Newsliteracy-transparency
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Key objective
Create a set of guiding principles for news transparency that can be used by news organizations to make news coverage more responsible and more responsive and less mysterious. This might embodied in tenets, tools, questions or practices to achieve those principles. These might allow readers to judge whether the news organization is acting independently etc.
Goals of the project
- To give more prominence to the idea of transparency in the gathering and reporting of news
- To make the work of journalists less mysterious, more responsive and more responsible
- To provide guidelines that news organizations can use or adapt
- To make it easier for readers to exercise news literacy skills
Implementation steps
- Assistance to news organizations seeking to development means
- A menu of suggested ideas for implementation tools
Who is involved in making it work?
- News organization through consensus from the top (a customer-service mandate)
- Readers, users, audience
- News sources
Is this a partnership with other entities?
- Poynter/ASNE to help with drafting guiding principles
- SPJ for connection with reporters
- University of Kansas students
- Community thought leaders who are not journalist but consumers might be invited
How can you value diversity in this application?
- Diverse stakeholders -- news producers as well as consumers
What kind of timeframe would be realistic?
- January
Is the project scalable?
- Any news organization can adapt or adopt
- From a one-many blogging organization to large newsroom
What kind of resources, and in what quantity, required
- Almost none.
