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Jtm-pnw-session-holy-grail

2010-01-22T00:09:02Z

Dougschuler:

I apologize for the fact that the "News should Not be Journalism's Holy Grail" session didn't happen — or at least not in the orthodox fashion. There ''was'' plenty of interest — more than I had reckoned on. I was catching up with Lew Friedland from Wisconsin and the time passed too quickly.

If the session didn't happen, what is this verbiage? As advised by Peggy in her introduction to Open Space, a single person can constitute a session. And since I had jotted down my thoughts on the subject (what you see below) I thought I'd share them. Obviously the issue isn't totally solved by these preliminary thoughts. I'd love to see this annotated by other people who had wanted to join this session.

'''Holy Grail, News-Man!'''

While the news definitely has a place, the main question that needs answering in my opinion is what information and communication do people ''actually need'' — and, arguably, this goes way beyond news. The subsequent question (not answered here) is what can be done to ensure that this actually occurs.

News attaches prominence on immediacy: What's happening right now is the all-important factor. And for that reason, news itself is often literally useless. It can be very entertaining and enticing, but it falls flat in the usefulness department when the voting, invasion, or bus crash, has already occurred.

When the news is the only thing that matters, the factors leading up to a news story as well as the consequences and implications that follow the story do not receive the attention they deserve.

Focusing on news is a way to entice a society with attention deficit disorder. And months after the news story, the audience can't remember who was bombed (or the reason that was given) or where the famine took place (or what factors helped cause it).

The also helps can help instill a feeling of helplessness (and/or cynicism and/or ignorance) because we rarely learn about roles we might play since we didn't see the news coming and we don't see where it's going or what might come next.

News preempts the important — and often unrealized — products of journalism that we could call the ''pre-'' and ''post-'' news.

This definitely overlaps with the great concept of "Slow News" that was introduced at the conference. I have to admit it took awhile (a few minutes at least) for this concept to grow on me. (I'm hoping that somebody — ''Michelle?'' — will also post a draft ''Slow News'' pattern to the [http://www.publicsphereproject.org/patterns/ pattern language] site.)

Jtm-pnw-fri-sessions

2010-01-22T00:07:05Z

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=FRIDAY SESSION NOTES (click on the headline to post your notes)=

<big>Listed below are the breakout sessions called by JTM-PNW participants on Friday. In each case, by clicking on the title, you can see whether notes of the session have been posted. Any session participant can use the wiki to add notes, or email notes of a session to [mailto:jtm@journalismthatmatters.org jtm@journalismthatmatters.org] Sessions with titles in '''bold''' have completed and file session notes.</big>

*[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-sat-sessions (More sessions: Saturday)]

==10:30 sessions==

*[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-non-profit-business-models Non-profit business models: Surveying the landscape]

*'''[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-generation-gap How do we bridge the generation gap in journalism and information acquisition?''' - Paul Lowenberg (G)]

*[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-audience-respect Do we respect the audience? And if so, how do we show that respect? - Kristin (A Olympic)]

*'''[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-possibilty-journalism What is "possibility" (solution) journalism and how do I do it? - Sarah van Gelder (B Olympic) ]'''

*'''[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-common-challenges How can we make it easier to publish and find proven solutions to common challenges (such as environment, education, energy) that integrates global, national and local levels with biz, government, education and other sectors?]''' - Pam (O)

*'''[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-hyperlocal-journalism What place does mass media have in hyperlocal journalism? - Dale Steinke (L)]'''

*'''[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-local-blog How can I continue to grow my local blog and sustain it as a business? - Scott Schaefer (K)]'''

*'''[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-sustain-freelance How can we create sustainable freelance communities in an increasingly decentralized newsroom? - Daysha Eaton, Superstringer''' (D) ] / [http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-audio#WRAPUPS AUDIO AVAILABLE]

*'''[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-truth-accountability Truth and accountability in the news - Rob Moitoza (M)]'''

*'''[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-issue-advertising Can "issue advertising" be leveraged to support new forms of "issue" journalism? - Bart Preecs (H)]'''

*'''[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-traditional-media What aspects of traditional media journalism need to be preserved and what should we jettison? - Sanjay (E)]'''

*'''[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-new-news-eco How can we re-imagine the WNC to bring more citizens into the new news ecosystem? - John Hamer''' (J)]

*'''[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-science-curious Are you curious about science? and How can scientists restore trust? - Lion Kimbo/Sally James (F)]'''

*'''[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-emerge-particip Emergent participatory curation systems - Brad deGraf''' (I)]

*[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-water-qual How can we take back our water quality? - Matsui Cook (C Olympic)]

*'''[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-gov-online Can open government online help sustain the new news ecology? - Daniel Lathrop (N)]'''

==1:30 sessions==

*'''[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-support-comm How can journalists support community and remain fact-based truth tellers? Bill Densmore/RJI (O)]''' / [http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-audio#WRAPUPS AUDIO AVAILABLE]

*'''[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-city-hall How can we pay for "city hall beat reporters" & Olympic gavel-to-gavel coverage? Sarajane Seigfriedt/Community Policy Network (E)]'''

*'''[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-academia-news What can academia do for "the new news"? Jessica Durkin''' (N)]

*'''[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-trust-medical How to strengthen transparency and trust in medical research - Susan Adler/News Association for Biomedical Research (F)]'''

*'''[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-investigative-journ How do you make investigative journalism collaborative & sustainable? Rita Hibbard/Invetigate West''' (H)]

*'''[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-most-import How can media do a better job of pointing out what news (in all of the din) is the most important? (help people weed through the info overload) Ilona Meagher (J)]'''

*'''[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-tech-journ How can technology better serve journalism? Chuck Taylor (C Olympic)]''' / [http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-audio#WRAPUPS AUDIO AVAILABLE]

*'''[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-gov-bus How could relationships change between govt/business to support the ermerging news ecology? Ken LeBlond''' (L)]

*'''[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-new-economy Can you survive the new "free economy"? Tom Bangasser/Vashon College (A Olympic)''' (P)]

*'''[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-holy-grail Is News the wrong holy grail for "journalism"? Douglas Schuler''' (G)]

*'''[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-artist-envision Disturbance, disruption, and the artist: enivisioning out brilliant future. Cameron Hall''' (K) / [http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-audio#WRAPUPS AUDIO AVAILABLE]

*'''[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-comm-outside What communication is possible outside the internet? Zines?Murals?street art? Shala McDonnel (M)]'''

==3:00 sessions==

*'''[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-not-hyperlocal After the crash, how can we re-connect local audiences with quality journalism that's not hyperlocal? Alex Stonehill/CLP (D)]'''

*'''[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-journ-wiki How is journalism different when the tool is a wiki? Michael Andersen (H))]''' / [http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-audio#WRAPUPS AUDIO AVAILABLE]

*'''[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-info-sec Information Security 101. How do we protect data privacy in the age of information omnipotence? Jacob Caggiano/Independent Media Practitioner (N)]'''

*'''[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-free-open How software made free and open sustainable: an open culture-based business model for journalism. Brian Glanz (I A/V Room)]'''

*[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-waht-want What do you want? For those that don't know what role does reflection, intention, discussion play in this process? Bee and Hive Metaphor (J)]

*'''[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-news-perf What is the potential for news as performance? Maurreen (A Olympic)]'''

*[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-app-journ If you could have an application build to support your journalism what would it do? Casey (F)]

*'''[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-journ-20th What should journalism be in the 21st century? (And what should community be?) Mike Kitross (K)]
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*'''[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-service-corp Report for America - creating a service corp for volunteer reporting hosted by communities. Bill Densmore (C Olympic)]'''

*[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-backto-feelings How do we get back to our feelings? - Mitsue Cook (G)]

*'''[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-diversity-news How do we ensure the new news ecology is infused with diverse voices that are heard? Michelle Ferrier (B)]'''

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Jtm-pnw-session-holy-grail

2010-01-22T00:02:11Z

Dougschuler:

I apologize for the fact that the "News should Not be Journalism's Holy Grail" session didn't happen — or at least not in the orthodox fashion. There ''was'' plenty of interest — more than I had reckoned on. I was catching up with Lew Friedland from Wisconsin and the time passed too quickly.

If the session didn't happen, what is this verbiage? As advised by Peggy in her introduction to Open Space, a single person can constitute a session. And since I had jotted down my thoughts on the subject (what you see below) I thought I'd share them. Obviously the issue isn't totally solved by these preliminary thoughts. I'd love to see this annotated by other people who had wanted to join this session.

'''Holy Grail, News-Man!'''

While the news may have its place, the main question that needs answering is what information and communication do people actually need — and, arguably, this goes way beyond news. The subsequent question (not answered here) is what can be done to ensure that this actually occurs.

News attaches prominence on immediacy: What's happening right now is the all-important factor. And for that reason, news itself is often literally useless. It can be very entertaining and enticing, but it falls flat in the usefulness department when the voting, invasion, or bus crash, has already occurred.

When the news is the only thing that matters, the factors leading up to a news story as well as the consequences and implications that follow the story do not receive the attention they deserve.

Focusing on news is a way to entice a society with attention deficit disorder. And months after the news story, the audience can't remember who was bombed (or the reason that was given) or where the famine took place (or what factors helped cause it).

The also helps can help instill a feeling of helplessness (and/or cynicism and/or ignorance) because we rarely learn about roles we might play since we didn't see the news coming and we don't see where it's going or what might come next.

News preempts the important — and often unrealized — products of journalism that we could call the ''pre-'' and ''post-'' news.

This definitely overlaps with the great concept of "Slow News" that was introduced at the conference. I have to admit it took awhile (a few minutes at least) for this concept to grow on me. (I'm hoping that somebody — ''Michelle?'' — will also post a draft ''Slow News'' pattern to the [http://www.publicsphereproject.org/patterns/ pattern language] site.)

Jtm-pnw-session-holy-grail

2010-01-22T00:01:47Z

Dougschuler:

I apologize for the fact that the "News should Not be Journalism's Holy Grail" session didn't happen &mdash or at least not in the orthodox fashion. There ''was'' plenty of interest — more than I had reckoned on. I was catching up with Lew Friedland from Wisconsin and the time passed too quickly.

If the session didn't happen, what is this verbiage? As advised by Peggy in her introduction to Open Space, a single person can constitute a session. And since I had jotted down my thoughts on the subject (what you see below) I thought I'd share them. Obviously the issue isn't totally solved by these preliminary thoughts. I'd love to see this annotated by other people who had wanted to join this session.

'''Holy Grail, News-Man!'''

While the news may have its place, the main question that needs answering is what information and communication do people actually need — and, arguably, this goes way beyond news. The subsequent question (not answered here) is what can be done to ensure that this actually occurs.

News attaches prominence on immediacy: What's happening right now is the all-important factor. And for that reason, news itself is often literally useless. It can be very entertaining and enticing, but it falls flat in the usefulness department when the voting, invasion, or bus crash, has already occurred.

When the news is the only thing that matters, the factors leading up to a news story as well as the consequences and implications that follow the story do not receive the attention they deserve.

Focusing on news is a way to entice a society with attention deficit disorder. And months after the news story, the audience can't remember who was bombed (or the reason that was given) or where the famine took place (or what factors helped cause it).

The also helps can help instill a feeling of helplessness (and/or cynicism and/or ignorance) because we rarely learn about roles we might play since we didn't see the news coming and we don't see where it's going or what might come next.

News preempts the important — and often unrealized — products of journalism that we could call the ''pre-'' and ''post-'' news.

This definitely overlaps with the great concept of "Slow News" that was introduced at the conference. I have to admit it took awhile (a few minutes at least) for this concept to grow on me. (I'm hoping that somebody — ''Michelle?'' — will also post a draft ''Slow News'' pattern to the [http://www.publicsphereproject.org/patterns/ pattern language] site.)

Jtm-pnw-session-holy-grail

2010-01-22T00:00:49Z

Dougschuler: New page: I apologize for the fact that the "News should Not be Journalism's Holy Grail" session didn't happen. There was plenty of interest — more than I had reckoned on. I was catching up with...

I apologize for the fact that the "News should Not be Journalism's Holy Grail" session didn't happen. There was plenty of interest — more than I had reckoned on. I was catching up with Lew Friedland from Wisconsin and the time passed too quickly.

If the session didn't happen, what is this verbiage? As advised by Peggy in her introduction to Open Space, a single person can constitute a session. And since I had jotted down my thoughts on the subject (what you see below) I thought I'd share them. Obviously the issue isn't totally solved by these preliminary thoughts. I'd love to see this annotated by other people who had wanted to join this session.

'''Holy Grail, News-Man!'''

While the news may have its place, the main question that needs answering is what information and communication do people actually need — and, arguably, this goes way beyond news. The subsequent question (not answered here) is what can be done to ensure that this actually occurs.

News attaches prominence on immediacy: What's happening right now is the all-important factor. And for that reason, news itself is often literally useless. It can be very entertaining and enticing, but it falls flat in the usefulness department when the voting, invasion, or bus crash, has already occurred.

When the news is the only thing that matters, the factors leading up to a news story as well as the consequences and implications that follow the story do not receive the attention they deserve.

Focusing on news is a way to entice a society with attention deficit disorder. And months after the news story, the audience can't remember who was bombed (or the reason that was given) or where the famine took place (or what factors helped cause it).

The also helps can help instill a feeling of helplessness (and/or cynicism and/or ignorance) because we rarely learn about roles we might play since we didn't see the news coming and we don't see where it's going or what might come next.

News preempts the important — and often unrealized — products of journalism that we could call the ''pre-'' and ''post-'' news.

This definitely overlaps with the great concept of "Slow News" that was introduced at the conference. I have to admit it took awhile (a few minutes at least) for this concept to grow on me. (I'm hoping that somebody — ''Michelle?'' — will also post a draft ''Slow News'' pattern to the [http://www.publicsphereproject.org/patterns/ pattern language] site.)