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JTM/Silicon Valley: Innovation, democracy and a new ecology of news
How will technology innovation support journalism and participatory democracy?
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Pre-convening professional partner interviews
This page is reserved for posting of pre-convening professional partner interviews for NewsTools2008. To get a feel for the the process, (and some insight from the interviews) you can look at the page created for JTM-The DC Sessions, in August of last year.
Don't worry about formatting. Members of the NewsTools2008 team will check this page regularly, clean up any formatting issues and move longer interviews to subpages.
Some say the work begins the moment the idea is formed. We invite you into an inquiry to help shape the ideas that guide our work in Silicon Valley by spending an hour by telephone before the session with one other participant, engaging in creative inquiry about the themes underlying the session.
The purpose is threefold:
- to arrive on site already having established a relationship with another person;
- to begin to understand both the diverse and common perspectives among us; and
- to ground our work in the meeting’s themes using an activity fundamental to journalism: storytelling.
We’ve done our best to pair people with very different perspectives. Please contact your interview partner to arrange a time.
We KNOW everyone is busy; we believe taking the time for this will accelerate our work. In fact, even if you don’t have an hour, previous participants have told us that making the connection even for a short time enhanced the experience both for them as individuals and for the group.
Below are some questions you can use. Our experience has been that these questions are useful to break new and fertile ground. That said, feel free to ask other questions as you wish. Our suggestion is that one person act as interviewer for all four questions and then swap.
After your conversation, please share a few highlights by posting them on our conference workspace below or e-mail them to: jtm@mediagiraffe.org.
THE QUESTIONS
Please interview your partner and share their story with us.
1. Each of us has been engaged with at least one media story – as journalist or audience – that we experienced as particularly valuable; a story that had great productive impact; in other words, a story that mattered. Tell me about a story you were involved with or were touched by that comes to mind. What gave it value…for its audience? For its creators?
2. Without being humble, what do you value most about yourself? What gifts do you see yourself bringing to this meeting?
3. In these times when credentialed bloggers cover federal-court proceedings, vloggers go to prison in defense of First Amendment principles and "crowdsourcing" blossoms, it is clear that how journalism happens is changing. Tell me about an experience you’ve had with these new realities, in which innovation made a difference in telling a story that mattered.
• What did that experience teach you about the gifts of both new innovations and the traditional roots of journalism?
4. The year is 2013 and journalism has successfully emerged from the difficult years to fulfill its core mission of serving healthy democracy – providing the information people need to make good choices in their lives, to engage in their communities, and to understand and act effectively from their place in the larger world. What is going on? What innovations have made this type of journalism viable, socially, economically, personally, and professionally?
SUMMARY
Capture your reflections on your partner’s responses using this outline or something like it:
1. What meaning did you take from the interview process?
2. Please share a standout story or quote.
3. What surprised, challenged, inspired, and/or delighted you about the interview?
Post your responses below or e-mail them to: jtm@mediagiraffe.org
