission. ^\The Serve America Act,^] which Congress approved in March, will dramatically increase service and paid volunteer jobs<br />
from 75,000 to 250,000 positions. The New York Times reports that full-time and part-time service volunteers would work for ^\new programs focused<br />
on special areas like strengthening schools, improving health care for low-income communities, boosting energy efficiency and cleaning up parks.^]<br />
The AmeriCorps expansion ^T which will cost approximately $6 billion over five years ^T also provides for a Social Innovation Fund to expand on<br />
proven initiatives while supplying seed funding for experimental programs. Volunteers would receive minimal living expenses and a modest<br />
educational stipend of $5,350 after their year of service. There are also special fellowships for people 55 and older, as well as summer positions<br />
for middle- and high-school students.<br />
<br />
Building on Eric Klinenberg^Ys idea, a small percentage of these AmeriCorps jobs could go to journalism positions, fellowships, or even to<br />
journalism projects to report on the new initiatives being created through this act. These also could provide a much-needed service if combined<br />
with or subsumed under university media literacy programs. A promising model has been implemented recently by a John S. and James L. Knight<br />
Foundation-backed initiative at Stony Brook University. The school has hired 50 laid-off journalists to undergo summer training with the goal of<br />
joining dozens of universities in the fall to teach ^\news literacy^] to non-journalism majors.<br />
<br />
A similar program could be established to hire journalists to teach media literacy and help launch journalistic endeavors at all levels of<br />
education. The media literacy program could be expanded to include many more universities through the creation of formal Department of Education<br />
grants that might be leveraged using foundation support. <br />
<br />
There are other direct avenues for federal government programs to aid in job creation in this industry. The Department of Labor could design a<br />
program aimed at keeping reporters employed at existing news organizations or at new outlets. Such a job-creation program would stimulate the<br />
economy and offset unemployment payments that might otherwise go to out-of-work reporters. The structure and administration of such a program<br />
requires further study, but the basic cost-benefit analysis is promising. If the government were to subsidize 5,000 reporters at $50,000 per year,<br />
the cost would be $250 million annually, a relatively modest sum given the billions coming out of Washington. Drawing on Ed Baker^Ys ideas for<br />
subsidizing journalists and from the New Deal-era Federal Writers Project, this injection of resources would serve as a bridge to help keep<br />
reporters on the beat in local communities as the industry transitions to new business models and new media forms.<br />
<br />
====R & D Fund for Journalistic Innovation====<br />
<br />
^\The only solution I have to offer is pluralism itself,^] writes New York University Professor Jay Rosen about the future of news. ^\Many<br />
funders, many paths, many players, and many news systems with different ideas about how to practice journalism for public good (and how to pay for<br />
it, along with who participates).^]<br />
<br />
To create the necessary institutional pluralism, and to provide for a future of text-based media read on electronic devices with multiple revenue<br />
streams and multiple platforms, we need to think about the new media marketplace as an incubator for innovation. We propose the creation of a<br />
government-seeded innovation fund for journalism ^T a taxpayer-supported venture capital firm that invests in new business models. As a starting<br />
point, we are proposing a $50 million per year budget.<br />
<br />
Such a fund is not without precedent. The Telecommunications Development Fund (TDF) was created by Section 714 of the 1996 Telecommunications Act<br />
to focus investment in small businesses that produce important public goods in the communications sector that were ignored by for-profit venture<br />
capital.<br />
<br />
A private, non-governmental, venture capital firm, TDF was seeded with public funds and authorized to make investments with public service goals.<br />
TDF is governed by a board appointed by the FCC chairman. This model could be adopted for a journalism fund with provisions that the board would<br />
be made up of representatives from industry, academic institutions, and public interest groups. A firewall would be set up between the board and<br />
the journalism initiatives they fund. Clearly, such an initiative would require an act of Congress to establish, though it^Ys crucial that such<br />
legislation include provisions to shield the fund from any undue political influence. This new venture capital firm could be set up as a<br />
public-private partnership, with federal matching funds for foundation-supported projects.<br />
<br />
Whereas many of the other strategies discussed here are aimed at transitioning legacy media into new sustainable forms, the new journalism fund<br />
should support forward-thinking endeavors that take advantage of new technologies. Resources should also be used to provide guaranteed loans to<br />
startup initiatives, such as Web-based community newsrooms and services, as well as projects that serve communities of color. The idea is to try<br />
to catalyze a wave of innovation in journalism 2.0 and to trigger market forces that will help move some of these nascent projects from concept to<br />
full-fledged operations.<br />
<br />
Josh Stearns<br />
Free Press</div>Bill Densmorehttps://mgpwiki.mediagiraffe.org//index.php?title=Biblionews&diff=236901Biblionews2015-05-25T03:27:37Z<p>Bill Densmore: </p>
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<big><b>For three centuries, in American towns large and small, two institutions have uniquely marked a commitment to participatory democracy, learning and open inquiry -- our libraries and our free press. Today, as their tools change, their mission of civic engagement and information transparency converge. Economic and technology changes suggest an opportunity for collaboration among these two historic community information centers -- one largely public, one largely private. How?</b></big><br />
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Libraries and legacy media always shared a common purpose -- helping us acquire the information we need to be engaged, informed (and entertained) citizens. They used different tools -- newspapers, broadcast stations and books. Now the tools are converging -- web search, data taxonomies, database creation and analysis, social networks -- as librarians and journalists together foster civic literacy and engagement.<br />
<br />
Librarians want to expand public access to accurate information, including trustworthy local news. So do journalists. How do we expand libraries as community information centers beyond books -- perhaps even beyond their four walls -- facilitating and engaging with journalists? What can libraries and journalists do -- together -- to foster improved access to community information?<br />
<br />
==THE CONVENING QUESTIONS==<br />
<h3>Thus, as the tools and mission converge, it's time to ask:<br> "What's possible at the intersection of libraries and journalism<br>that serves the information needs of communities and democracy?"</h3><br />
<br />
Via a pre-event social network, an evening agenda-setting dialogue, a day of roundtable planning and action commitments, we’ll discover what’s possible at the intersection of public spaces, open documents, citizen reporting and journalistic purpose. Questions we may ask: <br />
<br />
*What might libraries do to facilitate community social news networks? <br />
*Must free speech be absolute within a taxpayer-supported institution? <br />
*How do we define the boundaries between engagement and partisanship? <br />
*As cable fades, are libraries poised to become public-access media centers?<br />
*Should a library operate a news collective, non-profit or citizen-journalism service?<br />
*How can libraries help preserve a free digital information commons? <br />
<br />
==CO-SPONSORS== <br />
A growing list of co-sponsors include [http://www.journalismthatmatters.org Journalism That Matters,] the [http://civic.mit.edu MIT Center for Future Civic Media,] the American Library Association, the [http://www.mediagiraffe.org Media Giraffe Project]at UMass-Amherst and the [http://www.newenglandnews.org New England News Forum.]<br />
<br />
==EARLY COLLABORATORS==<br />
<br />
Among our collaborators are(alpha order): Joe Bergantino (New England Center for Investigative Reporting), Jessica Durkin (New America Foundation fellow), Mike Fancher (RJI / Seattle Times-retired), Fabrice Florin (NewsTrust), Marsha Iverson (member ALA, LLMA, public-relations specialist King County Library System), Alan Inouye (director, Office of Info Tech Policy, ALA), Nancy Kranich (Rutgers Univ., chair ALA Center for Public Life), Lorrie LeJeune and Andrew Whitacre (MIT C4FCM), Leigh Montgomery (Christian Science Monitor librarian), Donna Nicely (Knight Commission/Nashville Public Library), Patrick Phillips (Vineyard Voice), Josh Stearns (FreePress.net), Colin Rhinesmith (Univ. of Illinois), Bill Densmore, (New England News Forum/Media Giraffe Project/Reynolds Journalism Institute).<br />
<br />
<br />
<i>We chose those dates -- a Wednesday evening and full day on Thursday -- because that's immediately before the National Conference for Media Reform (NCMR), also in Boston. And you can register once for Beyond Books and be cross-registered to NCMR -- for one package price of only $175 between now and Feb. 28 -- almost four days of sessions and networking!</i><br />
<br />
How can libraries, educational institutions and reporters/editors collaborate using the web to foster the values, principles and<br />
purposes of journalism?<br />
<br />
How might public, university and school libraries expand their role as community information centers to inspire and perhaps equip citizens who want to practice and support the values, principles and purposes of journalism?<br />
<br />
==BACKGROUND DATA==<br />
<br />
(First two bullets excerpted from an Oct. 3, 2010 [http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2010-10-03-library-ipod_N.htm Associated Press story] available at the [http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2010-10-03-library-ipod_N.htm USAToday website.]) <br />
<br />
*The latest national data from the Institute of Museum and Library Services show that library visits and circulation climbed nearly 20% from 1999 to 2008. Since then, experts say, technology has continued to drive in-person visits, circulation and usage.<br><br />
*Now, the digital sphere is expanding: 82% of America's more than 16,000 public libraries have Wi-Fi up from 37% four years ago, according to the American Library Association. A growing number of libraries are launching mobile websites and smart-phone applications.<br><br />
*The John S. & James L. Knight Foundation is [http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6700336.html backing initiatives] to improve information access via libraries. The Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities includes a [http://www.knightcomm.org/recommendation7/ specific recommendation about libraries] and makes [http://librariesandtransliteracy.wordpress.com/2010/02/09/knight-commission-on-the-information-needs-of-communities-in-a-democracy-warns-of-%E2%80%9Csecond-class-citizens%E2%80%9D-in-the-digital-age/ repeated references to them.] Followup research for the commission cites the [http://www.knightcomm.org/news-leadership-3-0-new-report-examines-public-library%E2%80%99s-growing-role-as-online-civic-hub/ increasing civic-information role of libraries.]<br><br />
*In Oakland, Calif., the legal daily newspaper [http://www.oaklandvoices.us/2010/06/15/ov-press-release-12810/ partnered with the city and the West Oakland Public Library] to install a community-news center. [http://newshare.com/pdf/jtm-reynolds-oakland-library.pdf PDF-DOWNLOAD BACKGROUNDER]<br><br />
*The Seattle/Puget Sound Civic Communications Commons cites the [http://journalismthatmatters.org/blog/2010/07/15/civic-communications-commons/ "vital work of libraries as conveners, connectors, and providers of information and civic space,"] in its convening work.<br />
*A [http://www.pewinternet.org/Commentary/2007/December/The-new-information-order.aspx 2007 study] by the Pew Center found that [http://www.gmanews.tv/story/74681/young-adults-are-heavy-library-users-study-shows Young adults are heaviest library users, even though they are also on the web.]The Pew Internet and American Life Project and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/07/technology/07drill.html?_r=1&ref=pewinternetandamericanlifeproject conducted the study jointly.] One anecdotal finding: Libraries are increasingly creating social spaces within their walls. Pew's Lee Rainie [http://www.pewinternet.org/topics/Libraries.aspx tracks and speaks on library usage.]<br />
<br><br />
See also: [http://www.pewinternet.org/Presentations/2008/The-role-of-libraries-in-the-digital-age.aspx "The Role of Libraries in the Digital Age,"] (Pew/Lee Rainie), and the [http://www.pewinternet.org/Shared-Content/Data-Sets/2007/Libraries-Survey-2007.aspx RESEARCH DATASET.]<br />
<br />
==BASIC SCHEDULE==<br />
Wednesday -- Convene for afternoon networking session about 3 p.m. on Wed., April 6. Buffet supper at MIT, then an evening panel/program. <br />
Thursday -- Continental breakfast at 8:30 a.m.; program start at 9 a.m., run through 5 p.m. with snack breaks and box lunch. Birds-of-a-feather Dutch Treat (you pay) dinner arrangements facilitated. <br />
<br />
==REGISTRATION== <br />
<br />
*Wed/Thurs. -- $125.00 <br />
*Thurs. ONLY -- $75.00<br />
*Students -- $50.00 <br />
<br />
===Inclusive registration for the [http://conference.freepress.net National Conference for Media Reform] (April 8-10)===<br />
(includes both events, Wed.-Sunday) [http://ncmr11.eventbrite.com/ .]<br />
<br />
*Through March 25: $225.00 (combines BiblioNews & NCMR)<br />
<br />
<h2><b>[https://www.123signup.com/event?id=vvrfx REGISTER NOW]</b></h2><br />
<br />
===Lodging Options===<br />
<br />
A negotiated rate of $209/night is pending with the Cambridge Marriott (617-494-6600), two blocks from our meeting place. You will receive a code to access the rate with the email which confirms your registration to participate in BiblioNews. To access the rate, email a request to jtm@journalismthatmatters.org <br />
<br />
Other lodging information is available from:<br><br />
http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Biblionews-lodging<br />
<br />
==EXAMPLES OF INTEREST==<br />
<br />
"The Office for Information Technology Policy (OITP) at the ALA Washington Office is [http://www.wo.ala.org/districtdispatch/?p=5173 working on a policy brief] on the evolving newspaper industry and the implications for libraries. In a number of communities, the ability of newspapers to provide local community information is declining. At the same time, informal sources of local information are rapidly increasing. What are libraries doing to foster improved access to community information in the context of these changes?"<br />
<br />
ALA-cited issues:<br />
<br />
*Empowering patrons to create their own news and media at the grassroots level. Such endeavors might include enhancing patrons’ skills in creating do-it-yourself forms of media using technology tools and resources available at the library<br />
*Generating news-like content via community documentation projects hosted at a library<br />
*Partnering with other like-minded organizations to create news collectives, non-profits, or citizen journalism projects<br />
<br />
[http://www.wo.ala.org/districtdispatch/?p=5173 LINK TO OITP'S QUESTIONS]<br />
<br />
==[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Biblionews-resources RESOURCES/LINKS PAGE]==<br />
<br />
<h1>[https://www.123signup.com/event?id=vvrfx REGISTER NOW]</h1><br />
<br />
==SPACES SHOWN==<br />
<br />
[[Image:E15-LowerAtrium.png|250px|thumb|left|[]]]<br />
[[Image:E15-BartosTheater.png|250px|thumb|left|[]]]<br />
(Atrium is bigger than photo suggests)<br />
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[[Category:Biblionews]]</div>Bill Densmorehttps://mgpwiki.mediagiraffe.org//index.php?title=Biblionews&diff=236900Biblionews2015-05-25T03:27:14Z<p>Bill Densmore: </p>
<hr />
<div>[[Image:Biblionews-banner.jpg|800px|thumb|left|BiblioNews.org -- Beyond Books: News, Literacy and Democracy and America's Libraries]]<br><br />
===Cambridge, Mass. (Boston), April 6-7, 2011 at the MIT Center for Future Civic Media===<br />
[[Image:Biblionews-thumbs.jpg|250px|thumb|right|[http://www.journalismthatmatters.org JTM home]]]<br />
<h4><br />
[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Biblionews-lodging LODGING INFO] / [http://journalismthatmatters.org/biblionews/whos-coming/ WHO'S COMING?] / [http://journalismthatmatters.org/biblionews/program/ TENTATIVE SCHEDULE] / [http://journalismthatmatters.org/biblionews EVENT HOME PAGE] / [http://journalismthatmatters.org/sessions/biblionews/blog/ BIBLIONEWS BLOG] / [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/images/c/cb/Biblionews.pdf DOWNLOAD POSTING NOTICE] / [http://groups.google.com/group/biblionews-boston/topics DISCUSSION LISTSERV] / [http://groups.google.com/group/biblionews-boston/subscribe SIGNUP FOR UPDATES] / [http://twitter.com/biblionews TWITTER: biblionews]/ [http://twitter.com/#!/search/%23biblionews FOLLOW HASHTAG #BIBLIONEWS] / [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/images/7/78/Biblionews-banner.jpg DOWNLOAD / POST BANNER ANNOUNCEMENT] / [http://www.flickr.com/photos/10407505@N03/sets/72157625889767926/ START OF PHOTOSET] / [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Biblionews ALL BEYOND BOOKS WIKI PAGES]</h4><br />
<br />
RECENT LINKS:<BR><br />
*http://www.alternet.org/books/why-libraries-matter-more-ever-age-google<br />
<br />
<br />
=BEYOND BOOKS WIKI LINKS=<br />
==<b><br />
*[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Biblionews-work WIKI WORK PAGES]<br />
*[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Biblionews-breakout BREAKOUT REPORT PAGES]<br />
*[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Biblionews-participants PARTICIPANT BIOS]<br />
*[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Biblionews GENERAL PAGES]==<br />
</b><br />
<br />
<br />
==THE CHALLENGE==<br />
[[Image:Jtm-logos.jpg|100px|thumb|right|[http://www.journalismthatmatters.org JTM home]]]<br />
<big><b>For three centuries, in American towns large and small, two institutions have uniquely marked a commitment to participatory democracy, learning and open inquiry -- our libraries and our free press. Today, as their tools change, their mission of civic engagement and information transparency converge. Economic and technology changes suggest an opportunity for collaboration among these two historic community information centers -- one largely public, one largely private. How?</b></big><br />
<br />
<h1><b>[https://www.123signup.com/event?id=vvrfx REGISTER NOW]</b></h1><br />
Join [http://www.journalismthatmatters.org/biblionews Journalism That Matters] and other sponsors (below) on Wednesday and Thursday, April 6 and 7, 2011, for “Beyond Books: News, Literacy, Democracy and America’s Libraries,” (short title: "BiblioNews") a work session for civic engagement and information transparency, at MIT in Cambridge, preceding the National Conference for Media Reform (Fri-Sun) in nearby Boston. Location: [http://www.mit.edu/~cousot/MintaMartinLecture/directions.html Bartos Theatre,] MIT Center for Future Civic Media, Media Lab Building E15, Lower Atrium, 25 Carleton St., Cambridge MA 02142.</big> <br />
<br />
<br />
==GOAL / CONVENING QUESTION==<br />
The capability of newspapers to provide community information is declining. At the same time, informal sources of local information are rapidly increasing. <br />
[[Image:Jtm-biblionews-square.JPG|frame|left|[]]]<br />
Libraries and legacy media always shared a common purpose -- helping us acquire the information we need to be engaged, informed (and entertained) citizens. They used different tools -- newspapers, broadcast stations and books. Now the tools are converging -- web search, data taxonomies, database creation and analysis, social networks -- as librarians and journalists together foster civic literacy and engagement.<br />
<br />
Librarians want to expand public access to accurate information, including trustworthy local news. So do journalists. How do we expand libraries as community information centers beyond books -- perhaps even beyond their four walls -- facilitating and engaging with journalists? What can libraries and journalists do -- together -- to foster improved access to community information?<br />
<br />
==THE CONVENING QUESTIONS==<br />
<h3>Thus, as the tools and mission converge, it's time to ask:<br> "What's possible at the intersection of libraries and journalism<br>that serves the information needs of communities and democracy?"</h3><br />
<br />
Via a pre-event social network, an evening agenda-setting dialogue, a day of roundtable planning and action commitments, we’ll discover what’s possible at the intersection of public spaces, open documents, citizen reporting and journalistic purpose. Questions we may ask: <br />
<br />
*What might libraries do to facilitate community social news networks? <br />
*Must free speech be absolute within a taxpayer-supported institution? <br />
*How do we define the boundaries between engagement and partisanship? <br />
*As cable fades, are libraries poised to become public-access media centers?<br />
*Should a library operate a news collective, non-profit or citizen-journalism service?<br />
*How can libraries help preserve a free digital information commons? <br />
<br />
==CO-SPONSORS== <br />
A growing list of co-sponsors include [http://www.journalismthatmatters.org Journalism That Matters,] the [http://civic.mit.edu MIT Center for Future Civic Media,] the American Library Association, the [http://www.mediagiraffe.org Media Giraffe Project]at UMass-Amherst and the [http://www.newenglandnews.org New England News Forum.]<br />
<br />
==EARLY COLLABORATORS==<br />
<br />
Among our collaborators are(alpha order): Joe Bergantino (New England Center for Investigative Reporting), Jessica Durkin (New America Foundation fellow), Mike Fancher (RJI / Seattle Times-retired), Fabrice Florin (NewsTrust), Marsha Iverson (member ALA, LLMA, public-relations specialist King County Library System), Alan Inouye (director, Office of Info Tech Policy, ALA), Nancy Kranich (Rutgers Univ., chair ALA Center for Public Life), Lorrie LeJeune and Andrew Whitacre (MIT C4FCM), Leigh Montgomery (Christian Science Monitor librarian), Donna Nicely (Knight Commission/Nashville Public Library), Patrick Phillips (Vineyard Voice), Josh Stearns (FreePress.net), Colin Rhinesmith (Univ. of Illinois), Bill Densmore, (New England News Forum/Media Giraffe Project/Reynolds Journalism Institute).<br />
<br />
<br />
<i>We chose those dates -- a Wednesday evening and full day on Thursday -- because that's immediately before the National Conference for Media Reform (NCMR), also in Boston. And you can register once for Beyond Books and be cross-registered to NCMR -- for one package price of only $175 between now and Feb. 28 -- almost four days of sessions and networking!</i><br />
<br />
How can libraries, educational institutions and reporters/editors collaborate using the web to foster the values, principles and<br />
purposes of journalism?<br />
<br />
How might public, university and school libraries expand their role as community information centers to inspire and perhaps equip citizens who want to practice and support the values, principles and purposes of journalism?<br />
<br />
==BACKGROUND DATA==<br />
<br />
(First two bullets excerpted from an Oct. 3, 2010 [http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2010-10-03-library-ipod_N.htm Associated Press story] available at the [http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2010-10-03-library-ipod_N.htm USAToday website.]) <br />
<br />
*The latest national data from the Institute of Museum and Library Services show that library visits and circulation climbed nearly 20% from 1999 to 2008. Since then, experts say, technology has continued to drive in-person visits, circulation and usage.<br><br />
*Now, the digital sphere is expanding: 82% of America's more than 16,000 public libraries have Wi-Fi up from 37% four years ago, according to the American Library Association. A growing number of libraries are launching mobile websites and smart-phone applications.<br><br />
*The John S. & James L. Knight Foundation is [http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6700336.html backing initiatives] to improve information access via libraries. The Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities includes a [http://www.knightcomm.org/recommendation7/ specific recommendation about libraries] and makes [http://librariesandtransliteracy.wordpress.com/2010/02/09/knight-commission-on-the-information-needs-of-communities-in-a-democracy-warns-of-%E2%80%9Csecond-class-citizens%E2%80%9D-in-the-digital-age/ repeated references to them.] Followup research for the commission cites the [http://www.knightcomm.org/news-leadership-3-0-new-report-examines-public-library%E2%80%99s-growing-role-as-online-civic-hub/ increasing civic-information role of libraries.]<br><br />
*In Oakland, Calif., the legal daily newspaper [http://www.oaklandvoices.us/2010/06/15/ov-press-release-12810/ partnered with the city and the West Oakland Public Library] to install a community-news center. [http://newshare.com/pdf/jtm-reynolds-oakland-library.pdf PDF-DOWNLOAD BACKGROUNDER]<br><br />
*The Seattle/Puget Sound Civic Communications Commons cites the [http://journalismthatmatters.org/blog/2010/07/15/civic-communications-commons/ "vital work of libraries as conveners, connectors, and providers of information and civic space,"] in its convening work.<br />
*A [http://www.pewinternet.org/Commentary/2007/December/The-new-information-order.aspx 2007 study] by the Pew Center found that [http://www.gmanews.tv/story/74681/young-adults-are-heavy-library-users-study-shows Young adults are heaviest library users, even though they are also on the web.]The Pew Internet and American Life Project and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/07/technology/07drill.html?_r=1&ref=pewinternetandamericanlifeproject conducted the study jointly.] One anecdotal finding: Libraries are increasingly creating social spaces within their walls. Pew's Lee Rainie [http://www.pewinternet.org/topics/Libraries.aspx tracks and speaks on library usage.]<br />
<br><br />
See also: [http://www.pewinternet.org/Presentations/2008/The-role-of-libraries-in-the-digital-age.aspx "The Role of Libraries in the Digital Age,"] (Pew/Lee Rainie), and the [http://www.pewinternet.org/Shared-Content/Data-Sets/2007/Libraries-Survey-2007.aspx RESEARCH DATASET.]<br />
<br />
==BASIC SCHEDULE==<br />
Wednesday -- Convene for afternoon networking session about 3 p.m. on Wed., April 6. Buffet supper at MIT, then an evening panel/program. <br />
Thursday -- Continental breakfast at 8:30 a.m.; program start at 9 a.m., run through 5 p.m. with snack breaks and box lunch. Birds-of-a-feather Dutch Treat (you pay) dinner arrangements facilitated. <br />
<br />
==REGISTRATION== <br />
<br />
*Wed/Thurs. -- $125.00 <br />
*Thurs. ONLY -- $75.00<br />
*Students -- $50.00 <br />
<br />
===Inclusive registration for the [http://conference.freepress.net National Conference for Media Reform] (April 8-10)===<br />
(includes both events, Wed.-Sunday) [http://ncmr11.eventbrite.com/ .]<br />
<br />
*Through March 25: $225.00 (combines BiblioNews & NCMR)<br />
<br />
<h2><b>[https://www.123signup.com/event?id=vvrfx REGISTER NOW]</b></h2><br />
<br />
===Lodging Options===<br />
<br />
A negotiated rate of $209/night is pending with the Cambridge Marriott (617-494-6600), two blocks from our meeting place. You will receive a code to access the rate with the email which confirms your registration to participate in BiblioNews. To access the rate, email a request to jtm@journalismthatmatters.org <br />
<br />
Other lodging information is available from:<br><br />
http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Biblionews-lodging<br />
<br />
==EXAMPLES OF INTEREST==<br />
<br />
"The Office for Information Technology Policy (OITP) at the ALA Washington Office is [http://www.wo.ala.org/districtdispatch/?p=5173 working on a policy brief] on the evolving newspaper industry and the implications for libraries. In a number of communities, the ability of newspapers to provide local community information is declining. At the same time, informal sources of local information are rapidly increasing. What are libraries doing to foster improved access to community information in the context of these changes?"<br />
<br />
ALA-cited issues:<br />
<br />
*Empowering patrons to create their own news and media at the grassroots level. Such endeavors might include enhancing patrons’ skills in creating do-it-yourself forms of media using technology tools and resources available at the library<br />
*Generating news-like content via community documentation projects hosted at a library<br />
*Partnering with other like-minded organizations to create news collectives, non-profits, or citizen journalism projects<br />
<br />
[http://www.wo.ala.org/districtdispatch/?p=5173 LINK TO OITP'S QUESTIONS]<br />
<br />
==[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Biblionews-resources RESOURCES/LINKS PAGE]==<br />
<br />
<h1>[https://www.123signup.com/event?id=vvrfx REGISTER NOW]</h1><br />
<br />
==SPACES SHOWN==<br />
<br />
[[Image:E15-LowerAtrium.png|250px|thumb|left|[]]]<br />
[[Image:E15-BartosTheater.png|250px|thumb|left|[]]]<br />
(Atrium is bigger than photo suggests)<br />
<br />
[[Category:Biblionews]]</div>Bill Densmorehttps://mgpwiki.mediagiraffe.org//index.php?title=Biblionews&diff=236899Biblionews2015-05-25T03:26:25Z<p>Bill Densmore: </p>
<hr />
<div>[[Image:Biblionews-banner.jpg|800px|thumb|left|BiblioNews.org -- Beyond Books: News, Literacy and Democracy and America's Libraries]]<br><br />
===Cambridge, Mass. (Boston), April 6-7, 2011 at the MIT Center for Future Civic Media===<br />
[[Image:Biblionews-thumbs.jpg|250px|thumb|right|[http://www.journalismthatmatters.org JTM home]]]<br />
<h4><br />
[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Biblionews-lodging LODGING INFO] / [http://journalismthatmatters.org/biblionews/whos-coming/ WHO'S COMING?] / [http://journalismthatmatters.org/biblionews/program/ TENTATIVE SCHEDULE] / [http://journalismthatmatters.org/biblionews EVENT HOME PAGE] / [http://journalismthatmatters.org/sessions/biblionews/blog/ BIBLIONEWS BLOG] / [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/images/c/cb/Biblionews.pdf DOWNLOAD POSTING NOTICE] / [http://groups.google.com/group/biblionews-boston/topics DISCUSSION LISTSERV] / [http://groups.google.com/group/biblionews-boston/subscribe SIGNUP FOR UPDATES] / [http://twitter.com/biblionews TWITTER: biblionews]/ [http://twitter.com/#!/search/%23biblionews FOLLOW HASHTAG #BIBLIONEWS] / [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/images/7/78/Biblionews-banner.jpg DOWNLOAD / POST BANNER ANNOUNCEMENT] / [http://www.flickr.com/photos/10407505@N03/sets/72157625889767926/ START OF PHOTOSET] / [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Biblionews ALL BEYOND BOOKS WIKI PAGES]</h4><br />
<br />
RECENT LINKS:<BR><br />
8http://www.alternet.org/books/why-libraries-matter-more-ever-age-google<br />
<br />
<br />
=BEYOND BOOKS WIKI LINKS=<br />
<h2><b><br />
*[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Biblionews-work WIKI WORK PAGES]<br />
*[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Biblionews-breakout BREAKOUT REPORT PAGES]<br />
*[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Biblionews-participants PARTICIPANT BIOS]<br />
*[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Biblionews GENERAL PAGES]<br />
</h2><br />
</b><br />
<br />
<br />
==THE CHALLENGE==<br />
[[Image:Jtm-logos.jpg|100px|thumb|right|[http://www.journalismthatmatters.org JTM home]]]<br />
<big><b>For three centuries, in American towns large and small, two institutions have uniquely marked a commitment to participatory democracy, learning and open inquiry -- our libraries and our free press. Today, as their tools change, their mission of civic engagement and information transparency converge. Economic and technology changes suggest an opportunity for collaboration among these two historic community information centers -- one largely public, one largely private. How?</b></big><br />
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Join [http://www.journalismthatmatters.org/biblionews Journalism That Matters] and other sponsors (below) on Wednesday and Thursday, April 6 and 7, 2011, for “Beyond Books: News, Literacy, Democracy and America’s Libraries,” (short title: "BiblioNews") a work session for civic engagement and information transparency, at MIT in Cambridge, preceding the National Conference for Media Reform (Fri-Sun) in nearby Boston. Location: [http://www.mit.edu/~cousot/MintaMartinLecture/directions.html Bartos Theatre,] MIT Center for Future Civic Media, Media Lab Building E15, Lower Atrium, 25 Carleton St., Cambridge MA 02142.</big> <br />
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==GOAL / CONVENING QUESTION==<br />
The capability of newspapers to provide community information is declining. At the same time, informal sources of local information are rapidly increasing. <br />
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Libraries and legacy media always shared a common purpose -- helping us acquire the information we need to be engaged, informed (and entertained) citizens. They used different tools -- newspapers, broadcast stations and books. Now the tools are converging -- web search, data taxonomies, database creation and analysis, social networks -- as librarians and journalists together foster civic literacy and engagement.<br />
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Librarians want to expand public access to accurate information, including trustworthy local news. So do journalists. How do we expand libraries as community information centers beyond books -- perhaps even beyond their four walls -- facilitating and engaging with journalists? What can libraries and journalists do -- together -- to foster improved access to community information?<br />
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==THE CONVENING QUESTIONS==<br />
<h3>Thus, as the tools and mission converge, it's time to ask:<br> "What's possible at the intersection of libraries and journalism<br>that serves the information needs of communities and democracy?"</h3><br />
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Via a pre-event social network, an evening agenda-setting dialogue, a day of roundtable planning and action commitments, we’ll discover what’s possible at the intersection of public spaces, open documents, citizen reporting and journalistic purpose. Questions we may ask: <br />
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*What might libraries do to facilitate community social news networks? <br />
*Must free speech be absolute within a taxpayer-supported institution? <br />
*How do we define the boundaries between engagement and partisanship? <br />
*As cable fades, are libraries poised to become public-access media centers?<br />
*Should a library operate a news collective, non-profit or citizen-journalism service?<br />
*How can libraries help preserve a free digital information commons? <br />
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==CO-SPONSORS== <br />
A growing list of co-sponsors include [http://www.journalismthatmatters.org Journalism That Matters,] the [http://civic.mit.edu MIT Center for Future Civic Media,] the American Library Association, the [http://www.mediagiraffe.org Media Giraffe Project]at UMass-Amherst and the [http://www.newenglandnews.org New England News Forum.]<br />
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==EARLY COLLABORATORS==<br />
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Among our collaborators are(alpha order): Joe Bergantino (New England Center for Investigative Reporting), Jessica Durkin (New America Foundation fellow), Mike Fancher (RJI / Seattle Times-retired), Fabrice Florin (NewsTrust), Marsha Iverson (member ALA, LLMA, public-relations specialist King County Library System), Alan Inouye (director, Office of Info Tech Policy, ALA), Nancy Kranich (Rutgers Univ., chair ALA Center for Public Life), Lorrie LeJeune and Andrew Whitacre (MIT C4FCM), Leigh Montgomery (Christian Science Monitor librarian), Donna Nicely (Knight Commission/Nashville Public Library), Patrick Phillips (Vineyard Voice), Josh Stearns (FreePress.net), Colin Rhinesmith (Univ. of Illinois), Bill Densmore, (New England News Forum/Media Giraffe Project/Reynolds Journalism Institute).<br />
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<i>We chose those dates -- a Wednesday evening and full day on Thursday -- because that's immediately before the National Conference for Media Reform (NCMR), also in Boston. And you can register once for Beyond Books and be cross-registered to NCMR -- for one package price of only $175 between now and Feb. 28 -- almost four days of sessions and networking!</i><br />
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How can libraries, educational institutions and reporters/editors collaborate using the web to foster the values, principles and<br />
purposes of journalism?<br />
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How might public, university and school libraries expand their role as community information centers to inspire and perhaps equip citizens who want to practice and support the values, principles and purposes of journalism?<br />
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==BACKGROUND DATA==<br />
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(First two bullets excerpted from an Oct. 3, 2010 [http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2010-10-03-library-ipod_N.htm Associated Press story] available at the [http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2010-10-03-library-ipod_N.htm USAToday website.]) <br />
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*The latest national data from the Institute of Museum and Library Services show that library visits and circulation climbed nearly 20% from 1999 to 2008. Since then, experts say, technology has continued to drive in-person visits, circulation and usage.<br><br />
*Now, the digital sphere is expanding: 82% of America's more than 16,000 public libraries have Wi-Fi up from 37% four years ago, according to the American Library Association. A growing number of libraries are launching mobile websites and smart-phone applications.<br><br />
*The John S. & James L. Knight Foundation is [http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6700336.html backing initiatives] to improve information access via libraries. The Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities includes a [http://www.knightcomm.org/recommendation7/ specific recommendation about libraries] and makes [http://librariesandtransliteracy.wordpress.com/2010/02/09/knight-commission-on-the-information-needs-of-communities-in-a-democracy-warns-of-%E2%80%9Csecond-class-citizens%E2%80%9D-in-the-digital-age/ repeated references to them.] Followup research for the commission cites the [http://www.knightcomm.org/news-leadership-3-0-new-report-examines-public-library%E2%80%99s-growing-role-as-online-civic-hub/ increasing civic-information role of libraries.]<br><br />
*In Oakland, Calif., the legal daily newspaper [http://www.oaklandvoices.us/2010/06/15/ov-press-release-12810/ partnered with the city and the West Oakland Public Library] to install a community-news center. [http://newshare.com/pdf/jtm-reynolds-oakland-library.pdf PDF-DOWNLOAD BACKGROUNDER]<br><br />
*The Seattle/Puget Sound Civic Communications Commons cites the [http://journalismthatmatters.org/blog/2010/07/15/civic-communications-commons/ "vital work of libraries as conveners, connectors, and providers of information and civic space,"] in its convening work.<br />
*A [http://www.pewinternet.org/Commentary/2007/December/The-new-information-order.aspx 2007 study] by the Pew Center found that [http://www.gmanews.tv/story/74681/young-adults-are-heavy-library-users-study-shows Young adults are heaviest library users, even though they are also on the web.]The Pew Internet and American Life Project and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/07/technology/07drill.html?_r=1&ref=pewinternetandamericanlifeproject conducted the study jointly.] One anecdotal finding: Libraries are increasingly creating social spaces within their walls. Pew's Lee Rainie [http://www.pewinternet.org/topics/Libraries.aspx tracks and speaks on library usage.]<br />
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See also: [http://www.pewinternet.org/Presentations/2008/The-role-of-libraries-in-the-digital-age.aspx "The Role of Libraries in the Digital Age,"] (Pew/Lee Rainie), and the [http://www.pewinternet.org/Shared-Content/Data-Sets/2007/Libraries-Survey-2007.aspx RESEARCH DATASET.]<br />
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==BASIC SCHEDULE==<br />
Wednesday -- Convene for afternoon networking session about 3 p.m. on Wed., April 6. Buffet supper at MIT, then an evening panel/program. <br />
Thursday -- Continental breakfast at 8:30 a.m.; program start at 9 a.m., run through 5 p.m. with snack breaks and box lunch. Birds-of-a-feather Dutch Treat (you pay) dinner arrangements facilitated. <br />
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==REGISTRATION== <br />
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*Wed/Thurs. -- $125.00 <br />
*Thurs. ONLY -- $75.00<br />
*Students -- $50.00 <br />
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===Inclusive registration for the [http://conference.freepress.net National Conference for Media Reform] (April 8-10)===<br />
(includes both events, Wed.-Sunday) [http://ncmr11.eventbrite.com/ .]<br />
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*Through March 25: $225.00 (combines BiblioNews & NCMR)<br />
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===Lodging Options===<br />
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A negotiated rate of $209/night is pending with the Cambridge Marriott (617-494-6600), two blocks from our meeting place. You will receive a code to access the rate with the email which confirms your registration to participate in BiblioNews. To access the rate, email a request to jtm@journalismthatmatters.org <br />
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Other lodging information is available from:<br><br />
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==EXAMPLES OF INTEREST==<br />
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"The Office for Information Technology Policy (OITP) at the ALA Washington Office is [http://www.wo.ala.org/districtdispatch/?p=5173 working on a policy brief] on the evolving newspaper industry and the implications for libraries. In a number of communities, the ability of newspapers to provide local community information is declining. At the same time, informal sources of local information are rapidly increasing. What are libraries doing to foster improved access to community information in the context of these changes?"<br />
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ALA-cited issues:<br />
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*Empowering patrons to create their own news and media at the grassroots level. Such endeavors might include enhancing patrons’ skills in creating do-it-yourself forms of media using technology tools and resources available at the library<br />
*Generating news-like content via community documentation projects hosted at a library<br />
*Partnering with other like-minded organizations to create news collectives, non-profits, or citizen journalism projects<br />
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[http://www.wo.ala.org/districtdispatch/?p=5173 LINK TO OITP'S QUESTIONS]<br />
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==[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Biblionews-resources RESOURCES/LINKS PAGE]==<br />
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[[Image:Mnc-logo.jpg|90px|Minnesota News Council]]<br />
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=Who's coming -- Participants in New Pamphleteers/New Reporters=<br />
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'''Here's who's signed up to participate in New Pamphleteers/New Reporters. Hotlinks go to submitted profiles and websites; "NARRATIVE" links to submitted narratives, if any. You can link to them from this page, or search on the wiki category [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Jtm-mn-participants "Jtm-mn-participants."]'''<br />
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#Achen, Jeff, online editor, [http://thisweeklive.com/ Thisweeklive.com,] / Minnesota SPJ director, Burnsville, Minn.<br />
# [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/profiles/index.php?action=profile&id=98 Anderson, Richard,] founder, VillageSoup.com, Camden/Rockland, Maine (via Skype) <br />
# [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/dardia Ardia, David,] director, [http://www.pbs.org/idealab/2008/04/cmlp-legal-guide-access-to-gov.html Berkman Citizen Media Law Project] at Harvard Law School [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-mn-bio-David_Ardia RESOURCES AVAILABLE]<br />
#[http://www.co-intelligence.org/tomatleebio.html Atlee, Tom,] founder, [http://www.hmcdisplay.com/staging.html portable stage] [http://www.co-intelligence.org The Co-Intelligence Institute,] Eugene, Ore. <br />
#[http://www.arniearnesen.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=9&Itemid=27 Arnesen, Arnie,] radio/TV talkmaster, professor, blogger, [http://www.politicalchowder.com PoliticalChowder.com,] Hopkinton, N.H.<br />
#Atlee, Tom, principal, [http://www.co-intelligence.org/CII-1.html Co-Intelligence Institute,] Seattle, Wash. <br />
#[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-mn-bio-Fairlight_Baer-Gutierrez Baer-Gutierrez, Fairlight,] editor, [http://denver.yourhub.com YourHub.com], Denver, Colo.<br />
#Baldin, Karen, business development director, [http://www.mediaprof.com/programs/misc-pro-liability.asp Media/Professional Insurance,] Newtown, Conn. <br />
# Baller, Clinton, Editor, [http://www.bhambuzz.org Birmingham Buzz,] Birmingham, Mich.<br />
#Barrentine, Jonathan, Minnesota e-Democracy Project, Minneapolis, Minn.<br />
#Bauer, Sarah, director, [http://news-council.org/ Minnesota News Council,] Minneapolis, Minn<br />
#[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-mn-bio-Nicole_Belanger Belanger, Nicole,] multimedia editor, The Media Giraffe Project at UMass, Amherst, Mass.<br />
#[http://www.iconnectdots.com/about/ Borsch, Steve,] blogger and founder, [http://www.minnov8.com Minnov8.com,] Eden Prairie, Minn.<br />
#[http://minnesota.publicradio.org/tools/search/author/author_collection.php?aut_id=30140 Caputo, Michael,] analyst, [http://minnesota.publicradio.org/publicinsightjournalism/ Public Insight Journalism,] Minnesota Public Radio, Saint Paul, Minn. <br />
#Carder, Justin, owner, Capitol Hill Seattle, Seattle, Wash.<br />
#Chakoian, Lynn, owner/editor / [http://www.kicktime.org KickTime] -- news for the Kickapoo Valley, Viroqua, Wis. <br />
#Chinni, Dante, director, [http://www.patchworknation.org Patchwork Nation Project,] Christian Science Monitor, Washington, D.C.<br />
#Crist, Lakeshia, client services manager, [http://www.neighbors4neighbors.org/n4n/index.php?aboutus CBS4 Neighbors 4 Neighbors,] Miami, Fla. <br />
#Chakoian, Lynn, local blogger, KickTime.org, Viroqua, Wis. <br />
# [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/profiles/index.php?action=profile&id=275 Clift, Stephen,] E-Democracy.org, local issues forums, Minneapolis, Minn.<br />
#[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-sv-bio-Melissa_Cornick-Horyn Cornick-Horyn, Melissa,] news content producer, Sunnyside, N.Y.<br />
#[http://www.mediabloggers.org/robert-cox-bio Cox, Robert,] Media Bloggers Association, New Rochelle, N.Y.<br />
#Crist, Lakeshia, client services manager, Neighbors 4 Neighbors, WFOR-CBS, Miami, Fla. <br />
#Curtiss, Tim, CEO, [http://www.eworldwire.com/pressreleases/18365 AGS Software Development Inc.] /[http://www.lakewoodobserver/ The Lakewood Observer,] Lakewood, Ohio <br />
#[http://newshare.typepad.com/about.html Densmore, Bill,] co-collaborator, [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Citizen_media Greylock Regional Citizen Media <br />
#[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/profiles/index.php?action=profile&id=335 Dougherty, Geoff,] founder/editor, [http://www.chitowndailynews.org/ ChiTown Daily News] (participated by Skype)<br />
#[http://densmore.newshare.com/about.html Densmore, Bill,] drector, [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/about The Media Giraffe Project] and [http://www.greylocknews.com GreylockNews.com,] Williamstown, Mass. <br />
#[http://journalism.missouri.edu/faculty/margaret-duffy.html Duffy, Margaret,] assoc. dean, Missouri School of Journalism, Columbia, Mo. <br />
#[http://hometownfocus.us/main.asp?ArticleID=59&SectionID=34&SubSectionID=301 Dallas, Jean,] executive editor, [http://www.hometownfocus.us Hometown Focus,] Virginia, Minn.<br />
#Durham, Scott, Instivate, Seattle, Wash. <br />
#[http://dowire.org/wiki/Symposium_speakers#Tim_Erickson Erickson, Tim,] program director, Minnesota e-Democracy Project, Minneapolis, Minn. [http://www.twitter.com/edemtim Twitter] <span class="plainlinks">[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrXJmOy0NsE <span style="color:black;font-weight:normal; text-decoration:none!important; background:none!important; text-decoration:none;">global community communications alliance</span>]<br />
#[http://www.schiffhardin.com/ToddREskelsen.htm Eskelsen, Todd R.,] attorney/partner, Schiff Hardin LLP, Washington, D.C.<br />
#[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-sv-bio-Linda_Fantin Fantin, Linda,] associate director, Center for Innovation in Journalism, American Public Media, Saint Paul, Minn. (formerly Salt Lake Tribune) <br />
#[http://www.mytopiacafe.com/contact_us.html Ferrier, Michelle,] editor, [http://www.mytopiacafe.com My Topia Cafe, Daytona Beach, Fla. <br />
#[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-mn-bio-Leslie_Fishburn_Clark Fishburn Clark, Leslie,] community radio reporter, Albuquerque, N.M. <br />
#[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-dc-Margaret_Freivogel Freivogel, Margaret,] editor, [http://www.stlbeacon.org/ St. Louis Beacon,] St. Louis, Mo. <br />
#[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-sv-bio-Mark_Fuerst Fuerst, Mark,] consultant, Public Media Management / [http://www.integratedmedia.org/ Integrated Media Association,] Rhinebeck, N.Y.<br />
#[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/profiles/index.php?action=profile&id=79 Galant, Debra,] editor-in-chief/founder,[http://www.baristanet.com BaristaNet,] Glen Ridge, N.J.<br />
#[http://dangillmor.com Gillmor, Dan] / Arizona State Univ.; fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School) / ex-SJM columnist <br />
#[http://spap-oop.blogspot.com/ Grier, Tish,] community editor, [http://www.placeblogger.com Placeblogger.com,] Easthampton, Mass.<br />
#[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/profiles/index.php?action=profile&id=364 Hall, Scott,] community access coordinator, [http://www.mylife.com/gordonkochman Kochman Wilmette] [http://www.kaxe.org/ Northern Community Radio/KAXE,] Grand Rapids, Minn.<br />
#Hamilton, Harriet, reporter, Breckenridge, Colo. <br />
# [http://www.sjmc.umn.edu/aboutus/fac_khansen.html Hansen, Kathleen,] director, Minnesota Journalism Center, and [http://www.pbs.org/idealab/kathleen_hansen/ "Playing the News" project,] Minneapolis, Minn.<br />
#Hanson, Steve, [http://www.uppitywis.org Uppity Wisconsin], [http://www.chippewaguide.com Chppewa Guide] and owner, [http://www.cruiskeenconsulting.com Cruiskeen Consulting LLC,] Menomonie, Wis.<br />
#[http://lakeherman.org/coralhei/resume.html Heidelberger, Cory,] eDemocracy activist and blogger, [http://madvilletimes.blogspot.com/2008/02/eggheads-in-pierre-students-present.html Madville Times,] Lake Herman, S.D. <br />
#[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-mn-bio-Edward_Hodgman Hodgman,] Edward, executive director, [http://www.understandinggov.org Understanding Government,] Washington, D.C.<br />
#[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-dc-Peggy_Holman Holman, Peggy] / principal / The Open Circle Company / Bellevue, Wash. / author / change facilitator / [http://www.journalismthatmatters.org Journalism That Matters] co-convenor<br />
#[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-dc-Cody_Howard Howard, Cody,] director, 6News and [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Citizen_journalism_training_kansas Citizen Journalism Academy,] The World Co., Lawrence, Kan.<br />
#[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/profiles/index.php?action=profile&id=434 Hughes, George "Pat",] owner, [http://www.paulding.com Paulding.com] / NeoMaxCom LLC, Dallas, Georgia<br />
#[http://tcdailyplanet.net/node/9339 Iggers, Jeremy,] [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/profiles/index.php?action=profile&id=323 executive director,] Twin Cities Media Alliance/TC Daily Planet, Minneapolis, Minn.<br />
#Jannene, Jeramey, student/entrepreneur, Milwaukee School of Engineering, Milwaukee, Wis. - [http://freshcoastventures.com Fresh Coast Ventures, LLC] - Hyperlocal news site - [http://urbanmilwaukee.com UrbanMilwaukee.com]<br />
#Johnston, Jane, founder/publisher, The Newburgh Advocate, Newburgh, N.Y.<br />
#http://www.blandinfoundation.org/staff/bio-publicpolicy.cfm Joselyn, Bernadine,] public-policy & engagement director, [http://www.blandinfoundation.org/html/about.cfm The Blandin Foundation,] Grand Rapids, Minn. <br />
#Kaner, Elyse, reporter/arts editor, [http://abcnewspapers.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2822&Itemid=1 ABC Newspapers,] Coon Rapids, Minn. <br />
#King, Donald, Wartburg College professor, blogger, [http://www.csmonitor.com/patchworknation/ PatchWorkNation.org,] Rock Rapids, Iowa<br />
#Kirtley, Jane, director, Silha Center for the Study of Media Ethics and Law [http://silha.umn.edu], University of Minnesota<br />
#[http://www.linkedin.com/in/danknauss Knauss, Dan], local web designer/developer/consultant DBA [http://www.newlocalmedia.com/ New Local Media] and founder of [http://www.riverwestneighborhood.org/ Riverwest Neighborhood Network], Milwaukee, Wis. ([http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-mn-bio-Dan Knauss Bio page here at JTM])<br />
# [http://www.minnpost.com/about/ Kramer, Joel, CEO and editor, [http://www.minnpost.com], Minneapolis, Minn.<br />
#LaPlant, Becky, public policy/engagement, [http://www.blandinfoundation.com The Blandin Foundation,] Grand Rapids, Minn. <br />
#Lund, Diane, health-policy researcher/newsletter publisher, Portland, Ore. <br />
#Ma, Olivia, news manager, [http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080520-news-unfiltered-youtube-embraces-citizen-journalism.html YouTube Citizen News Channel,] San Bruno, Calif. [http://www.youtube.com/blog?entry=ChVCKm2c2qQ (VIDEO)]<br />
#[http://www.joshuamack.com Mack, Joshua,] vp-network, [http://outside.in/Minneapolis_MN Outside.in,] Brooklyn, N.Y.<br />
#Magnuson, Kathy, co-Publisher, [http://www.womenspress.com Minnesota Women's Press,] Saint Paul, Minn. [http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/2005/04/30_cunninghamg_womenspress/ (story)]<br />
#Maguire, Miles, founder, [http://www.oshkoshnews.org Oshkosh Comunity News Network Inc.,]journalism professor, UW-Oshkosh, Oshkosh, Wis.<br />
#[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Sarah_Majka Majka, Sarah,] associate editor, The Media Giraffe Project at UMass, Amherst, Mass.<br />
#Maristany Krauss, Nicole, producer, [http://www.neighbors4neighbors.org/n4n/index.php?aboutus CBS4 Neighbors 4 Neighbors,] Miami, Fla.<br />
#Mauter, Erica, co-captain, [http://minneapolis.metblogs.com Minneapolis Metblogs,] Eden Prairie, Minn. <br />
#[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/artman/publish/article_576.shtml McGill, Doug,] director, [http://www.mcgillreport.org/largemouth.htm Largemouth Citizen Journalism Workshops,] Rochester, Minn.<br />
#[http://www.newschallenge.org/signcasts Mcnamara, Brein,] technology coordinator, [http://www.minnesotanorthstaracademy.org Minnesota North Star Academy,] St. Paul, Minn. <br />
#[http://ptsdcombat.blogspot.com/2006/12/moving-nation-to-care-author-bio.html Meagher, Illona,] author/writer, [http://www.epluribusmedia.org/ ePluribus Media,] Caledonia, Ill. (did not attend)<br />
#[http://mlncn.com/node/448 Melançon, Benjamin], web developer with [http://AgaricDesign.com/ Agaric Design Collective], [http://pbs.org/idealab blogger], Boston area, person who gives a damn<br />
#Montgomery, Maggie, general manager [http://www.kaxe.org/ KAXE-Northern Community Radio,] Grand Rapids, Minn.<br />
#Myers, Kate, Event staff intern, Minnesota News Council, Minneapolis, Minn.<br />
#[http://humankindmedia.typepad.com/my_weblog/AboutAboutChris.html Naff, Chris,] coach and new-media blogger, QOE Management Consulting and [http://humankindmedia.typepad.com/my_weblog/AboutAboutChris.html HumanKind Media,] Alamo, Calif.<br />
#Nagy, Antonia, [http://www.ilexfoundation.org/ The Ilex Foundation,] Boston <br />
#[http://www.haven2.com O'Connor, Mike,] co-founder of [http://www.nfcb.org National Federation of Community Broadcasters,] Washington, DC; founder of community radion station [http://www.wort.org WORT-FM] Madison, WI; local-media fanboy and owner of the domain name PLACE.COM.<br />
#[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/profiles/index.php?action=profile&id=325 Olsen, Chuck,] founder, [http://theuptake.org The Uptake,], Minneapolis, Minn. <br />
#Opoti, Julia,writer, Twin Cities Daily Planet, Minneapolis, Minn. <br />
# [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/profiles/index.php?action=profile&id=95 Orren, Michael,] founder, PegasusNews.com, Dallas-Ft. Worth<br />
#[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Memphis-chris-peck Peck, Chris,] editor, The [Memphis] Commercial Appeal, former president, American Society of Newspaper Editors and AP Managing Editors; co-convener, Journalism That Matters / Memphis, Tenn. (tentative) <br />
#[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/User:Patrick_Phillips Phillips, Patrick], founder and executive director, [http://vineyardvoice.org The Vineyard Voice,] West Tisbury, Mass.<br />
#Pommier, Christopher, Minneapolis, Minn.<br />
#Pope, Priscilla, student, Univ. of Minn-Duluth, Roseville, Minn. <br />
#[http://tinyurl.com/2hdv88 Record, Tracy,] editor/co-publisher, [http://westseattleblog.com/ West Seattle Blog,] Seattle, Wash. <br />
#Reilly, Patrick, attorney/founder, Intellectual Property Society, Aptos, Calif.<br />
#Russell, Brian, blogger, Chapel Hill, N.C. <br />
#[http://www.j-lab.org/janbio.shtml Schaffer, Jan,] J-Lab/Institute for Interactive Media, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, Md.<br />
#[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-mn-bio-Steven_Schild Schild, Steven,] associate professor, journalism, Sant Mary's Univ. of Minnesota, Winona, Minn.<br />
#Shawver, Natascha, [http://www.mainstreetproject.org/about.html Main Street Project,] Minneapolis, Minn. <br />
#[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-mn-bio-Jim_Shaffer Shaffer, Jim,] dean, Univ. of Maine business school, ex-MSM publisher, Portland, Maine (JTM alum)<br />
#[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Memphis-stephen-silha Silha, Stephen,] Media/Journalism That Matters, director, Washington News Council, former reporter, Christian Science Monitor and Children’s Express, co-convener, [http://www.journalismthatmatters.org Journalism that Matters] / Vashon Island, Wash. Also: http://www.goodnewsgooddeeds.org <br />
#Sinreich, Ruby, editor/owner, [http://www.orangepolitics.org OrangePolitics.org,] Chapel Hill, N.C. <br />
#Snow, Marta, Ilex Foundation, Revere, Mass. <br />
#Sorcan, Polly Ann, school-board director, Eveleth-Gilbert Public Schools, Eveleth, Minn. <br />
#Sorensen, Sally, proprietor, [http://www.bluestemprairie.com Bluestem Prairie,] Hutchinson, Minn.<br />
#[http://kathystone.squarespace.com/welcome/ Stone, Kathlyn,] independent journalist, Saint Paul, Minn. (FP member)<br />
#[http://www.blueridgemuse.com/files/about Thompson, Doug,] owner/blogger, [http://www.blueridgemuse.com Blue Ridge Muse] and [http://www.capitolhillblue.com/ Capitol Hill Blue,] Floyd, Va. <br />
#[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/profiles/index.php?action=profile&id=277 Thompson, Matt,] EPIC co-creator / deputy web editor, The Star Tribune, Minneapolis, Minn. (did not attend) <br />
#[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/profiles/index.php?action=profile&id=19 Tippett, Mike,] founder/CEO, NowPublic.com (tentative) <br />
#Treacy, Mary, executive director, Minn. Coalition on Government Information, Minneapolis, Minn.<br />
#Trevino, Marisa, USA Today commentator / publisher, [http://www.latinalista.net Latina Lista], Dallas, Texas / [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-dc-interviews#Interview_with_Marisa_Trevino_by_Angie_Bado (JTM-DC interview)] / (did not attend)<br />
#Turck, Mary, editor, Twin Cities Daily Planet, Minneapolis, Minn. <br />
#[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/profiles/index.php?action=profile&id=91 Weber, Jonathan,] founder/CEO, [http://www.newwest.net NewWest.net], Missoula, Mont. <br />
#Waisbren, Harry, co-host, The Forward Forum [http://www.forwardforum.net radio show] and [http://www.madprogress.blogspot.com/ blog,] Madison, Wis <br />
#Webster, Tony, political-science student, Univ. of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minn. <br />
#[http://wigleyandassociates.com/about Wigley, Griff,] Consultant, weapons of mass collaboration; co-host of a community-oriented blog and podcast called [http://www.locallygrownnorthfield.org Locally Grown,]; co-founder of [http://northfield.org Northfield.org/Northfield Citizens Online,] in Northfield, Minn.<br />
# [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/profiles/index.php?action=profile&id=318 Williams, Eesha,] author, [http://www.dollarsandsense.org/bookstore/grassrootsjournalism.html ''Grassroots Journalism'',] Brattleboro, Vt.<br />
#Williams, Ross, coordinator, Northern Community Radio Community Internet Project, Grand Rapids, Minn. <br />
#Wilson, Phil, radio programmer, Lakeville, Minn. <br />
# [http://www.kennesaw.edu/communication/witt.shtml Witt, Leonard,] Robert D. Fowler Distinguished Chair in Communication, Kennesaw State University / [http://pjnet.org/ PJNet.org], Representative Journalism Project <br />
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See also:<br />
* [[JTM-MN participants by state]]<br />
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[[Category:Jtm-mn-participants]]</div>Bill Densmorehttps://mgpwiki.mediagiraffe.org//index.php?title=Jtm-mn-program&diff=236897Jtm-mn-program2015-04-20T21:20:44Z<p>Bill Densmore: Protected "Jtm-mn-program": hacking [edit=sysop:move=sysop] [cascading]</p>
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[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/jtm-mn-participants WHO'S COMING] . . . <br />
[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-mn-program PROGRAM/AGENDA] . . . <br />
[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-mn-topics BEST-PRACTICE TOPICS] . . . <br />
[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-mn-hosts DISCUSSION HOSTS] . . . <br />
[https://www.123signup.com/event?id=tzfmb REGISTER NOW] . . . <br />
[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-mn-lodging LODGING/TRAVEL] . . . <br />
[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-mn-stipends STIPENDS] . . . <br />
[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-mn HOME PAGE]. . . <br />
[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-mn-links STUDY LINKS] . . . <br />
[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-mn-sponsors SPONSORS] . . . <br />
[http://maps.google.com/maps?q=200+Oak+St+SE,+Minneapolis,+M.N.+55455,+USA&sa=X&oi=map&ct=title VIEW MAP] . . . [http://jtm2008.ning.com COLLABORATION SITE] . . . <br />
[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-mn-interviews PRE-CONVENING INTERVIEWS] . . . <br />
[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-mn-skype SKYPE SESSIONS]. . . [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-mn-learning PRE-CONVENING LEARNING]. . . <br />
[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-mn-teaching PRE-CONVENING TEACHING] . . . <br />
[http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/14959196.rss TWITTER RSS FEED] . . . <br />
[http://twitter.com/jtmstream TWITTER LINK]<br />
<br />
[[Image:Jtm-logo-wide.jpg|300px|[http://www.journalismthatmatters.org Principal convenor]]]<br />
[http://www.mnc.org [[Image:Mjc-logo.gif|100px|Minnesota Journalism Center]]]<br />
[[Image:Mnc-logo.jpg|90px|Minnesota News Council]]<br />
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=Program and Agenda=<br />
<br />
America’s new online citizen-journalists are inventing a new business and a new passion — the business of building local, literate, digital domains on the web where community and commerce flourish, But efforts — and structure — to share best practices are only just emerging.<br />
<br />
<br />
The agenda will be a mix of practical workshops on specific best practices and open, circle-round discussions. There will be ample opportunity for networking, and for planning collaboration. <br />
<br />
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====<u>Wed., June 4</u><br>====<br />
*Noon -- Registration opens, [http://www.alumnicenter.umn.edu/events/parking.html McNamara Alumni Center,] Univ. of Minnesota <br><br />
*1:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. -- [''Citizens at the Gates: A Research Briefing'' -- [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-mn-duffy (Margaret Duffy,] Univ. of Missouri)<br><ul><ul>with Matt Thompson, Mary Turck and Jan Schaffer. [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-mn-program-duffy (TEXT DETAILS AND VIDEO)]</ul></ul><br />
*1:30-2:30 Moderated conversation about the research<br />
*2:30 p.m.-3:00 p.m. -- Additional registration for late arrivals; coffee/tea/juice/cookie break<br />
*3:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. -- [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-mn-opening Opening Circle -- Expectations/Expertise]<br />
Including an brief conversation about [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-mn-society "A Passion for Place," Concepts for the American Society of News and Community Forums (ASNCF).]<br />
*5:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m. -- Break<br />
*6:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. -- Informal "Stand-up" Dinner <br />
*7:00 p.m.-7:45 p.m. -- [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-mn-speaker Talk/discussion]: Joel Kramer, editor, [http://www.minnpost.com MinnPost.com] and others TBD -- ''Changing Roles in the Emerging News Ecology'' <br />
*7:45 p.m.-9:00 p.m. -- [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-mn-topics The Coffee House -- Speed topics]<br />
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====<u>Thurs., June 5</u>====<br />
<br />
<hr><br />
<h4>[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-mn-skype SKYPE CONCURRENT SESSIONS]</h4><br />
<hr><br />
<br />
*8 a.m.- 8:45 a.m. -- Continental breakfast and networking <br />
*8:50 a.m. -- BRIEFING: Citizen Journalism at Univ. of Minn. -- [http://www.sjmc.umn.edu/aboutus/director_greeting.html Albert Tims]<br />
*9 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. -- OPENING TALK: "Setting the Civic Agenda" -- [http://www.thenation.com/directory/bios/john_nichols John Nichols]<br />
*9:30 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. -- Morning check-in/agenda setting<br />
*10:15 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. -- Break<br />
*10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. -- First breakouts and roundtable discussions<br />
*11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. -- Second breakouts and roundtable discussions<br />
*12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. -- Luncheon<br />
*1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. -- Third breakouts and roundtable discussions<br />
*2:30 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. -- Break <br />
*2:45 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. -- Reports from the sessions <br />
*3:15 p.m.-4:15 p.m. -- Next step breakout discussions / form ASNCF?<br />
*4:15 p.m.-5:15 p.m. -- Closing session<br />
*5:15 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. -- Break <br />
*5:30 p.m. - 6:15 p.m. -- Hor d'oeuvres reception <br />
*6:30 p.m. - ???? -- Meetup with NCMR principals; entertainment<br />
<br />
====<u>Fri., June 6 (optional taping session/Minnesota Public Radio)</u>====<br />
*8:00 a.m. -- Bus departs from McNamara Center/Day's Inn to St. Paul studio's of Minnesota Public Radio<br />
*8:30 a.m. -- 10:00 a.m. -- Videotaping of "The Passion of Place," a discussion about the motivation, passions, fears and successes of local online news/community entrepreneurs, facilitated and videotaped for public distribution. (Up to 20 attending local placebloggers/entrepreneurs invited to participate).<br />
*10:45 a.m. -- Bus arrives back at McNamara/Day's Inn<br />
*11:00 a.m. -- Conference ends<br />
<br />
[[Category:Jtm-mn]]</div>Bill Densmorehttps://mgpwiki.mediagiraffe.org//index.php?title=Jtm-mn-program&diff=236896Jtm-mn-program2015-04-20T21:20:11Z<p>Bill Densmore: </p>
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<div>http://www.mediagiraffe.org/images/pamphleteers.jpg<br><hr><br />
[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/jtm-mn-participants WHO'S COMING] . . . <br />
[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-mn-program PROGRAM/AGENDA] . . . <br />
[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-mn-topics BEST-PRACTICE TOPICS] . . . <br />
[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-mn-hosts DISCUSSION HOSTS] . . . <br />
[https://www.123signup.com/event?id=tzfmb REGISTER NOW] . . . <br />
[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-mn-lodging LODGING/TRAVEL] . . . <br />
[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-mn-stipends STIPENDS] . . . <br />
[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-mn HOME PAGE]. . . <br />
[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-mn-links STUDY LINKS] . . . <br />
[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-mn-sponsors SPONSORS] . . . <br />
[http://maps.google.com/maps?q=200+Oak+St+SE,+Minneapolis,+M.N.+55455,+USA&sa=X&oi=map&ct=title VIEW MAP] . . . [http://jtm2008.ning.com COLLABORATION SITE] . . . <br />
[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-mn-interviews PRE-CONVENING INTERVIEWS] . . . <br />
[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-mn-skype SKYPE SESSIONS]. . . [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-mn-learning PRE-CONVENING LEARNING]. . . <br />
[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-mn-teaching PRE-CONVENING TEACHING] . . . <br />
[http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/14959196.rss TWITTER RSS FEED] . . . <br />
[http://twitter.com/jtmstream TWITTER LINK]<br />
<br />
[[Image:Jtm-logo-wide.jpg|300px|[http://www.journalismthatmatters.org Principal convenor]]]<br />
[http://www.mnc.org [[Image:Mjc-logo.gif|100px|Minnesota Journalism Center]]]<br />
[[Image:Mnc-logo.jpg|90px|Minnesota News Council]]<br />
<hr><br />
=Program and Agenda=<br />
<br />
America’s new online citizen-journalists are inventing a new business and a new passion — the business of building local, literate, digital domains on the web where community and commerce flourish, But efforts — and structure — to share best practices are only just emerging.<br />
<br />
<br />
The agenda will be a mix of practical workshops on specific best practices and open, circle-round discussions. There will be ample opportunity for networking, and for planning collaboration. <br />
<br />
<br />
====<u>Wed., June 4</u><br>====<br />
*Noon -- Registration opens, [http://www.alumnicenter.umn.edu/events/parking.html McNamara Alumni Center,] Univ. of Minnesota <br><br />
*1:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. -- [''Citizens at the Gates: A Research Briefing'' -- [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-mn-duffy (Margaret Duffy,] Univ. of Missouri)<br><ul><ul>with Matt Thompson, Mary Turck and Jan Schaffer. [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-mn-program-duffy (TEXT DETAILS AND VIDEO)]</ul></ul><br />
*1:30-2:30 Moderated conversation about the research<br />
*2:30 p.m.-3:00 p.m. -- Additional registration for late arrivals; coffee/tea/juice/cookie break<br />
*3:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. -- [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-mn-opening Opening Circle -- Expectations/Expertise]<br />
Including an brief conversation about [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-mn-society "A Passion for Place," Concepts for the American Society of News and Community Forums (ASNCF).]<br />
*5:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m. -- Break<br />
*6:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. -- Informal "Stand-up" Dinner <br />
*7:00 p.m.-7:45 p.m. -- [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-mn-speaker Talk/discussion]: Joel Kramer, editor, [http://www.minnpost.com MinnPost.com] and others TBD -- ''Changing Roles in the Emerging News Ecology'' <br />
*7:45 p.m.-9:00 p.m. -- [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-mn-topics The Coffee House -- Speed topics]<br />
<br />
====<u>Thurs., June 5</u>====<br />
<br />
<hr><br />
<h4>[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-mn-skype SKYPE CONCURRENT SESSIONS]</h4><br />
<hr><br />
<br />
*8 a.m.- 8:45 a.m. -- Continental breakfast and networking <br />
*8:50 a.m. -- BRIEFING: Citizen Journalism at Univ. of Minn. -- [http://www.sjmc.umn.edu/aboutus/director_greeting.html Albert Tims]<br />
*9 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. -- OPENING TALK: "Setting the Civic Agenda" -- [http://www.thenation.com/directory/bios/john_nichols John Nichols]<br />
*9:30 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. -- Morning check-in/agenda setting<br />
*10:15 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. -- Break<br />
*10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. -- First breakouts and roundtable discussions<br />
*11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. -- Second breakouts and roundtable discussions<br />
*12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. -- Luncheon<br />
*1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. -- Third breakouts and roundtable discussions<br />
*2:30 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. -- Break <br />
*2:45 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. -- Reports from the sessions <br />
*3:15 p.m.-4:15 p.m. -- Next step breakout discussions / form ASNCF?<br />
*4:15 p.m.-5:15 p.m. -- Closing session<br />
*5:15 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. -- Break <br />
*5:30 p.m. - 6:15 p.m. -- Hor d'oeuvres reception <br />
*6:30 p.m. - ???? -- Meetup with NCMR principals; entertainment<br />
<br />
====<u>Fri., June 6 (optional taping session/Minnesota Public Radio)</u>====<br />
*8:00 a.m. -- Bus departs from McNamara Center/Day's Inn to St. Paul studio's of Minnesota Public Radio<br />
*8:30 a.m. -- 10:00 a.m. -- Videotaping of "The Passion of Place," a discussion about the motivation, passions, fears and successes of local online news/community entrepreneurs, facilitated and videotaped for public distribution. (Up to 20 attending local placebloggers/entrepreneurs invited to participate).<br />
*10:45 a.m. -- Bus arrives back at McNamara/Day's Inn<br />
*11:00 a.m. -- Conference ends<br />
<br />
[[Category:Jtm-mn]]</div>Bill Densmorehttps://mgpwiki.mediagiraffe.org//index.php?title=Solutions-journalism&diff=236895Solutions-journalism2015-03-19T20:29:55Z<p>Bill Densmore: </p>
<hr />
<div>=The start of some links and discussion about "solutions" journalism=<br />
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<h4><br />
*[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-possibilty-journalism Solutions journalism discussion at a JTM conference in Seattle, Jan. 8, 2010]<br />
*[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Solutions-journalism-van-gelder Sarah van Gelder on how she "evolved" to solutions journalism after a trip to India]<br />
</h4><br />
<hr><br />
<big>In June, 2013, the National Conference for Media Reform in Denver, Colo., included a panel moderated by Sarah van Gelder, editor-in-chief of Yes! Magazine, exploring the emerging concept of [http://conference.freepress.net/session/making-media-making-change-journalism-solves-problems solutions journalism.] Listen to an [http://newshare.com/journalism/ncmr-solutions-journalism-04-06-13.mp3 MP3 AUDIO RECORDING] of the session.</div>Bill Densmorehttps://mgpwiki.mediagiraffe.org//index.php?title=Solutions-journalism&diff=236894Solutions-journalism2015-03-19T20:29:46Z<p>Bill Densmore: </p>
<hr />
<div>=The start of some links and discussion about "solutions" journalism=<br />
<br />
<br />
<h4><br />
*[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-possibilty-journalism Solutions journalism discussion at a JTM conference in Seattle, Jan. 8, 2010]<br />
*[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Solutions-journalism-van-gelder Sarah van Gelder on how she "evolved" to solutions journalism after a trip to India]<br />
</h4><br />
<hr><br />
<strong>In June, 2013, the National Conference for Media Reform in Denver, Colo., included a panel moderated by Sarah van Gelder, editor-in-chief of Yes! Magazine, exploring the emerging concept of [http://conference.freepress.net/session/making-media-making-change-journalism-solves-problems solutions journalism.] Listen to an [http://newshare.com/journalism/ncmr-solutions-journalism-04-06-13.mp3 MP3 AUDIO RECORDING] of the session.</div>Bill Densmorehttps://mgpwiki.mediagiraffe.org//index.php?title=Solutions-journalism&diff=236893Solutions-journalism2015-03-19T20:29:30Z<p>Bill Densmore: </p>
<hr />
<div>=The start of some links and discussion about "solutions" journalism=<br />
<br />
<br />
<h4><br />
*[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-possibilty-journalism Solutions journalism discussion at a JTM conference in Seattle, Jan. 8, 2010]<br />
*[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Solutions-journalism-van-gelder Sarah van Gelder on how she "evolved" to solutions journalism after a trip to India]<br />
</h4><br />
<hr><br />
In June, 2013, the National Conference for Media Reform in Denver, Colo., included a panel moderated by Sarah van Gelder, editor-in-chief of Yes! Magazine, exploring the emerging concept of [http://conference.freepress.net/session/making-media-making-change-journalism-solves-problems solutions journalism.] Listen to an [http://newshare.com/journalism/ncmr-solutions-journalism-04-06-13.mp3 MP3 AUDIO RECORDING] of the session.</div>Bill Densmorehttps://mgpwiki.mediagiraffe.org//index.php?title=Solutions-journalism&diff=236892Solutions-journalism2015-03-19T20:29:02Z<p>Bill Densmore: </p>
<hr />
<div>=The start of some links and discussion about "solutions" journalism=<br />
<br />
<br />
<h4><br />
*[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-possibilty-journalism Solutions journalism discussion at a JTM conference in Seattle, Jan. 8, 2010]<br />
*[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Solutions-journalism-van-gelder Sarah van Gelder on how she "evolved" to solutions journalism after a trip to India]<br />
</h4><br />
<hr><br />
In June, 2013, the National Conference for Media Reform in Denver, Colo., included a panel moderated by Sarah van Gelder, editor-in-chief of Yes! Magazine, exploring the emerging concept of [http://conference.freepress.net/session/making-media-making-change-journalism-solves-problems solutions journalism.] Listen to an [ncmr-solutions-journalism-04-06-13.mp3 MP3 AUDIO RECORDING] of the session.</div>Bill Densmorehttps://mgpwiki.mediagiraffe.org//index.php?title=Solutions-journalism-van-gelder&diff=236891Solutions-journalism-van-gelder2015-03-19T20:11:39Z<p>Bill Densmore: /* Extracted by Bill Densmore */</p>
<hr />
<div>=Sarah van Gelder's evolutionary journey to the practice of "solutions journalism"=<br />
<br />
[[Image:Sarah-van-gelder1.jpg|300px|thumb|right|]]<br />
<br />
===Extracted by Bill Densmore===<br />
<br />
<h4>RELATED LINKS:<br><br />
*[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-possibilty-journalism Solutions journalism discussion at a JTM conference in Seattle, Jan. 8, 2010]<br />
*[http://newshare.typepad.com/greylocknews/2015/03/national-leader-of-solutions-journalism-to-speak-in-williamstown-on-april-2-about-new-book-on-sustai.html van Gelder to speak April 2, 2015 in Williamstown, Mass.]<br />
*LISTEN: [http://newshare.com/journalism/ncmr-solutions-journalism-04-06-13.mp3 An April 4, 2013 panel moderated by van Gelder] at the [http://conference.freepress.net/session/making-media-making-change-journalism-solves-problems National Conference for Media Reform in Denver.]</h4><br />
<br />
<i>Sarah van Gelder is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Yes! Magazine, published by the non-profit Positive Futures Network on Bainbridge Island, Wash. She is among leaders of a new movement to promote so-called "solutions journalism." In a regional TED talk in Bellevue, Wash., in September, 2013, van Gelder described how she came to support the idea. The 10-minute YouTube video can be watched from [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yHGFg0BKok HERE.] Here are excerpts of her remarks, which she entitled, "How to Get Inspiration Into Your Daily Media Diet"</i><br><br />
<hr><br />
<br />
<i>(She talks about a trip to India as a young adult.)</i><br />
<br />
"Every day when I walked outside, I would be surrounded by swarms of beggars. I couldn't understand why in a country as ancient and beautiful as India people my own age were going hungry. That sent me on a life-long quest for answers -- why hunger, why poverty? What could I do? The mainstream media wasn't giving me much help. It was saturated with images of people rich and powerful or wanting to be rich and powerful. Poverty was addressed in a superficial charity mode."<br><br />
<br><br />
Van Gelder cites George Gerbner, the late dean of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. "Who tells the stories of a culture really governs human behavior," Gerbner wrote. "It used to be the parent, the school, the church, the community . . . Now it's a handful of global conglomerates that have nothing to tell, but a great deal to sell." Gerbner also believed that the more we are exposed to images of violence, wrongdoing and corruption the more fearful we become, says van Gelder.<br />
<br><br><br />
"Fearful people are more dependent, more easily manipulated and controlled, more suseptible to deceptively simple, strong, tough measures and hard-line postures," said van Gender. So what if we showed creativity, leadership and connectedness in the media? van Gender asked in the TED Talk. We need to understand the science of climate change,and the people creating the solutions. "We need to know about people dividing us, and bringing us together," she says, adding: "We need to know how buying too much stuff can undermine our own well being and the well being of the planet . . . we don't have the trash the planet to be healthy."<br />
<br><br />
So van Gelder set out to work in media, telling stories of what people are doing not only when they are at their worst, but when they are at their best, too. She sought to illuminate radical solutions and ideas. <br />
<br><br />
<br />
===What is solutions journalism or appreciative journalism?===<br />
<br><br />
The kind of journalism van Gelder seeks to practice asks these sorts of questions: <br />
<br><br />
*What's possible now? <br />
*What matters most? <br />
*What's working? <br />
*Who's leading? <br />
*How do we get to the root issues? <br />
*What would happen if this change took hold? <br />
<br><br />
Yes! Magazine does this under van Gelder's leadershi by publishing examples on things like jobs and livelihood. The magazine seeks to step outside the regular political dialogue, van Gelder says. The magazine's editorial philosophy, says van Gelder, is that "we the people have the answers no matter how tough the challenges" and that "good things happen are when we the people take control . . . there is a reason the word encourage has courage in it . . . it is those stories of courage that encourage us to take action. And it is our action that embodies the hope of our world." <br />
<br><br />
===Find and share appreciative, solutions journalism===<br />
<br><br />
Van Gelder's request at the end of her TED talk: For one month include one piece of appreciative, solutions journalism in your diet, and share it with a friend. "See if you are feeling less of the mean-world syndrome," she says. "And ask if you are seeing new opportunities to make the world more just and sustainable." Because, says, van Gelder: "The stories we pay attention to forms our sense of what's possible, what choices we have and it is the choices we make that will change history."<br />
<hr><br />
<h4><br />
*[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Solutions-journalism MORE ABOUT SOLUTIONS JOURNALISM]<br />
</H4></div>Bill Densmorehttps://mgpwiki.mediagiraffe.org//index.php?title=Solutions-journalism-van-gelder&diff=236890Solutions-journalism-van-gelder2015-03-19T19:53:08Z<p>Bill Densmore: </p>
<hr />
<div>=Sarah van Gelder's evolutionary journey to the practice of "solutions journalism"=<br />
<br />
[[Image:Sarah-van-gelder1.jpg|300px|thumb|right|]]<br />
<br />
===Extracted by Bill Densmore===<br />
<br />
<h4>RELATED LINKS:<br><br />
*[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-possibilty-journalism Solutions journalism discussion at a JTM conference in Seattle, Jan. 8, 2010]<br />
*[http://newshare.typepad.com/greylocknews/2015/03/national-leader-of-solutions-journalism-to-speak-in-williamstown-on-april-2-about-new-book-on-sustai.html van Gelder to speak April 2, 2015 in Williamstown, Mass.]</h4><br />
<br />
<i>Sarah van Gelder is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Yes! Magazine, published by the non-profit Positive Futures Network on Bainbridge Island, Wash. She is among leaders of a new movement to promote so-called "solutions journalism." In a regional TED talk in Bellevue, Wash., in September, 2013, van Gelder described how she came to support the idea. The 10-minute YouTube video can be watched from [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yHGFg0BKok HERE.] Here are excerpts of her remarks, which she entitled, "How to Get Inspiration Into Your Daily Media Diet"</i><br><br />
<hr><br />
<br />
<i>(She talks about a trip to India as a young adult.)</i><br />
<br />
"Every day when I walked outside, I would be surrounded by swarms of beggars. I couldn't understand why in a country as ancient and beautiful as India people my own age were going hungry. That sent me on a life-long quest for answers -- why hunger, why poverty? What could I do? The mainstream media wasn't giving me much help. It was saturated with images of people rich and powerful or wanting to be rich and powerful. Poverty was addressed in a superficial charity mode."<br><br />
<br><br />
Van Gelder cites George Gerbner, the late dean of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. "Who tells the stories of a culture really governs human behavior," Gerbner wrote. "It used to be the parent, the school, the church, the community . . . Now it's a handful of global conglomerates that have nothing to tell, but a great deal to sell." Gerbner also believed that the more we are exposed to images of violence, wrongdoing and corruption the more fearful we become, says van Gelder.<br />
<br><br><br />
"Fearful people are more dependent, more easily manipulated and controlled, more suseptible to deceptively simple, strong, tough measures and hard-line postures," said van Gender. So what if we showed creativity, leadership and connectedness in the media? van Gender asked in the TED Talk. We need to understand the science of climate change,and the people creating the solutions. "We need to know about people dividing us, and bringing us together," she says, adding: "We need to know how buying too much stuff can undermine our own well being and the well being of the planet . . . we don't have the trash the planet to be healthy."<br />
<br><br />
So van Gelder set out to work in media, telling stories of what people are doing not only when they are at their worst, but when they are at their best, too. She sought to illuminate radical solutions and ideas. <br />
<br><br />
<br />
===What is solutions journalism or appreciative journalism?===<br />
<br><br />
The kind of journalism van Gelder seeks to practice asks these sorts of questions: <br />
<br><br />
*What's possible now? <br />
*What matters most? <br />
*What's working? <br />
*Who's leading? <br />
*How do we get to the root issues? <br />
*What would happen if this change took hold? <br />
<br><br />
Yes! Magazine does this under van Gelder's leadershi by publishing examples on things like jobs and livelihood. The magazine seeks to step outside the regular political dialogue, van Gelder says. The magazine's editorial philosophy, says van Gelder, is that "we the people have the answers no matter how tough the challenges" and that "good things happen are when we the people take control . . . there is a reason the word encourage has courage in it . . . it is those stories of courage that encourage us to take action. And it is our action that embodies the hope of our world." <br />
<br><br />
===Find and share appreciative, solutions journalism===<br />
<br><br />
Van Gelder's request at the end of her TED talk: For one month include one piece of appreciative, solutions journalism in your diet, and share it with a friend. "See if you are feeling less of the mean-world syndrome," she says. "And ask if you are seeing new opportunities to make the world more just and sustainable." Because, says, van Gelder: "The stories we pay attention to forms our sense of what's possible, what choices we have and it is the choices we make that will change history."<br />
<hr><br />
<h4><br />
*[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Solutions-journalism MORE ABOUT SOLUTIONS JOURNALISM]<br />
</H4></div>Bill Densmorehttps://mgpwiki.mediagiraffe.org//index.php?title=Solutions-journalism-van-gelder&diff=236889Solutions-journalism-van-gelder2015-03-19T19:52:56Z<p>Bill Densmore: </p>
<hr />
<div>=Sarah van Gelder's evolutionary journey to the practice of "solutions journalism"=<br />
<br />
[[Image:Sarah-van-gelder1.jpg|300px|thumb|right|]]<br />
<br />
===Extracted by Bill Densmore===<br />
<br />
<h4>RELATED LINKS:<br><br />
*[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-possibilty-journalism Solutions journalism discussion at a JTM conference in Seattle, Jan. 8, 2010]<br />
*[http://newshare.typepad.com/greylocknews/2015/03/national-leader-of-solutions-journalism-to-speak-in-williamstown-on-april-2-about-new-book-on-sustai.html van Gelder to speak April 2, 2015 in Williamstown, Mass.</h4><br />
<br />
<i>Sarah van Gelder is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Yes! Magazine, published by the non-profit Positive Futures Network on Bainbridge Island, Wash. She is among leaders of a new movement to promote so-called "solutions journalism." In a regional TED talk in Bellevue, Wash., in September, 2013, van Gelder described how she came to support the idea. The 10-minute YouTube video can be watched from [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yHGFg0BKok HERE.] Here are excerpts of her remarks, which she entitled, "How to Get Inspiration Into Your Daily Media Diet"</i><br><br />
<hr><br />
<br />
<i>(She talks about a trip to India as a young adult.)</i><br />
<br />
"Every day when I walked outside, I would be surrounded by swarms of beggars. I couldn't understand why in a country as ancient and beautiful as India people my own age were going hungry. That sent me on a life-long quest for answers -- why hunger, why poverty? What could I do? The mainstream media wasn't giving me much help. It was saturated with images of people rich and powerful or wanting to be rich and powerful. Poverty was addressed in a superficial charity mode."<br><br />
<br><br />
Van Gelder cites George Gerbner, the late dean of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. "Who tells the stories of a culture really governs human behavior," Gerbner wrote. "It used to be the parent, the school, the church, the community . . . Now it's a handful of global conglomerates that have nothing to tell, but a great deal to sell." Gerbner also believed that the more we are exposed to images of violence, wrongdoing and corruption the more fearful we become, says van Gelder.<br />
<br><br><br />
"Fearful people are more dependent, more easily manipulated and controlled, more suseptible to deceptively simple, strong, tough measures and hard-line postures," said van Gender. So what if we showed creativity, leadership and connectedness in the media? van Gender asked in the TED Talk. We need to understand the science of climate change,and the people creating the solutions. "We need to know about people dividing us, and bringing us together," she says, adding: "We need to know how buying too much stuff can undermine our own well being and the well being of the planet . . . we don't have the trash the planet to be healthy."<br />
<br><br />
So van Gelder set out to work in media, telling stories of what people are doing not only when they are at their worst, but when they are at their best, too. She sought to illuminate radical solutions and ideas. <br />
<br><br />
<br />
===What is solutions journalism or appreciative journalism?===<br />
<br><br />
The kind of journalism van Gelder seeks to practice asks these sorts of questions: <br />
<br><br />
*What's possible now? <br />
*What matters most? <br />
*What's working? <br />
*Who's leading? <br />
*How do we get to the root issues? <br />
*What would happen if this change took hold? <br />
<br><br />
Yes! Magazine does this under van Gelder's leadershi by publishing examples on things like jobs and livelihood. The magazine seeks to step outside the regular political dialogue, van Gelder says. The magazine's editorial philosophy, says van Gelder, is that "we the people have the answers no matter how tough the challenges" and that "good things happen are when we the people take control . . . there is a reason the word encourage has courage in it . . . it is those stories of courage that encourage us to take action. And it is our action that embodies the hope of our world." <br />
<br><br />
===Find and share appreciative, solutions journalism===<br />
<br><br />
Van Gelder's request at the end of her TED talk: For one month include one piece of appreciative, solutions journalism in your diet, and share it with a friend. "See if you are feeling less of the mean-world syndrome," she says. "And ask if you are seeing new opportunities to make the world more just and sustainable." Because, says, van Gelder: "The stories we pay attention to forms our sense of what's possible, what choices we have and it is the choices we make that will change history."<br />
<hr><br />
<h4><br />
*[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Solutions-journalism MORE ABOUT SOLUTIONS JOURNALISM]<br />
</H4></div>Bill Densmorehttps://mgpwiki.mediagiraffe.org//index.php?title=Solutions-journalism-van-gelder&diff=236888Solutions-journalism-van-gelder2015-03-19T19:28:21Z<p>Bill Densmore: </p>
<hr />
<div>=Sarah van Gelder's evolutionary journey to the practice of "solutions journalism"=<br />
<br />
[[Image:Sarah-van-gelder1.jpg|300px|thumb|right|]]<br />
<br />
===Extracted by Bill Densmore===<br />
<br />
<h4>RELATED LINK: [http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-possibilty-journalism Solutions journalism discussion at a JTM conference in Seattle, Jan. 8, 2010]</h4><br />
<br />
<i>Sarah van Gelder is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Yes! Magazine, published by the non-profit Positive Futures Network on Bainbridge Island, Wash. She is among leaders of a new movement to promote so-called "solutions journalism." In a regional TED talk in Bellevue, Wash., in September, 2013, van Gelder described how she came to support the idea. The 10-minute YouTube video can be watched from [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yHGFg0BKok HERE.] Here are excerpts of her remarks, which she entitled, "How to Get Inspiration Into Your Daily Media Diet"</i><br><br />
<hr><br />
<br />
<i>(She talks about a trip to India as a young adult.)</i><br />
<br />
"Every day when I walked outside, I would be surrounded by swarms of beggars. I couldn't understand why in a country as ancient and beautiful as India people my own age were going hungry. That sent me on a life-long quest for answers -- why hunger, why poverty? What could I do? The mainstream media wasn't giving me much help. It was saturated with images of people rich and powerful or wanting to be rich and powerful. Poverty was addressed in a superficial charity mode."<br><br />
<br><br />
Van Gelder cites George Gerbner, the late dean of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. "Who tells the stories of a culture really governs human behavior," Gerbner wrote. "It used to be the parent, the school, the church, the community . . . Now it's a handful of global conglomerates that have nothing to tell, but a great deal to sell." Gerbner also believed that the more we are exposed to images of violence, wrongdoing and corruption the more fearful we become, says van Gelder.<br />
<br><br><br />
"Fearful people are more dependent, more easily manipulated and controlled, more suseptible to deceptively simple, strong, tough measures and hard-line postures," said van Gender. So what if we showed creativity, leadership and connectedness in the media? van Gender asked in the TED Talk. We need to understand the science of climate change,and the people creating the solutions. "We need to know about people dividing us, and bringing us together," she says, adding: "We need to know how buying too much stuff can undermine our own well being and the well being of the planet . . . we don't have the trash the planet to be healthy."<br />
<br><br />
So van Gelder set out to work in media, telling stories of what people are doing not only when they are at their worst, but when they are at their best, too. She sought to illuminate radical solutions and ideas. <br />
<br><br />
===What is solutions journalism or appreciative journalism?===<br />
<br><br />
The kind of journalism van Gelder seeks to practice asks these sorts of questions: <br />
<br><br />
*What's possible now? <br />
*What matters most? <br />
*What's working? <br />
*Who's leading? <br />
*How do we get to the root issues? <br />
*What would happen if this change took hold? <br />
<br><br />
Yes! Magazine does this under van Gelder's leadershi by publishing examples on things like jobs and livelihood. The magazine seeks to step outside the regular political dialogue, van Gelder says. The magazine's editorial philosophy, says van Gelder, is that "we the people have the answers no matter how tough the challenges" and that "good things happen are when we the people take control . . . there is a reason the word encourage has courage in it . . . it is those stories of courage that encourage us to take action. And it is our action that embodies the hope of our world." <br />
<br><br />
===Find and share appreciative, solutions journalism===<br />
<br><br />
Van Gelder's request at the end of her TED talk: For one month include one piece of appreciative, solutions journalism in your diet, and share it with a friend. "See if you are feeling less of the mean-world syndrome," she says. "And ask if you are seeing new opportunities to make the world more just and sustainable." Because, says, van Gelder: "The stories we pay attention to forms our sense of what's possible, what choices we have and it is the choices we make that will change history."<br />
<hr><br />
<h4><br />
*[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Solutions-journalism MORE ABOUT SOLUTIONS JOURNALISM]<br />
</H4></div>Bill Densmorehttps://mgpwiki.mediagiraffe.org//index.php?title=Solutions-journalism-van-gelder&diff=236887Solutions-journalism-van-gelder2015-03-19T19:27:49Z<p>Bill Densmore: </p>
<hr />
<div>=Sarah van Gelder's evolutionary journey to the practice of "solutions journalism"=<br />
<br />
[[Image:Sarah-van-gelder1.jpg|300px|thumb|right|]]<br />
<br />
===Extracted by Bill Densmore===<br />
<br />
<h4>RELATED LINK: [http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-possibilty-journalism Solutions journalism discussion at a JTM conference in Seattle, Jan. 8, 2010]</h4><br />
<br />
<i>Sarah van Gelder is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Yes! Magazine, published by the non-profit Positive Futures Network on Bainbridge Island, Wash. She is among leaders of a new movement to promote so-called "solutions journalism." In a regional TED talk in Bellevue, Wash., in September, 2013, van Gelder described how she came to support the idea. The 10-minute YouTube video can be watched from [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yHGFg0BKok HERE.] Here are excerpts of her remarks, which she entitled, "How to Get Inspiration Into Your Daily Media Diet"</i><br><br />
<hr><br />
<br />
<i>(She talks about a trip to India as a young adult.)</i><br />
<br />
"Every day when I walked outside, I would be surrounded by swarms of beggars. I couldn't understand why in a country as ancient and beautiful as India people my own age were going hungry. That sent me on a life-long quest for answers -- why hunger, why poverty? What could I do? The mainstream media wasn't giving me much help. It was saturated with images of people rich and powerful or wanting to be rich and powerful. Poverty was addressed in a superficial charity mode."<br><br />
<br><br />
Van Gelder cites George Gerbner, the late dean of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. "Who tells the stories of a culture really governs human behavior," Gerbner wrote. "It used to be the parent, the school, the church, the community . . . Now it's a handful of global conglomerates that have nothing to tell, but a great deal to sell." Gerbner also believed that the more we are exposed to images of violence, wrongdoing and corruption the more fearful we become, says van Gelder.<<br />
<br><br><br />
"Who tells the stories of a culture really governs hman behavior," <br />
"Fearful people are more dependent, more easily manipulated and controlled, more suseptible to deceptively simple, strong, tough measures and hard-line postures," said van Gender. So what if we showed creativity, leadership and connectedness in the media? van Gender asked in the TED Talk. We need to understand the science of climate change,and the people creating the solutions. "We need to know about people dividing us, and bringing us together," she says, adding: "We need to know how buying too much stuff can undermine our own well being and the well being of the planet . . . we don't have the trash the planet to be healthy."<br />
<br><br />
So van Gelder set out to work in media, telling stories of what people are doing not only when they are at their worst, but when they are at their best, too. She sought to illuminate radical solutions and ideas. <br />
<br><br />
===What is solutions journalism or appreciative journalism?===<br />
<br><br />
The kind of journalism van Gelder seeks to practice asks these sorts of questions: <br />
<br><br />
*What's possible now? <br />
*What matters most? <br />
*What's working? <br />
*Who's leading? <br />
*How do we get to the root issues? <br />
*What would happen if this change took hold? <br />
<br><br />
Yes! Magazine does this under van Gelder's leadershi by publishing examples on things like jobs and livelihood. The magazine seeks to step outside the regular political dialogue, van Gelder says. The magazine's editorial philosophy, says van Gelder, is that "we the people have the answers no matter how tough the challenges" and that "good things happen are when we the people take control . . . there is a reason the word encourage has courage in it . . . it is those stories of courage that encourage us to take action. And it is our action that embodies the hope of our world." <br />
<br><br />
===Find and share appreciative, solutions journalism===<br />
<br><br />
Van Gelder's request at the end of her TED talk: For one month include one piece of appreciative, solutions journalism in your diet, and share it with a friend. "See if you are feeling less of the mean-world syndrome," she says. "And ask if you are seeing new opportunities to make the world more just and sustainable." Because, says, van Gelder: "The stories we pay attention to forms our sense of what's possible, what choices we have and it is the choices we make that will change history."<br />
<hr><br />
<h4><br />
*[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Solutions-journalism MORE ABOUT SOLUTIONS JOURNALISM]<br />
</H4></div>Bill Densmorehttps://mgpwiki.mediagiraffe.org//index.php?title=Solutions-journalism-van-gelder&diff=236886Solutions-journalism-van-gelder2015-03-19T19:27:26Z<p>Bill Densmore: </p>
<hr />
<div>=Sarah van Gelder's evolutionary journey to the practice of "solutions journalism"=<br />
<br />
[[Image:Sarah-van-gelder1.jpg|300px|thumb|right|]]<br />
<br />
===Extracted by Bill Densmore===<br />
<br />
<h4>RELATED LINK: [http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-possibilty-journalism Solutions journalism discussion at a JTM conference in Seattle, Jan. 8, 2010]</h4><br />
<br />
<i>Sarah van Gelder is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Yes! Magazine, published by the non-profit Positive Futures Network on Bainbridge Island, Wash. She is among leaders of a new movement to promote so-called "solutions journalism." In a regional TED talk in Bellevue, Wash., in September, 2013, van Gelder described how she came to support the idea. The 10-minute YouTube video can be watched from [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yHGFg0BKok HERE.] Here are excerpts of her remarks, which she entitled, "How to Get Inspiration Into Your Daily Media Diet"</i><br><br />
<hr><br />
<br />
<i>(She talks about a trip to India as a young adult.)</i><br />
<br />
"Every day when I walked outside, I would be surrounded by swarms of beggars. I couldn't understand why in a country as ancient and beautiful as India people my own age were going hungry. That sent me on a life-long quest for answers -- why hunger, why poverty? What could I do? The mainstream media wasn't giving me much help. It was saturated with images of people rich and powerful or wanting to be rich and powerful. Poverty was addressed in a superficial charity mode."<br><br />
<br />
<i>Van Gelder cites George Gerbner, the late dean of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. "Who tells the stories of a culture really governs human behavior," Gerbner wrote. "It used to be the parent, the school, the church, the community . . . Now it's a handful of global conglomerates that have nothing to tell, but a great deal to sell." Gerbner also believed that the more we are exposed to images of violence, wrongdoing and corruption the more fearful we become, says van Gelder.</i><br />
<br><br><br />
"Who tells the stories of a culture really governs hman behavior," <br />
"Fearful people are more dependent, more easily manipulated and controlled, more suseptible to deceptively simple, strong, tough measures and hard-line postures," said van Gender. So what if we showed creativity, leadership and connectedness in the media? van Gender asked in the TED Talk. We need to understand the science of climate change,and the people creating the solutions. "We need to know about people dividing us, and bringing us together," she says, adding: "We need to know how buying too much stuff can undermine our own well being and the well being of the planet . . . we don't have the trash the planet to be healthy."<br />
<br><br />
So van Gelder set out to work in media, telling stories of what people are doing not only when they are at their worst, but when they are at their best, too. She sought to illuminate radical solutions and ideas. <br />
<br><br />
===What is solutions journalism or appreciative journalism?===<br />
<br><br />
The kind of journalism van Gelder seeks to practice asks these sorts of questions: <br />
<br><br />
*What's possible now? <br />
*What matters most? <br />
*What's working? <br />
*Who's leading? <br />
*How do we get to the root issues? <br />
*What would happen if this change took hold? <br />
<br><br />
Yes! Magazine does this under van Gelder's leadershi by publishing examples on things like jobs and livelihood. The magazine seeks to step outside the regular political dialogue, van Gelder says. The magazine's editorial philosophy, says van Gelder, is that "we the people have the answers no matter how tough the challenges" and that "good things happen are when we the people take control . . . there is a reason the word encourage has courage in it . . . it is those stories of courage that encourage us to take action. And it is our action that embodies the hope of our world." <br />
<br><br />
===Find and share appreciative, solutions journalism===<br />
<br><br />
Van Gelder's request at the end of her TED talk: For one month include one piece of appreciative, solutions journalism in your diet, and share it with a friend. "See if you are feeling less of the mean-world syndrome," she says. "And ask if you are seeing new opportunities to make the world more just and sustainable." Because, says, van Gelder: "The stories we pay attention to forms our sense of what's possible, what choices we have and it is the choices we make that will change history."<br />
<hr><br />
<h4><br />
*[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Solutions-journalism MORE ABOUT SOLUTIONS JOURNALISM]<br />
</H4></div>Bill Densmorehttps://mgpwiki.mediagiraffe.org//index.php?title=Solutions-journalism-van-gelder&diff=236885Solutions-journalism-van-gelder2015-03-19T18:19:38Z<p>Bill Densmore: </p>
<hr />
<div>=Sarah van Gelder's evolutionary journey to the practice of "solutions journalism"=<br />
<br />
[[Image:Sarah-van-gelder1.jpg|300px|thumb|right|]]<br />
<br />
===Extracted by Bill Densmore===<br />
<br />
<h4>RELATED LINK: [http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-possibilty-journalism Solutions journalism discussion at a JTM conference in Seattle, Jan. 8, 2010]</h4><br />
<br />
<i>Sarah van Gelder is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Yes! Magazine, published by the non-profit Positive Futures Network on Bainbridge Island, Wash. She is among leaders of a new movement to promote so-called "solutions journalism." In a regional TED talk in Bellevue, Wash., in September, 2013, van Gelder described how she came to support the idea. The 10-minute YouTube video can be watched from [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yHGFg0BKok HERE.] Here are excerpts of her remarks, which she entitled, "How to Get Inspiration Into Your Daily Media Diet"</i><br><br />
<hr><br />
<br />
<i>(She talks about a trip to India as a young adult.)</i><br />
<br />
"Every day when I walked outside, I would be surrounded by swarms of beggars. I couldn't understand why in a country as ancient and beautiful as India people my own age were going hungry. That sent me on a life-long quest for answers -- why hunger, why poverty? What could I do? The mainstream media wasn't giving me much help. It was saturated with images of people rich and powerful or wanting to be rich and powerful. Poverty was addressed in a superficial charity mode."<br><br />
<br />
<i>Van Gelder cites George Gerbner, the late dean of the Anneberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Gerbner, she recalls, said that people who control the stories of a culture control its behavior. that used to be parents, schools and religious leaders, van Gelder says, adding, now it is congolomerates. Gerbner also beleived that the more we are exposed to images of violence, wrongdoing and corruption the more fearful we become.</i><br />
<br><br><br />
"Fearful people are more dependent, more easily manipulated and controlled, more suseptible to deceptively simple, strong, tough measures and hard-line postures," said van Gender. So what if we showed creativity, leadership and connectedness in the media? van Gender asked in the TED Talk. We need to understand the science of climate change,and the people creating the solutions. "We need to know about people dividing us, and bringing us together," she says, adding: "We need to know how buying too much stuff can undermine our own well being and the well being of the planet . . . we don't have the trash the planet to be healthy."<br />
<br><br />
So van Gelder set out to work in media, telling stories of what people are doing not only when they are at their worst, but when they are at their best, too. She sought to illuminate radical solutions and ideas. <br />
<br><br />
===What is solutions journalism or appreciative journalism?===<br />
<br><br />
The kind of journalism van Gelder seeks to practice asks these sorts of questions: <br />
<br><br />
*What's possible now? <br />
*What matters most? <br />
*What's working? <br />
*Who's leading? <br />
*How do we get to the root issues? <br />
*What would happen if this change took hold? <br />
<br><br />
Yes! Magazine does this under van Gelder's leadershi by publishing examples on things like jobs and livelihood. The magazine seeks to step outside the regular political dialogue, van Gelder says. The magazine's editorial philosophy, says van Gelder, is that "we the people have the answers no matter how tough the challenges" and that "good things happen are when we the people take control . . . there is a reason the word encourage has courage in it . . . it is those stories of courage that encourage us to take action. And it is our action that embodies the hope of our world." <br />
<br><br />
===Find and share appreciative, solutions journalism===<br />
<br><br />
Van Gelder's request at the end of her TED talk: For one month include one piece of appreciative, solutions journalism in your diet, and share it with a friend. "See if you are feeling less of the mean-world syndrome," she says. "And ask if you are seeing new opportunities to make the world more just and sustainable." Because, says, van Gelder: "The stories we pay attention to forms our sense of what's possible, what choices we have and it is the choices we make that will change history."<br />
<hr><br />
<h4><br />
*[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Solutions-journalism MORE ABOUT SOLUTIONS JOURNALISM]<br />
</H4></div>Bill Densmorehttps://mgpwiki.mediagiraffe.org//index.php?title=Solutions-journalism-van-gelder&diff=236884Solutions-journalism-van-gelder2015-03-19T18:18:48Z<p>Bill Densmore: </p>
<hr />
<div>=Sarah van Gelder's evolutionary journey to the practice of "solutions journalism"=<br />
<br />
[[Image:Sarah-van-gelder1.jpg|300px|thumb|right|]]<br />
<br />
===Extracted by Bill Densmore===<br />
<br />
<h4>RELATED LINK: [http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-possibilty-journalism Solutions journalism discussion at a JTM conference in Seattle, Jan. 8, 2010]</h4><br />
<br />
<i>Sarah van Gelder is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Yes! Magazine, published by the non-profit Positive Futures Network on Bainbridge Island, Wash. She is among leaders of a new movement to promote so-called "solutions journalism." In a regional TED talk in Bellevue, Wash., in September, 2013, van Gender described how she came to support the idea. The 10-minute YouTube video can be watched from [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yHGFg0BKok HERE.] Here are excerpts of her remarks, which she entitled, "How to Get Inspiration Into Your Daily Media Diet"</i><br><br />
<hr><br />
<br />
<i>(She talks about a trip to India as a young adult.)</i><br />
<br />
"Every day when I walked outside, I would be surrounded by swarms of beggars. I couldn't understand why in a country as ancient and beautiful as India people my own age were going hungry. That sent me on a life-long quest for answers -- why hunger, why poverty? What could I do? The mainstream media wasn't giving me much help. It was saturated with images of people rich and powerful or wanting to be rich and powerful. Poverty was addressed in a superficial charity mode."<br><br />
<br />
<i>Van Gelder cites George Gerbner, the late dean of the Anneberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Gerbner, she recalls, said that people who control the stories of a culture control its behavior. that used to be parents, schools and religious leaders, van Gelder says, adding, now it is congolomerates. Gerbner also beleived that the more we are exposed to images of violence, wrongdoing and corruption the more fearful we become.</i><br />
<br><br><br />
"Fearful people are more dependent, more easily manipulated and controlled, more suseptible to deceptively simple, strong, tough measures and hard-line postures," said van Gender. So what if we showed creativity, leadership and connectedness in the media? van Gender asked in the TED Talk. We need to understand the science of climate change,and the people creating the solutions. "We need to know about people dividing us, and bringing us together," she says, adding: "We need to know how buying too much stuff can undermine our own well being and the well being of the planet . . . we don't have the trash the planet to be healthy."<br />
<br><br />
So van Gelder set out to work in media, telling stories of what people are doing not only when they are at their worst, but when they are at their best, too. She sought to illuminate radical solutions and ideas. <br />
<br><br />
===What is solutions journalism or appreciative journalism?===<br />
<br><br />
The kind of journalism van Gelder seeks to practice asks these sorts of questions: <br />
<br><br />
*What's possible now? <br />
*What matters most? <br />
*What's working? <br />
*Who's leading? <br />
*How do we get to the root issues? <br />
*What would happen if this change took hold? <br />
<br><br />
Yes! Magazine does this under van Gelder's leadershi by publishing examples on things like jobs and livelihood. The magazine seeks to step outside the regular political dialogue, van Gelder says. The magazine's editorial philosophy, says van Gelder, is that "we the people have the answers no matter how tough the challenges" and that "good things happen are when we the people take control . . . there is a reason the word encourage has courage in it . . . it is those stories of courage that encourage us to take action. And it is our action that embodies the hope of our world." <br />
<br><br />
===Find and share appreciative, solutions journalism===<br />
<br><br />
Van Gelder's request at the end of her TED talk: For one month include one piece of appreciative, solutions journalism in your diet, and share it with a friend. "See if you are feeling less of the mean-world syndrome," she says. "And ask if you are seeing new opportunities to make the world more just and sustainable." Because, says, van Gelder: "The stories we pay attention to forms our sense of what's possible, what choices we have and it is the choices we make that will change history."<br />
<hr><br />
<h4><br />
*[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Solutions-journalism MORE ABOUT SOLUTIONS JOURNALISM]<br />
</H4></div>Bill Densmorehttps://mgpwiki.mediagiraffe.org//index.php?title=Solutions-journalism-van-gelder&diff=236883Solutions-journalism-van-gelder2015-03-19T18:18:26Z<p>Bill Densmore: </p>
<hr />
<div>=Sarah van Gelder's evolutionary journey to support "solutions journalism"=<br />
<br />
[[Image:Sarah-van-gelder1.jpg|300px|thumb|right|]]<br />
<br />
===Extracted by Bill Densmore===<br />
<br />
<h4>RELATED LINK: [http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-possibilty-journalism Solutions journalism discussion at a JTM conference in Seattle, Jan. 8, 2010]</h4><br />
<br />
<i>Sarah van Gelder is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Yes! Magazine, published by the non-profit Positive Futures Network on Bainbridge Island, Wash. She is among leaders of a new movement to promote so-called "solutions journalism." In a regional TED talk in Bellevue, Wash., in September, 2013, van Gender described how she came to support the idea. The 10-minute YouTube video can be watched from [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yHGFg0BKok HERE.] Here are excerpts of her remarks, which she entitled, "How to Get Inspiration Into Your Daily Media Diet"</i><br><br />
<hr><br />
<br />
<i>(She talks about a trip to India as a young adult.)</i><br />
<br />
"Every day when I walked outside, I would be surrounded by swarms of beggars. I couldn't understand why in a country as ancient and beautiful as India people my own age were going hungry. That sent me on a life-long quest for answers -- why hunger, why poverty? What could I do? The mainstream media wasn't giving me much help. It was saturated with images of people rich and powerful or wanting to be rich and powerful. Poverty was addressed in a superficial charity mode."<br><br />
<br />
<i>Van Gelder cites George Gerbner, the late dean of the Anneberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Gerbner, she recalls, said that people who control the stories of a culture control its behavior. that used to be parents, schools and religious leaders, van Gelder says, adding, now it is congolomerates. Gerbner also beleived that the more we are exposed to images of violence, wrongdoing and corruption the more fearful we become.</i><br />
<br><br><br />
"Fearful people are more dependent, more easily manipulated and controlled, more suseptible to deceptively simple, strong, tough measures and hard-line postures," said van Gender. So what if we showed creativity, leadership and connectedness in the media? van Gender asked in the TED Talk. We need to understand the science of climate change,and the people creating the solutions. "We need to know about people dividing us, and bringing us together," she says, adding: "We need to know how buying too much stuff can undermine our own well being and the well being of the planet . . . we don't have the trash the planet to be healthy."<br />
<br><br />
So van Gelder set out to work in media, telling stories of what people are doing not only when they are at their worst, but when they are at their best, too. She sought to illuminate radical solutions and ideas. <br />
<br><br />
===What is solutions journalism or appreciative journalism?===<br />
<br><br />
The kind of journalism van Gelder seeks to practice asks these sorts of questions: <br />
<br><br />
*What's possible now? <br />
*What matters most? <br />
*What's working? <br />
*Who's leading? <br />
*How do we get to the root issues? <br />
*What would happen if this change took hold? <br />
<br><br />
Yes! Magazine does this under van Gelder's leadershi by publishing examples on things like jobs and livelihood. The magazine seeks to step outside the regular political dialogue, van Gelder says. The magazine's editorial philosophy, says van Gelder, is that "we the people have the answers no matter how tough the challenges" and that "good things happen are when we the people take control . . . there is a reason the word encourage has courage in it . . . it is those stories of courage that encourage us to take action. And it is our action that embodies the hope of our world." <br />
<br><br />
===Find and share appreciative, solutions journalism===<br />
<br><br />
Van Gelder's request at the end of her TED talk: For one month include one piece of appreciative, solutions journalism in your diet, and share it with a friend. "See if you are feeling less of the mean-world syndrome," she says. "And ask if you are seeing new opportunities to make the world more just and sustainable." Because, says, van Gelder: "The stories we pay attention to forms our sense of what's possible, what choices we have and it is the choices we make that will change history."<br />
<hr><br />
<h4><br />
*[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Solutions-journalism MORE ABOUT SOLUTIONS JOURNALISM]<br />
</H4></div>Bill Densmorehttps://mgpwiki.mediagiraffe.org//index.php?title=Solutions-journalism-van-gelder&diff=236882Solutions-journalism-van-gelder2015-03-19T18:18:10Z<p>Bill Densmore: </p>
<hr />
<div>=Sarah van Gelder's evolutionary journey to support "solutions journalism"=<br />
<br />
[[Image:Sarah-van-gelder1.jpg|300px|thumb|left|]]<br />
<br />
===Extracted by Bill Densmore===<br />
<br />
<h4>RELATED LINK: [http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-possibilty-journalism Solutions journalism discussion at a JTM conference in Seattle, Jan. 8, 2010]</h4><br />
<br />
<i>Sarah van Gelder is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Yes! Magazine, published by the non-profit Positive Futures Network on Bainbridge Island, Wash. She is among leaders of a new movement to promote so-called "solutions journalism." In a regional TED talk in Bellevue, Wash., in September, 2013, van Gender described how she came to support the idea. The 10-minute YouTube video can be watched from [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yHGFg0BKok HERE.] Here are excerpts of her remarks, which she entitled, "How to Get Inspiration Into Your Daily Media Diet"</i><br><br />
<hr><br />
<br />
<i>(She talks about a trip to India as a young adult.)</i><br />
<br />
"Every day when I walked outside, I would be surrounded by swarms of beggars. I couldn't understand why in a country as ancient and beautiful as India people my own age were going hungry. That sent me on a life-long quest for answers -- why hunger, why poverty? What could I do? The mainstream media wasn't giving me much help. It was saturated with images of people rich and powerful or wanting to be rich and powerful. Poverty was addressed in a superficial charity mode."<br><br />
<br />
<i>Van Gelder cites George Gerbner, the late dean of the Anneberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Gerbner, she recalls, said that people who control the stories of a culture control its behavior. that used to be parents, schools and religious leaders, van Gelder says, adding, now it is congolomerates. Gerbner also beleived that the more we are exposed to images of violence, wrongdoing and corruption the more fearful we become.</i><br />
<br><br><br />
"Fearful people are more dependent, more easily manipulated and controlled, more suseptible to deceptively simple, strong, tough measures and hard-line postures," said van Gender. So what if we showed creativity, leadership and connectedness in the media? van Gender asked in the TED Talk. We need to understand the science of climate change,and the people creating the solutions. "We need to know about people dividing us, and bringing us together," she says, adding: "We need to know how buying too much stuff can undermine our own well being and the well being of the planet . . . we don't have the trash the planet to be healthy."<br />
<br><br />
So van Gelder set out to work in media, telling stories of what people are doing not only when they are at their worst, but when they are at their best, too. She sought to illuminate radical solutions and ideas. <br />
<br><br />
===What is solutions journalism or appreciative journalism?===<br />
<br><br />
The kind of journalism van Gelder seeks to practice asks these sorts of questions: <br />
<br><br />
*What's possible now? <br />
*What matters most? <br />
*What's working? <br />
*Who's leading? <br />
*How do we get to the root issues? <br />
*What would happen if this change took hold? <br />
<br><br />
Yes! Magazine does this under van Gelder's leadershi by publishing examples on things like jobs and livelihood. The magazine seeks to step outside the regular political dialogue, van Gelder says. The magazine's editorial philosophy, says van Gelder, is that "we the people have the answers no matter how tough the challenges" and that "good things happen are when we the people take control . . . there is a reason the word encourage has courage in it . . . it is those stories of courage that encourage us to take action. And it is our action that embodies the hope of our world." <br />
<br><br />
===Find and share appreciative, solutions journalism===<br />
<br><br />
Van Gelder's request at the end of her TED talk: For one month include one piece of appreciative, solutions journalism in your diet, and share it with a friend. "See if you are feeling less of the mean-world syndrome," she says. "And ask if you are seeing new opportunities to make the world more just and sustainable." Because, says, van Gelder: "The stories we pay attention to forms our sense of what's possible, what choices we have and it is the choices we make that will change history."<br />
<hr><br />
<h4><br />
*[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Solutions-journalism MORE ABOUT SOLUTIONS JOURNALISM]<br />
</H4></div>Bill Densmorehttps://mgpwiki.mediagiraffe.org//index.php?title=Solutions-journalism-van-gelder&diff=236881Solutions-journalism-van-gelder2015-03-19T18:17:48Z<p>Bill Densmore: </p>
<hr />
<div>=Sarah van Gelder's evolutionary journey to support "solutions journalism"=<br />
<br />
[[Image:Sarah-van-gelder1.jpg|200px|thumb|left|]]<br />
<br />
===Extracted by Bill Densmore===<br />
<br />
<h4>RELATED LINK: [http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-possibilty-journalism Solutions journalism discussion at a JTM conference in Seattle, Jan. 8, 2010]</h4><br />
<br />
<i>Sarah van Gelder is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Yes! Magazine, published by the non-profit Positive Futures Network on Bainbridge Island, Wash. She is among leaders of a new movement to promote so-called "solutions journalism." In a regional TED talk in Bellevue, Wash., in September, 2013, van Gender described how she came to support the idea. The 10-minute YouTube video can be watched from [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yHGFg0BKok HERE.] Here are excerpts of her remarks, which she entitled, "How to Get Inspiration Into Your Daily Media Diet"</i><br><br />
<hr><br />
<br />
<i>(She talks about a trip to India as a young adult.)</i><br />
<br />
"Every day when I walked outside, I would be surrounded by swarms of beggars. I couldn't understand why in a country as ancient and beautiful as India people my own age were going hungry. That sent me on a life-long quest for answers -- why hunger, why poverty? What could I do? The mainstream media wasn't giving me much help. It was saturated with images of people rich and powerful or wanting to be rich and powerful. Poverty was addressed in a superficial charity mode."<br><br />
<br />
<i>Van Gelder cites George Gerbner, the late dean of the Anneberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Gerbner, she recalls, said that people who control the stories of a culture control its behavior. that used to be parents, schools and religious leaders, van Gelder says, adding, now it is congolomerates. Gerbner also beleived that the more we are exposed to images of violence, wrongdoing and corruption the more fearful we become.</i><br />
<br><br><br />
"Fearful people are more dependent, more easily manipulated and controlled, more suseptible to deceptively simple, strong, tough measures and hard-line postures," said van Gender. So what if we showed creativity, leadership and connectedness in the media? van Gender asked in the TED Talk. We need to understand the science of climate change,and the people creating the solutions. "We need to know about people dividing us, and bringing us together," she says, adding: "We need to know how buying too much stuff can undermine our own well being and the well being of the planet . . . we don't have the trash the planet to be healthy."<br />
<br><br />
So van Gelder set out to work in media, telling stories of what people are doing not only when they are at their worst, but when they are at their best, too. She sought to illuminate radical solutions and ideas. <br />
<br><br />
===What is solutions journalism or appreciative journalism?===<br />
<br><br />
The kind of journalism van Gelder seeks to practice asks these sorts of questions: <br />
<br><br />
*What's possible now? <br />
*What matters most? <br />
*What's working? <br />
*Who's leading? <br />
*How do we get to the root issues? <br />
*What would happen if this change took hold? <br />
<br><br />
Yes! Magazine does this under van Gelder's leadershi by publishing examples on things like jobs and livelihood. The magazine seeks to step outside the regular political dialogue, van Gelder says. The magazine's editorial philosophy, says van Gelder, is that "we the people have the answers no matter how tough the challenges" and that "good things happen are when we the people take control . . . there is a reason the word encourage has courage in it . . . it is those stories of courage that encourage us to take action. And it is our action that embodies the hope of our world." <br />
<br><br />
===Find and share appreciative, solutions journalism===<br />
<br><br />
Van Gelder's request at the end of her TED talk: For one month include one piece of appreciative, solutions journalism in your diet, and share it with a friend. "See if you are feeling less of the mean-world syndrome," she says. "And ask if you are seeing new opportunities to make the world more just and sustainable." Because, says, van Gelder: "The stories we pay attention to forms our sense of what's possible, what choices we have and it is the choices we make that will change history."<br />
<hr><br />
<h4><br />
*[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Solutions-journalism MORE ABOUT SOLUTIONS JOURNALISM]<br />
</H4></div>Bill Densmorehttps://mgpwiki.mediagiraffe.org//index.php?title=File:Sarah-van-gelder1.jpg&diff=236880File:Sarah-van-gelder1.jpg2015-03-19T18:16:23Z<p>Bill Densmore: </p>
<hr />
<div></div>Bill Densmorehttps://mgpwiki.mediagiraffe.org//index.php?title=Solutions-journalism-van-gelder&diff=236879Solutions-journalism-van-gelder2015-03-19T18:11:33Z<p>Bill Densmore: /* Find and share appreciative, solutions journalism */</p>
<hr />
<div>=Sarah van Gelder's evolutionary journey to support "solutions journalism"=<br />
<br />
===Extracted by Bill Densmore===<br />
<br />
<h4>RELATED LINK: [http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-possibilty-journalism Solutions journalism discussion at a JTM conference in Seattle, Jan. 8, 2010]</h4><br><br><br />
<br />
<br />
<i>Sarah van Gelder is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Yes! Magazine, published by the non-profit Positive Futures Network on Bainbridge Island, Wash. She is among leaders of a new movement to promote so-called "solutions journalism." In a regional TED talk in Bellevue, Wash., in September, 2013, van Gender described how she came to support the idea. The 10-minute YouTube video can be watched from [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yHGFg0BKok HERE.] Here are excerpts of her remarks, which she entitled, "How to Get Inspiration Into Your Daily Media Diet"</i><br><br />
<hr><br />
<br />
<i>(She talks about a trip to India as a young adult.)</i><br />
<br />
"Every day when I walked outside, I would be surrounded by swarms of beggars. I couldn't understand why in a country as ancient and beautiful as India people my own age were going hungry. That sent me on a life-long quest for answers -- why hunger, why poverty? What could I do? The mainstream media wasn't giving me much help. It was saturated with images of people rich and powerful or wanting to be rich and powerful. Poverty was addressed in a superficial charity mode."<br><br />
<br />
<i>Van Gelder cites George Gerbner, the late dean of the Anneberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Gerbner, she recalls, said that people who control the stories of a culture control its behavior. that used to be parents, schools and religious leaders, van Gelder says, adding, now it is congolomerates. Gerbner also beleived that the more we are exposed to images of violence, wrongdoing and corruption the more fearful we become.</i><br />
<br><br><br />
"Fearful people are more dependent, more easily manipulated and controlled, more suseptible to deceptively simple, strong, tough measures and hard-line postures," said van Gender. So what if we showed creativity, leadership and connectedness in the media? van Gender asked in the TED Talk. We need to understand the science of climate change,and the people creating the solutions. "We need to know about people dividing us, and bringing us together," she says, adding: "We need to know how buying too much stuff can undermine our own well being and the well being of the planet . . . we don't have the trash the planet to be healthy."<br />
<br><br />
So van Gelder set out to work in media, telling stories of what people are doing not only when they are at their worst, but when they are at their best, too. She sought to illuminate radical solutions and ideas. <br />
<br><br />
===What is solutions journalism or appreciative journalism?===<br />
<br><br />
The kind of journalism van Gelder seeks to practice asks these sorts of questions: <br />
<br><br />
*What's possible now? <br />
*What matters most? <br />
*What's working? <br />
*Who's leading? <br />
*How do we get to the root issues? <br />
*What would happen if this change took hold? <br />
<br><br />
Yes! Magazine does this under van Gelder's leadershi by publishing examples on things like jobs and livelihood. The magazine seeks to step outside the regular political dialogue, van Gelder says. The magazine's editorial philosophy, says van Gelder, is that "we the people have the answers no matter how tough the challenges" and that "good things happen are when we the people take control . . . there is a reason the word encourage has courage in it . . . it is those stories of courage that encourage us to take action. And it is our action that embodies the hope of our world." <br />
<br><br />
===Find and share appreciative, solutions journalism===<br />
<br><br />
Van Gelder's request at the end of her TED talk: For one month include one piece of appreciative, solutions journalism in your diet, and share it with a friend. "See if you are feeling less of the mean-world syndrome," she says. "And ask if you are seeing new opportunities to make the world more just and sustainable." Because, says, van Gelder: "The stories we pay attention to forms our sense of what's possible, what choices we have and it is the choices we make that will change history."<br />
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*[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Solutions-journalism-van-gelder Sarah van Gelder on how she "evolved" to solutions journalism after a trip to India]<br />
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<i>Sarah van Gelder is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Yes! Magazine, published by the non-profit Positive Futures Network on Bainbridge Island, Wash. She is among leaders of a new movement to promote so-called "solutions journalism." In a regional TED talk in Bellevue, Wash., in September, 2013, van Gender described how she came to support the idea. The 10-minute YouTube video can be watched from [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yHGFg0BKok HERE.] Here are excerpts of her remarks, which she entitled, "How to Get Inspiration Into Your Daily Media Diet"</i><br><br />
<hr><br />
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<i>(She talks about a trip to India as a young adult.)</i><br />
<br />
"Every day when I walked outside, I would be surrounded by swarms of beggars. I couldn't understand why in a country as ancient and beautiful as India people my own age were going hungry. That sent me on a life-long quest for answers -- why hunger, why poverty? What could I do? The mainstream media wasn't giving me much help. It was saturated with images of people rich and powerful or wanting to be rich and powerful. Poverty was addressed in a superficial charity mode."<br><br />
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<i>Van Gelder cites George Gerbner, the late dean of the Anneberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Gerbner, she recalls, said that people who control the stories of a culture control its behavior. that used to be parents, schools and religious leaders, van Gelder says, adding, now it is congolomerates. Gerbner also beleived that the more we are exposed to images of violence, wrongdoing and corruption the more fearful we become.</i><br />
<br><br><br />
"Fearful people are more dependent, more easily manipulated and controlled, more suseptible to deceptively simple, strong, tough measures and hard-line postures," said van Gender. So what if we showed creativity, leadership and connectedness in the media? van Gender asked in the TED Talk. We need to understand the science of climate change,and the people creating the solutions. "We need to know about people dividing us, and bringing us together," she says, adding: "We need to know how buying too much stuff can undermine our own well being and the well being of the planet . . . we don't have the trash the planet to be healthy."<br />
<br><br />
So van Gelder set out to work in media, telling stories of what people are doing not only when they are at their worst, but when they are at their best, too. She sought to illuminate radical solutions and ideas. <br />
<br><br />
===What is solutions journalism or appreciative journalism?===<br />
<br><br />
The kind of journalism van Gelder seeks to practice asks these sorts of questions: <br />
<br><br />
*What's possible now? <br />
*What matters most? <br />
*What's working? <br />
*Who's leading? <br />
*How do we get to the root issues? <br />
*What would happen if this change took hold? <br />
<br><br />
Yes! Magazine does this under van Gelder's leadershi by publishing examples on things like jobs and livelihood. The magazine seeks to step outside the regular political dialogue, van Gelder says. The magazine's editorial philosophy, says van Gelder, is that "we the people have the answers no matter how tough the challenges" and that "good things happen are when we the people take control . . . there is a reason the word encourage has courage in it . . . it is those stories of courage that encourage us to take action. And it is our action that embodies the hope of our world." <br />
<br><br />
===Find and share appreciative, solutions journalism===<br />
<br><br />
Van Gelder's request at the end of her TED talk: For one month include one piece of appreciative, solutions journalism in your diet, and share it with a friend. "See if you are feeling less of the mean-world syndrome," she says. "And ask if you are seeing new opportunities to make the world more just and sustainable." Because, says, van Gelder: "The stories we pay attention to forms our sense of what's possible, what choices we have and it is the choices we make that will change history."</div>Bill Densmorehttps://mgpwiki.mediagiraffe.org//index.php?title=Solutions-journalism-van-gelder&diff=236874Solutions-journalism-van-gelder2015-03-19T18:02:32Z<p>Bill Densmore: </p>
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===Extracted by Bill Densmore===<br />
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<i>Sarah van Gelder is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Yes! Magazine, published by the non-profit Positive Futures Network on Bainbridge Island, Wash. She is among leaders of a new movement to promote so-called "solutions journalism." In a regional TED talk in Bellevue, Wash., in September, 2013, van Gender described how she came to support the idea. The 10-minute YouTube video can be watched from [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yHGFg0BKok HERE.] Here are excerpts of her remarks, which she entitled, "How to Get Inspiration Into Your Daily Media Diet"</i><br><br />
<hr><br />
<br />
<i>(She talks about a trip to India as a young adult.)</i><br />
<br />
"Every day when I walked outside, I would be surrounded by swarms of beggars. I couldn't understand why in a country as ancient and beautiful as India people my own age were going hungry. That sent me on a life-long quest for answers -- why hunger, why poverty? What could I do? The mainstream media wasn't giving me much help. It was saturated with images of people rich and powerful or wanting to be rich and powerful. Poverty was addressed in a superficial charity mode."<br><br />
<br />
<i>Van Gelder cites George Gerbner, the late dean of the Anneberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Gerbner, she recalls, said that people who control the stories of a culture control its behavior. that used to be parents, schools and religious leaders, van Gelder says, adding, now it is congolomerates. Gerbner also beleived that the more we are exposed to images of violence, wrongdoing and corruption the more fearful we become.</i><br />
<br><br><br />
"Fearful people are more dependent, more easily manipulated and controlled, more suseptible to deceptively simple, strong, tough measures and hard-line postures," said van Gender. So what if we showed creativity, leadership and connectedness in the media? van Gender asked in the TED Talk. We need to understand the science of climate change,and the people creating the solutions. "We need to know about people dividing us, and bringing us together," she says, adding: "We need to know how buying too much stuff can undermine our own well being and the well being of the planet . . . we don't have the trash the planet to be healthy."<br />
<br><br />
So van Gelder set out to work in media, telling stories of what people are doing not only when they are at their worst, but when they are at their best, too. She sought to illuminate radical solutions and ideas. <br />
<br><br />
===What is solutions journalism or appreciative journalism?===<br />
<br><br />
The kind of journalism van Gelder seeks to practice asks these sorts of questions: <br />
<br><br />
*What's possible now? <br />
*What matters most? <br />
*What's working? <br />
*Who's leading? <br />
*How do we get to the root issues? <br />
*What would happen if this change took hold? <br />
<br><br />
Yes! Magazine does this under van Gelder's leadershi by publishing examples on things like jobs and livelihood. The magazine seeks to step outside the regular political dialogue, van Gelder says. The magazine's editorial philosophy, says van Gelder, is that "we the people have the answers no matter how tough the challenges" and that "good things happen are when we the people take control . . . there is a reason the word encourage has courage in it . . . it is those stories of courage that encourage us to take action. And it is our action that embodies the hope of our world." <br />
<br><br />
===Find and share appreciative, solutions journalism===<br />
<br><br />
Van Gelder's request at the end of her TED talk: For one month include one piece of appreciative, solutions journalism in your diet, and share it with a friend. "See if you are feeling less of the mean-world syndrome," she says. "And ask if you are seeing new opportunities to make the world more just and sustainable." Because, says, van Gelder: "The stories we pay attention to forms our sense of what's possible, what choices we have and it is the choices we make that will change history."</div>Bill Densmorehttps://mgpwiki.mediagiraffe.org//index.php?title=Solutions-journalism-van-gelder&diff=236873Solutions-journalism-van-gelder2015-03-19T18:01:47Z<p>Bill Densmore: </p>
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===Extracted by Bill Densmore===<br />
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<i>Sarah van Gelder is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Yes! Magazine, published by the non-profit Positive Futures Network on Bainbridge Island, Wash. She is among leaders of a new movement to promote so-called "solutions journalism." In a regional TED talk in Bellevue, Wash., in September, 2013, van Gender described how she came to support the idea. The 10-minute YouTube video can be watched from [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yHGFg0BKok HERE.] Here are excerpts of her remarks, which she entitled, "How to Get Inspiration Into Your Daily Media Diet"</i><br><br />
<hr><br />
<br />
<i>(She talks about a trip to India as a young adult.)</i><br />
<br />
"Every day when I walked outside, I would be surrounded by swarms of beggars. I couldn't understand why in a country as ancient and beautiful as India people my own age were going hungry. That sent me on a life-long quest for answers -- why hunger, why poverty? What could I do? The mainstream media wasn't giving me much help. It was saturated with images of people rich and powerful or wanting to be rich and powerful. Poverty was addressed in a superficial charity mode."<br><br />
<br />
<i>Van Gelder cites George Gerbner, the late dean of the Anneberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Gerbner, she recalls, said that people who control the stories of a culture control its behavior. that used to be parents, schools and religious leaders, van Gelder says, adding, now it is congolomerates. Gerbner also beleived that the more we are exposed to images of violence, wrongdoing and corruption the more fearful we become.</i><br />
<br><br />
"Fearful people are more dependent, more easily manipulated and controlled, more suseptible to deceptively simple, strong, tough measures and hard-line postures," said van Gender. So what if we showed creativity, leadership and connectedness in the media? van Gender asked in the TED Talk. We need to understand the science of climate change,and the people creating the solutions. "We need to know about people dividing us, and bringing us together," she says, adding: "We need to know how buying too much stuff can undermine our own well being and the well being of the planet . . . we don't have the trash the planet to be healthy."<br />
<br><br />
So van Gelder set out to work in media, telling stories of what people are doing not only when they are at their worst, but when they are at their best, too. She sought to illuminate radical solutions and ideas. <br />
<br><br />
===What is solutions journalism or appreciative journalism?===<br />
<br><br />
The kind of journalism van Gelder seeks to practice asks these sorts of questions: <br />
<br><br />
*What's possible now? <br />
*What matters most? <br />
*What's working? <br />
*Who's leading? <br />
*How do we get to the root issues? <br />
*What would happen if this change took hold? <br />
<br><br />
Yes! Magazine does this under van Gelder's leadershi by publishing examples on things like jobs and livelihood. The magazine seeks to step outside the regular political dialogue, van Gelder says. The magazine's editorial philosophy, says van Gelder, is that "we the people have the answers no matter how tough the challenges" and that "good things happen are when we the people take control . . . there is a reason the word encourage has courage in it . . . it is those stories of courage that encourage us to take action. And it is our action that embodies the hope of our world." <br />
<br><br />
===Find and share appreciative, solutions journalism===<br />
<br><br />
Van Gelder's request at the end of her TED talk: For one month include one piece of appreciative, solutions journalism in your diet, and share it with a friend. "See if you are feeling less of the mean-world syndrome," she says. "And ask if you are seeing new opportunities to make the world more just and sustainable." Because, says, van Gelder: "The stories we pay attention to forms our sense of what's possible, what choices we have and it is the choices we make that will change history."</div>Bill Densmorehttps://mgpwiki.mediagiraffe.org//index.php?title=Solutions-journalism-van-gelder&diff=236872Solutions-journalism-van-gelder2015-03-19T18:01:28Z<p>Bill Densmore: New page: =Sarah van Gelder's evolutionary journey to support "solutions journalism"= ===Transcription by Bill Densmore=== <i>Sarah van Gelder is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Yes! Magazine, p...</p>
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<div>=Sarah van Gelder's evolutionary journey to support "solutions journalism"=<br />
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===Transcription by Bill Densmore===<br />
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<i>Sarah van Gelder is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Yes! Magazine, published by the non-profit Positive Futures Network on Bainbridge Island, Wash. She is among leaders of a new movement to promote so-called "solutions journalism." In a regional TED talk in Bellevue, Wash., in September, 2013, van Gender described how she came to support the idea. The 10-minute YouTube video can be watched from [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yHGFg0BKok HERE.] Here are excerpts of her remarks, which she entitled, "How to Get Inspiration Into Your Daily Media Diet"</i><br><br />
<hr><br />
<br />
<i>(She talks about a trip to India as a young adult.)</i><br />
<br />
"Every day when I walked outside, I would be surrounded by swarms of beggars. I couldn't understand why in a country as ancient and beautiful as India people my own age were going hungry. That sent me on a life-long quest for answers -- why hunger, why poverty? What could I do? The mainstream media wasn't giving me much help. It was saturated with images of people rich and powerful or wanting to be rich and powerful. Poverty was addressed in a superficial charity mode."<br><br />
<br />
<i>Van Gelder cites George Gerbner, the late dean of the Anneberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Gerbner, she recalls, said that people who control the stories of a culture control its behavior. that used to be parents, schools and religious leaders, van Gelder says, adding, now it is congolomerates. Gerbner also beleived that the more we are exposed to images of violence, wrongdoing and corruption the more fearful we become.</i><br />
<br><br />
"Fearful people are more dependent, more easily manipulated and controlled, more suseptible to deceptively simple, strong, tough measures and hard-line postures," said van Gender. So what if we showed creativity, leadership and connectedness in the media? van Gender asked in the TED Talk. We need to understand the science of climate change,and the people creating the solutions. "We need to know about people dividing us, and bringing us together," she says, adding: "We need to know how buying too much stuff can undermine our own well being and the well being of the planet . . . we don't have the trash the planet to be healthy."<br />
<br><br />
So van Gelder set out to work in media, telling stories of what people are doing not only when they are at their worst, but when they are at their best, too. She sought to illuminate radical solutions and ideas. <br />
<br><br />
===What is solutions journalism or appreciative journalism?===<br />
<br><br />
The kind of journalism van Gelder seeks to practice asks these sorts of questions: <br />
<br><br />
*What's possible now? <br />
*What matters most? <br />
*What's working? <br />
*Who's leading? <br />
*How do we get to the root issues? <br />
*What would happen if this change took hold? <br />
<br><br />
Yes! Magazine does this under van Gelder's leadershi by publishing examples on things like jobs and livelihood. The magazine seeks to step outside the regular political dialogue, van Gelder says. The magazine's editorial philosophy, says van Gelder, is that "we the people have the answers no matter how tough the challenges" and that "good things happen are when we the people take control . . . there is a reason the word encourage has courage in it . . . it is those stories of courage that encourage us to take action. And it is our action that embodies the hope of our world." <br />
<br><br />
===Find and share appreciative, solutions journalism===<br />
<br><br />
Van Gelder's request at the end of her TED talk: For one month include one piece of appreciative, solutions journalism in your diet, and share it with a friend. "See if you are feeling less of the mean-world syndrome," she says. "And ask if you are seeing new opportunities to make the world more just and sustainable." Because, says, van Gelder: "The stories we pay attention to forms our sense of what's possible, what choices we have and it is the choices we make that will change history."</div>Bill Densmorehttps://mgpwiki.mediagiraffe.org//index.php?title=Solutions-journalism&diff=236871Solutions-journalism2015-03-19T18:00:47Z<p>Bill Densmore: </p>
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===Transcription by Bill Densmore===<br />
<br />
<i>Sarah van Gelder is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Yes! Magazine, published by the non-profit Positive Futures Network on Bainbridge Island, Wash. She is among leaders of a new movement to promote so-called "solutions journalism." In a regional TED talk in Bellevue, Wash., in September, 2013, van Gender described how she came to support the idea. The 10-minute YouTube video can be watched from [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yHGFg0BKok HERE.] Here are excerpts of her remarks, which she entitled, "How to Get Inspiration Into Your Daily Media Diet"</i><br><br />
<hr><br />
<br />
<i>(She talks about a trip to India as a young adult.)</i><br />
<br />
"Every day when I walked outside, I would be surrounded by swarms of beggars. I couldn't understand why in a country as ancient and beautiful as India people my own age were going hungry. That sent me on a life-long quest for answers -- why hunger, why poverty? What could I do? The mainstream media wasn't giving me much help. It was saturated with images of people rich and powerful or wanting to be rich and powerful. Poverty was addressed in a superficial charity mode."<br><br />
<br />
<i>Van Gelder cites George Gerbner, the late dean of the Anneberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Gerbner, she recalls, said that people who control the stories of a culture control its behavior. that used to be parents, schools and religious leaders, van Gelder says, adding, now it is congolomerates. Gerbner also beleived that the more we are exposed to images of violence, wrongdoing and corruption the more fearful we become.</i><br />
<br><br />
"Fearful people are more dependent, more easily manipulated and controlled, more suseptible to deceptively simple, strong, tough measures and hard-line postures," said van Gender. So what if we showed creativity, leadership and connectedness in the media? van Gender asked in the TED Talk. We need to understand the science of climate change,and the people creating the solutions. "We need to know about people dividing us, and bringing us together," she says, adding: "We need to know how buying too much stuff can undermine our own well being and the well being of the planet . . . we don't have the trash the planet to be healthy."<br />
<br><br />
So van Gelder set out to work in media, telling stories of what people are doing not only when they are at their worst, but when they are at their best, too. She sought to illuminate radical solutions and ideas. <br />
<br><br />
===What is solutions journalism or appreciative journalism?===<br />
<br><br />
The kind of journalism van Gelder seeks to practice asks these sorts of questions: <br />
<br><br />
*What's possible now? <br />
*What matters most? <br />
*What's working? <br />
*Who's leading? <br />
*How do we get to the root issues? <br />
*What would happen if this change took hold? <br />
<br><br />
Yes! Magazine does this under van Gelder's leadershi by publishing examples on things like jobs and livelihood. The magazine seeks to step outside the regular political dialogue, van Gelder says. The magazine's editorial philosophy, says van Gelder, is that "we the people have the answers no matter how tough the challenges" and that "good things happen are when we the people take control . . . there is a reason the word encourage has courage in it . . . it is those stories of courage that encourage us to take action. And it is our action that embodies the hope of our world." <br />
<br><br />
===Find and share appreciative, solutions journalism===<br />
<br><br />
Van Gelder's request at the end of her TED talk: For one month include one piece of appreciative, solutions journalism in your diet, and share it with a friend. "See if you are feeling less of the mean-world syndrome," she says. "And ask if you are seeing new opportunities to make the world more just and sustainable." Because, says, van Gelder: "The stories we pay attention to forms our sense of what's possible, what choices we have and it is the choices we make that will change history."</div>Bill Densmorehttps://mgpwiki.mediagiraffe.org//index.php?title=Solutions-journalism&diff=236870Solutions-journalism2015-03-19T18:00:34Z<p>Bill Densmore: </p>
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===Transcription by Bill Densmore===<br />
<br />
<i>Sarah van Gelder is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Yes! Magazine, published by the non-profit Positive Futures Network on Bainbridge Island, Wash. She is among leaders of a new movement to promote so-called "solutions journalism." In a regional TED talk in Bellevue, Wash., in September, 2013, van Gender described how she came to support the idea. The 10-minute YouTube video can be watched from [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yHGFg0BKok HERE.] Here are excerpts of her remarks, which she entitled, "How to Get Inspiration Into Your Daily Media Diet"</i><br><br />
<hr><br />
<br />
<i>(She talks about a trip to India as a young adult.)</i><br />
<br />
"Every day when I walked outside, I would be surrounded by swarms of beggars. I couldn't understand why in a country as ancient and beautiful as India people my own age were going hungry. That sent me on a life-long quest for answers -- why hunger, why poverty? What could I do? The mainstream media wasn't giving me much help. It was saturated with images of people rich and powerful or wanting to be rich and powerful. Poverty was addressed in a superficial charity mode."<br><br />
<br />
<i>Van Gelder cites George Gerbner, the late dean of the Anneberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Gerbner, she recalls, said that people who control the stories of a culture control its behavior. that used to be parents, schools and religious leaders, van Gelder says, adding, now it is congolomerates. Gerbner also beleived that the more we are exposed to images of violence, wrongdoing and corruption the more fearful we become.</i><br />
<br><br />
"Fearful people are more dependent, more easily manipulated and controlled, more suseptible to deceptively simple, strong, tough measures and hard-line postures," said van Gender. So what if we showed creativity, leadership and connectedness in the media? van Gender asked in the TED Talk. We need to understand the science of climate change,and the people creating the solutions. "We need to know about people dividing us, and bringing us together," she says, adding: "We need to know how buying too much stuff can undermine our own well being and the well being of the planet . . . we don't have the trash the planet to be healthy."<br />
<br><br />
So van Gelder set out to work in media, telling stories of what people are doing not only when they are at their worst, but when they are at their best, too. She sought to illuminate radical solutions and ideas. <br />
<br><br />
===What is solutions journalism or appreciative journalism?===<br />
<br><br />
The kind of journalism van Gelder seeks to practice asks these sorts of questions: <br />
<br><br />
*What's possible now? <br />
*What matters most? <br />
*What's working? <br />
*Who's leading? <br />
*How do we get to the root issues? <br />
*What would happen if this change took hold? <br />
<br><br />
Yes! Magazine does this under van Gelder's leadershi by publishing examples on things like jobs and livelihood. The magazine seeks to step outside the regular political dialogue, van Gelder says. The magazine's editorial philosophy, says van Gelder, is that "we the people have the answers no matter how tough the challenges" and that "good things happen are when we the people take control . . . there is a reason the word encourage has courage in it . . . it is those stories of courage that encourage us to take action. And it is our action that embodies the hope of our world." <br />
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===Find and share appreciative, solutions journalism===<br />
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Van Gelder's request at the end of her TED talk: For one month include one piece of appreciative, solutions journalism in your diet, and share it with a friend. "See if you are feeling less of the mean-world syndrome," she says. "And ask if you are seeing new opportunities to make the world more just and sustainable." Because, says, van Gelder: "The stories we pay attention to forms our sense of what's possible, what choices we have and it is the choices we make that will change history."</div>Bill Densmorehttps://mgpwiki.mediagiraffe.org//index.php?title=Solutions-journalism&diff=236869Solutions-journalism2015-03-19T17:53:18Z<p>Bill Densmore: New page: =Sarah van Gelder evolutionary journey to support "solutions journalism"= ===Transcription by Bill Densmore=== <i>Sarah van Gelder is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Yes! Magazine, pub...</p>
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<div>=Sarah van Gelder evolutionary journey to support "solutions journalism"=<br />
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<i>Sarah van Gelder is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Yes! Magazine, published by the non-profit Positive Futures Network on Bainbridge Island, Wash. She is among leaders of a new movement to promote so-called "solutions journalism." In a regional TED talk in Bellevue, Wash., in September, 2013, van Gender described how she came to support the idea. The 10-minutes YouTube video can be watched from [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yHGFg0BKok HERE.] Here are excerpts of her remarks, which she entitled, "How to Get Inspiration Into Your Daily Media Diet"</i><br />
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<i>(She talks about a trip to India as a young adult.)</i><br />
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"Every day when I walked outside, I would be surrounded by swarms of beggars. I couldn't understand why in a country as ancient and beautiful as India people my own age were going hungry. That sent me on a life-long quest for answers -- why hunger, why poverty? What could I do? The mainstream media wasn't giving me much help. It was saturated with images of people rich and powerful or wanting to be rich and powerful. Poverty was addressed in a superficial charity mode."<br />
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<i>Van Gelder cites George Gerbner, the late dean of the Anneberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Gerbner, she recalls, said that people who control the stories of a culture control its behavior. that used to be parents, schools and religious leaders, van Gelder says, adding, now it is congolomerates. Gerbner also beleived that the more we are exposed to images of violence, wrongdoing and corruption the more fearful we become.</i><br />
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"Fearful people are more dependent, more easily manipulated and controlled, more suseptible to deceptively simple, strong, tough measures and hard-line postures," said van Gender. So what if we showed creativity, leadership and connectedness in the media? van Gender asked in the TED Talk. We need to understand the science of climate change,and the people creating the solutions. "We need to know about people dividing us, and bringing us together," she says, adding: "We need to know how buying too much stuff can undermine our own well being and the well being of the planet . . . we don't have the trash the planet to be healthy."<br />
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So van Gelder set out to work in media, telling stories of what people are doing not only when they are at their worst, but when they are at their best, too. She sought to illuminate radical solutions and ideas. <br />
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===What is solutions journalism or appreciative journalism?===<br />
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The kind of journalism van Gelder seeks to practice asks these sorts of questions: <br />
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*What's possible now? <br />
*What matters most? <br />
*What's working? <br />
*Who's leading? <br />
*How do we get to the root issues? <br />
*What would happen if this change took hold? <br />
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Yes! Magazine does this under van Gelder's leadershi by publishing examples on things like jobs and livelihood. The magazine seeks to step outside the regular political dialogue, van Gelder says. The magazine's editorial philosophy, says van Gelder, is that "we the people have the answers no matter how tough the challenges" and that "good things happen are when we the people take control . . . there is a reason the word encourage has courage in it . . . it is those stories of courage that encourage us to take action. And it is our action that embodies the hope of our world." <br />
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===Find and share appreciative, solutions journalism===<br />
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Van Gelder's request at the end of her TED talk: For one month include one piece of appreciative, solutions journalism in your diet, and share it with a friend. "See if you are feeling less of the mean-world syndrome," she says. "And ask if you are seeing new opportunities to make the world more just and sustainable." Because, says, van Gelder: "The stories we pay attention to forms our sense of what's possible, what choices we have and it is the choices we make that will change history."</div>Bill Densmorehttps://mgpwiki.mediagiraffe.org//index.php?title=Jtm-dc-Faye_Anderson&diff=236868Jtm-dc-Faye Anderson2015-02-25T20:05:00Z<p>Bill Densmore: </p>
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Faye M. Anderson is a citizen journalist. Anderson@Large, a featured blog of Typepad.com, was included in the first scholarly research examining the role of black bloggers and the blogosphere published by the International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society.<br />
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Faye is particularly interested in the intersection of technology and civic engagement, and how citizens are using new media to influence public policy. She was among a select group of bloggers credentialed to cover the "All-American Presidential Forums on PBS," moderated by Tavis Smiley. Faye's bio is available at: http://andersonatlarge.typepad.com/about.html<br />
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Faye M. Anderson is a citizen journalist. Anderson@Large, a featured blog of Typepad.com, was included in the first scholarly research examining the role of black bloggers and the blogosphere published by the International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society.<br />
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Faye is particularly interested in the intersection of technology and civic engagement, and how citizens are using new media to influence public policy. She was among a select group of bloggers credentialed to cover the "All-American Presidential Forums on PBS," moderated by Tavis Smiley. Faye's bio is available at: http://andersonatlarge.typepad.com/about.html<br />
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=<U>DOCUMENTING "REBOOTING THE NEWS"</U>=<br />
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This is the home page for the "Rebooting the News" conference held Oct. 23-25, 2008, at the National Constitution Center and Temple University in Philadelphia. We have posted links to resources, photos and reports produced by participants, and links to their related projects. If you have updates to a project underway, email information to jtm@mediagiraffe.org. </h4><br />
<hr>[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Reboot-statement VIEW CONSENSUS STATEMENT]<hr><br />
==Active resources==<br />
*A new study by <i>Reboot</i> participant Paul Mihailidis finds media-literacy programs don't always teach the critical role of the press. [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Reboot-mihailidis (LEARN MORE)]<br />
*Participant Frank Baker is building a resource page of [http://www.frankwbaker.com/rebooting_news_standards.htm STATE CURRICULUM FRAMEWORKS]<br />
*Participants are joining and collaborating on [http://rebootingthenews.ning.com THE REBOOTING SOCIAL NETWORK SITE]<br />
*Kristin Hokanson's analysis: [http://khokanson.blogspot.com/2008/10/rebooting-newswhat-are-critical-skills.html What are the critical skills?]<br />
*[http://theconnectedclassroom.wikispaces.com/Rebooting_the_News LIVE BLOG/ARCHIVED RECORDINGS] (from Kristin Hokanson)<br />
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==Text reports==<br />
*Participant Lena Consolini's [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/reboot-slj School Library Journal] article on "Rebooting the News"<br />
*More than 20 "Rebooting" participants signed a [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Reboot-statement consensus statement on the need for news literacy].<br />
*[http://mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Reboot-sessions LINKS TO BREAKOUT SESSION REPORTS]<br />
**Ideas about [http://mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Reboot-notes-outcomes Best possible outcomes]<br />
**Our brainstorming [http://mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Reboot-notes-cafe-report cafe session report]<br />
**[http://mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Reboot-definition Defining news literacy] (and link to Schneider talk)<br />
**[http://mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Reboot-saturday Saturday morning session notes]<br />
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==Video streams==<br />
*Participant [http://theconnectedclassroom.org/Home.html Kristin Hokanson] documented much of our work in low-resolution video available for streaming or download from UstreamTV. [http://www.ustream.tv/channel/rebooting-the-news LINK TO VIDEO.]<br />
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==Photo galleries==<br />
*Participant Fabrice Florin loaded a [http://www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/tags/rebootingthenews/show/ SLIDE SHOW] of our activity / (or [http://www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/tags/rebootingthenews/ view individually]<br />
*Flickr tagging of [http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=reboot-signs&w=23127534%40N00 Reboot event posted signs] / view as [http://www.flickr.com/search/show/?q=reboot-signs&w=23127534%40N00 SLIDE SHOW.]<br />
*Flickr tagging of [http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=23127534%40N00&q=reboot-white-boards&m=text Reboot white boards] / view as [http://www.flickr.com/search/show/?q=reboot-white-boards&w=23127534%40N00 SLIDE SHOW.]<br />
*View the [http://www.flickr.com/photos/mediagiraffe/sets/72157608581011723/ WHOLE SET OF REBOOT PHOTOS] / view as a [http://www.flickr.com/photos/mediagiraffe/sets/72157608581011723/show/ SLIDE SHOW]<br />
*View [http://picasaweb.google.com/medialit.korea/RebootingTheNews Jiwon Koon's Picasa photo set (lots of group shots)]<br />
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==Pre-event pages==<br />
*[http://mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Reboot-news NEWS ABOUT THE EVENT/PARTICIPANTS]<br />
*[http://mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Reboot-resources PARTICIPANT PROJECTS/RESOURCES]<br />
*[http://mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Reboot-invitees WHO PARTICIPATED]<br />
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==Other resources==<br />
*Here is the [http://mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Reboot-program program schedule] for the event<br />
*[http://twitter.com/jtmstream FOLLOW THE TWITTER STREAM]<br />
*[http://new.mediagiraffe.org/blog/2 BLOG UPDATES]<br />
*Custom Newstrust [http://newstrust.net/signup/conf SIGNUP PAGE] for Reboot conference participants <br />
*Fabrice Florin's [http://media.newstrust.net/slides/NewsTrustSlides.zip NewsTrust Powerpoint] (zip file) <br />
*Fabrice Florin's [http://media.newstrust.net/slides/NewsTrustSlides.pdf NewsTrust Powerpoint] (as PDF slides) <br />
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==What are you doing?==<br />
If you have posted a blog or story about "Rebooting the News," please let us know by email to jtm@mediagiraffe.org . . . we'd like to link back to you.<br />
And tell us what you're doing in your domain to increase public interest in news literacy.<br />
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Finally, don't forget to sign up for the social networking site:<br />
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http://rebootingthenews.ning.com<br />
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==A short, strategic convening for journalists to find common purpose with teachers, educational administrators and public-policy researchers on the meaning and teaching of news literacy==<br />
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PHILADELPHIA, Penn. – As the Internet increasingly puts two-way communication tools into the hands of all citizens, American teen-agers should be taught techniques for analyzing and creating news, a group of educators, scholars and journalists has recommended. <br />
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Nearly 70 journalists, educators, new media professional and high school students gathered in Philadelphia for “Rebooting the News: Reconsidering an Agenda for American Civic Education,” a conference co-sponsored by the National Constitution Center, Temple University Media Education Laboratory and The Media Giraffe Project at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. <br />
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“Because news surrounds us, news literacy is an essential life skill for everyone,” says a statement adopted signed by a group of conference participants. “To paraphrase Thomas Jefferson: Knowledge of current issues is essential to informed citizenship in a democracy. People are concerned about the effects of media on youth and others. Modern participatory culture makes every citizen a potential creator of news in social media, blogs, email and the web. Citizens need to understand the purposes, processes and economics of news.”<br />
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According to the conference participants, “News literacy is defined as the acquisition of 21st-century, critical-thinking skills for analyzing and judging the reliability of news, differentiating among facts, opinions and assertions in the media we create and distribute. It can be taught most effectively in cross-curricular, inquiry-based formats at all grade levels. It is a necessary component for literacy in contemporary society.”<br />
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At the kickoff event at Philadelphia’s National Constitution Center, Margaret Duffy of the University of Missouri’s School of Journalism spoke about the changing news and media usage habits of young adults. Fabrice Florin, a distinguished technology expert, shared his work building an online community of news readers at NewsTrust.net. Steve Yelvington, an online journalist formerly of the Minneapolis Star Tribune, shared thoughts about the past, present and future of journalism’s mission and civic purposes. <br />
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On Friday, Howard Schneider, dean of the School of Journalism at University of New York, Stony Brook offered a keynote address on news literacy, describing his innovative model for teaching about the news to university students. On Saturday, Mark Goodman, head of the Center for Scholastic Journalism at Kent State, offered a keynote on the legal challenges faced by student journalists today. <br />
Using a democratic conference format where participants themselves offered up questions, topics and issues to shape the conference agenda, questions focused on the actual practices for developing news and media literacy and the use of online and social media tools for developing civic engagement in the context of elementary, secondary and higher education. <br />
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Questions included: What does news literacy look and sound like in K-12 classrooms? Is it possible to laugh at our political process without disengaging from it? How do we train teachers effectively for implementing news literacy? How can we utilize online tools to promote news literacy? Can student journalism programs build news literacy skills? Why or why not? <br />
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The diverse nature of the conference participants created many opportunities for learning and sharing. Participants included Brian Doyle, a media literacy educator just graduated from Old Miss where he was editor of his college newspaper, Jackie Kain, head of new media at KCET Los Angeles, Jeannine Cook of Philadelphia’s Youth Empowerment Services which runs a media program for out-of-school youth, and Diana Mitsu-Clos of the American Society of Newspaper Editors in Washington, D.C. among many others. In addition to educators and journalists, high school students from the Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia participated in the conference, sharing their insights about media, technology, and news and current events. <br />
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According to conference host Renee Hobbs of Temple University, “Educators and journalists are both stakeholders in helping the next generation of young people understand how to critically analyze information sources, especially news and current events.”<br />
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Other topics explored the issue of how news and media literacy depends upon a robust interpretation of copyright and fair use; the difference between skepticism and cynicism; the blurring of the roles of producer and consumer; and the challenge of encouraging youth civic engagement in authoritarian education environments.<br />
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="Rebooting the News:<br>Reconsidering An Agenda for 21st Century Civic Education"<br><br>A CONVENING: Oct. 23-25, 2008 / Philadelphia=<br />
<h3>LOCATIONS: [http://www.temple.edu/tucc/conference/conference.htm Temple University downtown conference center,] Center City<br>1515 Market St. / Philadelphia, PA 19102 and the <br>[http://constitutioncenter.org/ National Constitution Center,] Independence Mall, 525 Arch Street.</h3><br />
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<h4>Conference hotel: [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Reboot-lodging Holiday Inn Express] / 1305-11 Walnut St. / Philadelphia PA 19107 / 215-735-9300] </H4><br />
<hr>[http://mediagiraffe.org/reboot.html ORIGINAL INVITATION] . . . <hr><br />
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In spring 2005, the Carnegie Corporation of New York commissioned noted U.S. editor Merrill Brown to write a report, [http://www.carnegie.org/reporter/10/news/index.html "Abandoning the News,"] which examined how the nation's news organizations, struggling with changing business models and demographics, were devoting fewer and fewer resources to newsrooms. But Brown also saw the problem as one of demand, not just supply, when he wrote:<br />
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<ul><ul>''In short, the future of the U.S. news industry is seriously threatened by the seemingly irrevocable move by young people away from traditional sources of news.''<br />
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Indeed, American teen-agers are abandoning traditional news products in large numbers, or simply failing to engage with the ''news'' as they mature. In homes and classrooms, students are failing to receive the information they need to make informed decisions as voters and citizens. Yet they are [http://www.newenglandnews.org/?q=node/234 highly engaged] with ''media'' in [http://digitallearning.macfound.org/site/c.enJLKQNlFiG/b.2108775/apps/nl/content2.asp?content_id={68ADB304-A991-462E-BFEA-3B2C3EC7E22C}&notoc=1 multiple forms.] <br />
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Over the last three years, some foundations and institutions have recognizing the significance of these changes on participatory democracy. They have launched new [http://www.newschallenge.org/center_for_future_civic_media research] or [http://www.acmecoalition.org/bill_densmore/11102007/stony_brook_adds_200k_support_ford_start_news_literacy_education_center curriculum initiatives] aimed at assessing or [http://www.acmecoalition.org/bill_densmore/28092007/experiment_underway_stony_brook_teaching_media_literacy_all_college_students improving] the situation. <br />
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This year, the American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE) adopted news literacy as a critical focus for its membership. Stony Brook University's journalism of school is pioneering curriculum projects and plans a major conference in March, 2009. Together, Carnegie and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation [http://www.knightfoundation.org/news/press_room/knight_press_releases/detail.dot?id=332167 have committed $11 million] to develop a new approach to journalism teaching at the college level. <br />
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At "Rebooting the News," we will observe and learn about these initiatives in the newsroom and the college classroom, but focus more particularly on the relationship between the news and K-12 education. Is it time to reconsider how America's schools engage young adults in our civic sphere, and how can the Internet, news -- and journalism -- help?<br />
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We'll build new connections, tap and energize the emerging consensus for a deeper relationship of shared aims, values and beliefs among America's journalists and educators. Both have a vital interest in teaching youth to be smart consumers -- and creators -- of civic media.<br />
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== Rebooting the News: Reconsidering an Agenda for American Civic Education == <br />
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To assist these efforts an invited group of up to 60 journalists, researchers, scholars, educators, teachers, administrators, policy makers and leaders of non-profit and cultural organizations will convene Oct. 23-25, 2008, in the cradle of American democracy -- Philadelphia -- for "Rebooting the News: Reconsidering an Agenda for American Civic Education." <br />
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Meeting at Temple University, we intend to:<br />
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*Learn about the ASNE initiative<br />
*Prepare for the major March 2009 convening at Stony Brook<br />
*Share knowledge about independent projects and research<br />
*Examine "best practices" in teaching about the news media to K-12 and higher education students<br />
*Review competing or parallel news/media-literacy paradigms <br />
*Assess the role of news and news organizations in solutions<br />
*Consider the value of new national policy strategies<br />
*Adopt recommendations for journalists and educators<br />
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===EXPECTED OUTCOME===<br />
"Rebooting the News: Setting an Agenda for American Civic Education," is a critical examination of the relationship among media, news and U.S. public education, the projects underway and a charting of the most promising directions. Our goal is ideas and recommendations distilled into a post-event report for rebooting the news -- making its presentation and content relevant both to a new generation and to democracy's requirement for an informed, engaged electorate. <br />
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===Identifying assumptions and best practices===<br />
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At part of "Rebooting the News," we'll identify assumptions that underlie programs in news literacy, take a close look at “best practices” at the heart of such programs, and identify the kinds of research questions that are emerging as this work moves forward. For example, do the steeply declining rates of news readership suggest that people find traditional approaches to news presentation less relevant to their needs for monitoring and participating in their communities, nations and world?<br />
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[[Image:Renee-hobbsT.jpg|90px|thumb|right| [http://mediaeducationlab.com/index.php?page=56 Renee Hobbs]]]<br />
====Location, co-conveners====<br />
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Temple University's Media Education Laboratory, founded by [http://mediaeducationlab.com/index.php?page=56 Renee Hobbs,] will host this knowledge-sharing, review, assessment and solution planning in partnership with the [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/about The Media Giraffe Project] at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, the National Constitution Center, the Reynolds Journalism Institute at the Missouri School of Journalism and other co-convenors. We'll use Temple's facilities in Center City just blocks from Independence Hall. Over an afternoon, evening and two days, we'll use a combination of short presentations, round-table discussions and "open-space" breakout sessions organized by participants. We'll include lots of time for information networking and mini projects. We'll learn about ASNE's initiatives and capacities, and learn about Stony Brook's early spring gathering. <br />
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[[Image:Jtm-logoS.jpg|90px|thumb|left|[http://www.journalismthatmatters.org Journalism That Matters]]]<br />
[[Image:Rji-logo.jpg|70px|thumb|right|[http://rji.missouri.edu/vision-and-mission/index.php Reynolds Journalism Institute]]]<br />
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Among other co-conveners:<br />
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*[http://www.highschooljournalism.org/Content.cfm?id=192 The American Society of Newspaper Editors]<br />
*[http://www.journalismthatmatters.org The Journalism That Matters collaborative] / (hosted by the Media Giraffe Project) <br />
*[http://newmedialiteracies.org/ The New Media Literacies project at MIT,] Cambridge, Mass.<br />
*[http://www2.tidescenter.org/directory/project_detail_new.cfm?id=60356 The News Literacy Project,] Bethesda, Md. (formerly Appleseed)<br />
*[http://rji.missouri.edu The Reynolds Journalism Institute] at the Missouri School of Journalism, Columbia, Mo.<br />
*Kent State University School of Journalism and Mass Communication<br />
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==WHAT WE'LL CONSIDER [http://mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Reboot-program (draft program)]==<br />
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Some of the things we expect "Reboot the News" to consider: <br />
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*Assessing the value of student-created media</h4><br />
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New media forms, such as YouTube, present significant evolving uncertainties about trust, sourcing and reliability which magnify the need to offer students skills to access, analyze, evaluate, and produce media. Ideas about adding new media to the classroom are widely available, but little research exists on how media are used, or about the pedagogical value of media works created by students with civic purpose. How can we best promote interest in news and current events as well as critical analysis and evaluation skills among young people and non-journalists? <br />
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*Testing without civic component -- undermining frameworks?</h4><br />
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Many states have civics education requirements as part of the curriculum. They include valuable basic instruction on government such as the Constitution, the balance of powers, and how a bill becomes a law. Some state curriculum frameworks also encourage media-literacy education. However, is the growing reliance on "teach-to-the-test" -- where test questions don't cover civics or news literacy -- made such frameworks irrelevant? <br />
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*The role of Web 2.0 and social media for civic engagement, journalism and education</h4><br />
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Bloggers, social media groups and new online learning technologies are reshaping journalism and education. We'll reflect upon the opportunities and challenges associated with the many new ways that these new technological resources reshape our work as journalists and educators.<br />
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*Using news as a frame for core curriculum -- does it work?</h4><br />
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Often on an ad hoc basis, many of America's best teachers find ways to use current-event news materials in the classroom to illustrate curriculum points in history, social studies or literature. What work is underway to help them, and does this approach produce more engaged citizens? What approaches work best in introducing secondary-school teachers to integrating news and current events along with news analysis and production activities across the curriculum? <br />
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*Using journalists to address two challenges?</h4><br />
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With students engaged in online activities at unprecedented levels . . . their access to media is almost unlimited . . . they have moved from primarily web searching to media creation sites such as Facebook, YouTube and MySpace. To engage students in understanding current events it must be on this broad media playing field. Few classroom teachers have both the journalism skills and the media tools to help students become engaged in creating their own media. Can journalists become allies with teachers in this effort? What will be the impact on the survival of the news business? <br />
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A collaboration of teachers and journalists could change how our schools prepare teen-agers for media use in a civil society, and address two key challenges: <br />
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*How to elevate in the minds of school boards and state curriculum framers the importance of media-literacy education as a core element of preparing teen-agers to be informed, engaged citizens. <br />
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*In an environment of little-or-no financial resources, how to offer teachers the tools and training they need to be able to work with new-technology media resources alongside increasingly media-savvy (but not necessary news-savvy) students.<br />
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==WHAT IS NEWS LITERACY?==<br />
[http://mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Newsliteracy-notes NOTES ON August Poynter summit on news literacy]<br />
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What is news literacy? It’s considerably broader than the field of journalism education, where young people get a professional orientation to the field as a means to consider career opportunities. News literacy aims to address the needs of all young people, preparing them to be citizens who use news and information to guide their decision-making in all aspects of their lives. News literacy emphasizes the ability to “read between the lines” to recognize implicit or subtext messages. The messages are thought to reveal values expressed in news.<br />
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News-literacy education prepares young people to be citizens by helping them develop an interest in news and current events, stimulating the skills to critically analyze the messages they receive, and inspiring the self-efficacy needed to use information to make effective decisions and take action in their schools, communities and the wider world. There are several different models for news literacy programs and each approach the practice with a unique set of assumptions, goals, and strategies for educating youth.<br />
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One of the fundamental concepts in media literacy comes from the work of cultural studies scholar Raymond Williams, who defined the practice of various “reading positions” toward cultural texts, including dominant, negotiated and oppositional readings. Scholars in the field debate: What does it mean to teach people how to “read” news and journalism from a dominant, negotiated or oppositional frame?<br />
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<hr></div>Bill Densmorehttps://mgpwiki.mediagiraffe.org//index.php?title=Rji-chaos-newsroom-cafe-notes&diff=236865Rji-chaos-newsroom-cafe-notes2014-07-03T00:21:50Z<p>Bill Densmore: /* Notes of the Newsroom Cafes Presentiation at RJI March 16, 2010 */</p>
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<div>=Notes of the Newsroom Cafes Presentation at RJI March 16, 2010=<br />
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<i>Here is a rough transcription by Bill Densmore of the "Newsroom Cafe" presentation at the Center for Digital Globe symposium on March 16, 2010 at the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute, Missouri School of Journalism, Columbia, Mo. </i><br />
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MICHAEL SKOLER: There was a joke circulating on the Internet not long ago circulating, it went something like this: “What do you call an unemployed journalist: A barista!” We’re actually taking that we’re combining the role of barista and journalist in a new concept called Newsroom Café. And we’re going to share in a variety of ways what our basic value proposition is. But fundamentally, this is about building a community around news, around the folks that already go to coffee shops who want a little more than high-priced coffee. And I’m going to introduce David Cohn who is going to talk a little bit about the idea. <br />
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DAVID COHN: What we’re trying to do is take coffee shops where now you sit at a computer and you stare and you are alone and isolated and bring back a little bit of community so the idea is building a young community of people who care about their community and the world. I grew up on Cheers, everybody knowsthe name? We’re bringing a sense where people will come for the coffee, but will stay for the atmosphere, the vibe the community of people, a sense of shared values. Maybe it’s because there is an interesting discussion going on that day that they know about or they just follow the blogs of the baristas . . . you can look at what Starbucks did, but we’re taking it one step further by really adding a sense of world value judgement, this is a community of people that want to be engaged in their local communities. <br />
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MARIA: Our target consumer, since we are a small company, according to market research, is between the ages of 18 and 34. They are composed of intellectuals, creatives, those that are inspired by political issues and those who are not afraid to speak out and create a platform where their voices can be heard. If you look around the room, the majority of that target community niche is you, so in that special shop it will serve as a public sphere, like the old European tea salons where we can all engage in conversation in a very healthy debate about topics from climate issues, political issues, social issues. So the target market would consist of many of you, university students, liberals, yuppies, creatives, those socially and consciously aware of issues that you want to address openly. <br />
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And our value proposition feeds on consumer passion. This is what you are passionate about, yoru goals and issues that you want to open up a platform for. And it’s basically bringing the online audience offline, allowing those who actively blog to actively speak out face to face. So the value statement is we value creativity in public opinion and support those who take the lead, rather than follow from behind. And our mission statement is to engage community in a very healthy and public debate on current issues and to bridge the gap between the news producer and the news consumer. <br />
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So great tagline: “An open space for an open conversation.” For those that enjoys brands such as this one, which will extend brand into the valley of the smart, creative, tech savvy, people who enjoy challenges and who like to (unintelligible) and open-minded. <br />
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SKOLER: So, we’re talking about a fairly large market. In fact, the major users of coffee houses and doughnut shops are 18-34 year olds. Total market is $13 billion. It took a slight hit – one percent decline this past year. It’s expecting to rise almost four percent next year, so it’s still growing. The 18-34-year olds now make up 32 percent of the population – 72 million people – and our target audience. <br />
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So we’re going to go for some venture-capital money; we’re going to scout out some locations. The interesting thing about this is we’re actually going to create some bricks and mortar. Online social communities are doing brilliantly but has been a hunger actually for turning that into bricks and mortar and we’re going to start that. The beauty of this is we don’t need a lot of venture capital, because the average coffee house at this point on average makes a 19-percent profit margin. So, its already an attractive business and as we’re going to be getting to in a minute, we’re going to be franchising this. If any of you have studied business models of Jiffy Lube and others, there’s huge, huge money in franchising, when you’ve got a good business model for an individual who wants to run one of those things. And you provide certain guidelines.<br />
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Once we’ve got our first shop we’re going to schedule programs and everything and that will include digital cameras, photo workshops to discussions around specific news events to other ideas, through even collectively watching the Daily Show and laughing together. And we’ll do this kind of every hour so you’ll always know that at a particular hour you can go down to the coffee shop and meet someone like you and do something you want to do. And it’s happening all the time, schedules going on all the time so you can dip in and out as you go and get your coffee, for 15 or 30 minutes or whatever. <br />
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We’ll run the program schedule for six months, we’ll figure out what’s working, we’ll make any adjustments we need to open our second location and once we’ve meet the expected revenue goals we’re off and running starting these franchises all over the place and not just one in a city, but the average number of coffee shops per 100,000 people is about three. So in the small town you could have at least two or three coffee shops and in large areas you can have them all throughout the neighborhoods. <br />
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We expect that franchising is going to provide – for Starbucks, franchising is eight percent of its money, it owns about 7,000 shops, it franchises another 4,000 or so and they are making eight percent. We figure franchising fee is about five percent. So there is huge money in that. Food and drink, as I mentioned, a 19-percent margin, the average coffee shop gets from half a million to a million dollars per year and that’s a range from Caribou Coffee, which is at the lower end, to Starbucks which is at the higher end. We also expect, so besides just making the food and drink that any coffee shop makes, we’re going to have events which we’ll charge cover charges for, a digital camera workshop event or whatever. We’ll actually bring a lot of incredible talent that now finds themselves free-lancing, in to actually hold events. We’re going to tap this huge pool of journalistic talent that’s out there to share skills and charge a $10 cover charge, we’ll pay the free-lancer for it. We’re going to do all sorts of media products like you sell in a coffee shop, but it needs to be around media. National magazines, media, whatever’s hot. <br />
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Finally, we’re actually going to have space in that coffee shop which is going to be cubicles to use for blogging. We’ll invite news organizations to come in, send a couple of reporters from the news organization, to come and hang out in coffee shops so they can get a sense of what people care about, what the issues are, they can test story ideas, they can do crowdsourcing this way. But we’ll rent out cubicles for people to actually work so that they can work in a social environment while they are doing a local blog, or a reporter that’s trying to connect with issues and all that. So you’ve got multiple revenue streams, and the biggest one is the franchise fee which goes wild once you set up the prototype. <br />
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ADSF ASDF: If you are opening up something that’s both a café and a newsroom of sorts you are going to need a pretty diverse staff, including the franchise business manager, who would really just oversee all the franchisees and manage the actions they are taking. We also need a coffee shop business manager who has relationships with the coffee sources and manages the products that the stores are producting. And a community-engagement officer – they’re the one organizing the events and the partnerships with community thought leaders and developing relationships with them. <br />
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We also need someone who is tied to the journalism community to create initial relationships with them and it should ideally be someone who is well know just to establish the credibility of the business. And finally we need a marketing manager. We really see this business growing from a word-of-mouth, grassroots business strategy, so working with the necessary marketing partners to meet those objectives. <br />
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===COMPETITION===<br />
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SPEAKER: We identify at least two groups of competitors. Firs and second, (unintelligible) a lot of different things however our Newsroom Café offers a participatory and open environment for coffee drinkers who seek intellectual stimulation and a sense of community. When you go to Starbucks everybody’s individual; here, you are expected to be engaged. Coffee shop right now we have only five stores in this country but we are going to have baristas who blog, participating. (unintelliglble). We are going to offer a great variety of community participation beyond just bake sales and PTAs. <br />
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SKOLER: We recognize that the tough part here is we’re entering a crowded market that’s making a ton of money so the competitors are not going to sit by and do nothing. It’s a highly competitive market. But we do think we can offer a distinct value proposition. The difference is instead of going in and sitting alone, as we have mentioned, you come into these coffee shops expecting and in essence the culture is that if you’re sitting in a coffee shop you expect people can come up to you and start talking to you. If you want to sit and work and do you blog in peace, go to Starbucks. If you want to come into an environment where there are people like you and there is constant communication and things happening, that’s what we’re trying to offer. <br />
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Partnerships with news outlets? They may resist it. They may see us as competitors. Hard to see. But we’re trying to be realistic about potential risk. We do need people . . . we do need to create a culture of a fun and special place. We do need baristas who blog. And they’re going to be parttime in a cubicle working on a blog and part-time serving up coffee. So we need to find people to create this kind of culture. And fundamentally we need to attract young people around the issue of discussing things that matter to them in their lives and communities. This is a young market and we think it’s a young market that’s hungry to do this and most traditional news outlets don’t provide the kind of content or community that young folks ages 18-34 want and we think this will do that and will help that conundrum – most traditional and mainstream media groups just kind of shake their heads and say ‘Geez, where are the youth, they don’t care about the news and we don’t buy that for a second, we just want to provide the environment so they can get charged up about it and do what they normally do, which is discuss it in a real community. <br />
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===QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS===<br />
<i>(this section is excerpted and paraphrased) </i><br><br />
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Q: There are other Newscafes around the country, a large one in South Miami Beach. There are Newscafes in New York, Georgetown, Connecticut. How are you going to get around the trademark issue. I’m sure they’ve trademarked the name. <br />
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SKOLER: I don’t think we necessarily need to because there are a bunch of them there is one in Minnesota too. And I have a feeling there hasn’t been a trademark grab. Trademarks require certain things. But if not, we’ll find rights and we’ve played with names; we don’t want to get hung up on that, we are going to franchise. <br />
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BILL DENSMORE: We are in discussions with the Miami Newscafe. <br />
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David Cohn talks about the relationship with legacy news organizations and the sharing of brand and ownership of content. <br />
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SKOLER: “I think it’s fundamentally, it’s not creating a news community.” (not sure of context) <br />
He says the profit margin on coffee drinks is 79 percent. Discussed the idea of calling it a news saloon. <br />
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What about partnering with Starbucks? Why build your own brick and mortar when you can go to an established place? Skoler: The real model is the franchising, not the service. Starbucks is a very different brand. <br />
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SKOLER: A 2008 study finds social marketing is the key reason people go to coffee shops. <br />
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Could this work in any other venues? <br />
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SKOLER: Talked about it. Gathering over food is a cultural norm. You need a certain amount of density. That’s why you have a coffee shop. <br />
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BETH POLISH: Why only 18-34? <br />
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SKOLER: Not about exclusion. This is the target market that already has a habit of coffee shops. Best way to get started. <br />
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“It’s not about drinking coffee, its about community and if you want to come, we have it. We think that moving that habit to a community base will be the initial target market.” <br />
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KEY DISCUSSION: How to manage the discussion in the case of physical “trolls.” <br />
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“This is an open platform, we don’t want to exclude anyone because of their views or preferences.”</div>Bill Densmorehttps://mgpwiki.mediagiraffe.org//index.php?title=Jtm&diff=236864Jtm2014-03-13T18:57:05Z<p>Bill Densmore: /* Links to seven major events organized by Journalism That Matters */</p>
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<div>=Links to six major events organized by Journalism That Matters= <br />
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*Memphis - http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Memphis<br />
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*DC - http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-dc<br />
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*Silicon Valley - http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-sv<br />
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*Minneapolis - http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-mn<br />
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*Philadelphia - http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Reboot-home<br />
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*Detroit -- http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-detroit<br />
</h3></div>Bill Densmorehttps://mgpwiki.mediagiraffe.org//index.php?title=Memphis-chris-peck&diff=236863Memphis-chris-peck2014-03-07T12:59:19Z<p>Bill Densmore: Protected "Memphis-chris-peck" [edit=sysop:move=sysop]</p>
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<div>[[Image:Mug_peck_chris.jpg|180px|thumb|left| Chris Peck]]<br />
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BELOW EXCERPTED FROM:<br><br />
http://www.commercialappeal.com/mca/columnist/0,1426,MCA_539_17173,00.html#bio<br><br><br />
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Chris Peck is former editor of The Commercial Appeal in Memphis. Founded in 1841, the newspaper is the oldest continuously opeated business in the city. As editor, Peck oversees the work of 150 journalists who write for print and online. Under his tenure, The Commercial Appeal has been named the best newspaper in Tennessee. Peck came to Memphis in 2003 after serving as the first Belo Distinguished Chair of Journalism at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. Before that, he was editor of The Spokesman-Review, in Spokane, Wash. Under his direction, The Spokesman-Review was cited by Columbia Journalism Review as one of the 25 best papers in the United States. He is past president of the Associated Press Managing Editors and currently is serving a second term on the board of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. Raised in Wyoming, he and his brother still own and operate The Riverton Ranger, a newspaper that has been in the Peck family for 60 years. He and Kate Duignan, his wife of 30 years, are 1972 graduates of Stanford University. They have two children, Cody and Sarah.<br><br><br />
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MORE:<br><br />
*[http://www.asne.org/index.cfm?ID=2093 ASNE circa 1999 personal bio sheet on Chris Peck]<br><br />
*[http://www.pewcenter.org/doingcj/speeches/s_npcluncheon.html Peck 2001 National Press Club talk on results of Pew study]<br />
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[[Category:JTM-DC people]]<br />
[[Category:JTM-DC planners]]</div>Bill Densmorehttps://mgpwiki.mediagiraffe.org//index.php?title=Memphis-chris-peck&diff=236862Memphis-chris-peck2014-03-07T12:59:11Z<p>Bill Densmore: </p>
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<div>[[Image:Mug_peck_chris.jpg|180px|thumb|left| Chris Peck]]<br />
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BELOW EXCERPTED FROM:<br><br />
http://www.commercialappeal.com/mca/columnist/0,1426,MCA_539_17173,00.html#bio<br><br><br />
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Chris Peck is former editor of The Commercial Appeal in Memphis. Founded in 1841, the newspaper is the oldest continuously opeated business in the city. As editor, Peck oversees the work of 150 journalists who write for print and online. Under his tenure, The Commercial Appeal has been named the best newspaper in Tennessee. Peck came to Memphis in 2003 after serving as the first Belo Distinguished Chair of Journalism at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. Before that, he was editor of The Spokesman-Review, in Spokane, Wash. Under his direction, The Spokesman-Review was cited by Columbia Journalism Review as one of the 25 best papers in the United States. He is past president of the Associated Press Managing Editors and currently is serving a second term on the board of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. Raised in Wyoming, he and his brother still own and operate The Riverton Ranger, a newspaper that has been in the Peck family for 60 years. He and Kate Duignan, his wife of 30 years, are 1972 graduates of Stanford University. They have two children, Cody and Sarah.<br><br><br />
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MORE:<br><br />
*[http://www.asne.org/index.cfm?ID=2093 ASNE circa 1999 personal bio sheet on Chris Peck]<br><br />
*[http://www.pewcenter.org/doingcj/speeches/s_npcluncheon.html Peck 2001 National Press Club talk on results of Pew study]<br />
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[[Category:JTM-DC people]]<br />
[[Category:JTM-DC planners]]</div>Bill Densmorehttps://mgpwiki.mediagiraffe.org//index.php?title=Jtm&diff=236861Jtm2014-03-06T00:49:32Z<p>Bill Densmore: /* Links to five major events organized by Journalism That Matters */</p>
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<div>=Links to seven major events organized by Journalism That Matters= <br />
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<h3><br />
*Memphis - http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Memphis<br />
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*DC - http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-dc<br />
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*Silicon Valley - http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-sv<br />
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*Minneapolis - http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-mn<br />
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*Philadelphia - http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Reboot-home<br />
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*Detroit -- http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-detroit<br />
</h3></div>Bill Densmorehttps://mgpwiki.mediagiraffe.org//index.php?title=Jtm&diff=236860Jtm2014-03-05T20:06:57Z<p>Bill Densmore: Protected "Jtm" [edit=sysop:move=sysop] [cascading]</p>
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<div>=Links to five major events organized by Journalism That Matters= <br />
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<h3><br />
*Memphis - http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Memphis<br />
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*DC - http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-dc<br />
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*Silicon Valley - http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-sv<br />
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*Minneapolis - http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-mn<br />
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*Philadelphia - http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Reboot-home<br />
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