Category: Open Journalism
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Endeavour’s other mission: Advancing Open Journalism
The toughest and best question people ask me about the open journalism ideas I put forward months ago in an interactive paper for USC Annenberg: Can these ideas work in real life — i.e. in a newsroom doing journalism in live time? I rejoined live journalism in April as executive editor at KPCC / Southern…
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Journalism art and craft, Pulitzer edition
https://twitter.com/#!/jcstearns/status/191599767246209026 Josh Stearns (@jcstearns) has been talking today with a few folks on Twitter about community needs and journalism, drawing me and others in. It got me thinking about that ongoing question of what defines successful journalism — quality — in 2012. For too many journalists, still, quality is defined by peer recognition. This is…
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Lost in translation (by web bots?)
I’m new to WordPress blogging and have been surprised (sorry, naive) by the level of spam in commenting. I’ve approved 15 comments or pingbacks to my last post but have three or four times as many spam responses. Fortunately, I’m moderating comments. But one in particular was amusing — a “translation,” if you can call…
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Take it from former editors: Newspapers need bolder change
In a recent post to his Media, Disrupted blog, John Robinson argued that newspapers should start doing some basic things differently — from having a real person answer telephones to punching up editorial commentary — to restore their communities’ sense of ownership and trust in their local newsrooms. Then Robinson, who left his job as editor…
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My open journalism paper is out
The Annenberg Innovation Lab has published “The Case for Open Journalism Now: A new framework for informing communities,” my online discussion paper on the emerging idea of open journalism. The web paper (which can be downloaded as PDF) includes dozens of links to open journalism in action and draws on thinking, writing and actions by people…