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Self-contained statements

• How does the story want to tell itself?
• Stories never end.
• Advertising IS news.
• Content is context.
• Journalists serve their community.
• New roles, new rules.
• Journalism ... to be continued.
• Reporters are bloggers; bloggers aren't necessarily reporters.

Journalism is . . .

• a lifestyle.
• participatory.
• contextual.
• solution-oriented.
• immediate AND continuous.
• personal.
• collaboration.
• transparent.

Journalism is . . .

• a conversation.
• the stories of our time.
• community glue.
• verified gossip.
• democracy's mouthpiece.
• a social practice.
• harnessing the collective intelligence.
• a verb.
• a shared experience.
• bottom-up, not top-down.

More self-contained statements

• Get out of the way.
• Journalism and Advertising Share Purpose.
• The New Model is Empty Space, Open Space, Outer Space, Limitless Space.
• Gravity: It's Not Just for Physicists Anymore.
• The Internet has Always Existed.
• News is a Network, not an Unfortunate Series of Events.
• There is no News Cycle.
• The New News Cycle is ∞.
• Journalists Shape Community and the Community is News.
• Journalism: Giving voice to community
• The road goes on forever, and the story never ends.(Robert Earle Keene Jr.
• It's the content, stupid [Or less in-your-face: dude].
• Journalism 2.0: On a screen near you.
• News is conversation.
• Communities are news.
• Communities create news.
• Journalists are community weavers.
• Journalists: Be all you can be.
• Journalism: Priceless

• The participant economy.
• Smart money flows to innovative firms with solid business plans.
• Who says big ideas are rare?
• Hierarchies aren't nimble.
• Big ideas are the province of anyone.
• The monopoly over information is over.
• Avoid institutional dinosaurs.
• What would Da Vinci do?
• What would Steve Jobs do?
• Wisdom of crowds.
• Question the dominate paradigm.
• Organize for Rapid Experimentation.
• Manage Projects as Experiments.
• Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners
• Its warm and cozy in the tar pits.
• Culture eats strategy every day.
• Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
• See change as an opportunity - not a threat
• Eat your own dog food.
• Ignore people's titles.
• To change is difficult. Not to change is fatal.
• Don't reinvent the wheel, just realign it.
• The best successful businesses help other people make money
• Transparency is a competitive weapon.
• When all you do is copy others, you copy their mistakes, too.
• Enable two-way conversation.
• Empower people to do what they want to do.
• XML, Atom, and RSS

and more....

• The real news is
• What is possible now?
• The way society knows itself
• Democracy's self-awareness
• The difference between knowing and ranting
• Saying it more like it is
• More voices, more stories
• Stories that matter
• Socially responsible journalism
• Reporting what's emerging
• The stories we're living
• The stories we're living into
• "The universe is made of stories, not atoms" -- Muriel Rukeyser
• The story is not only what happened
• Beyond balance to engagement
• Whose objectivity?
• No more lying with facts
• News that serves the people
• Journalists of the world awake! We have nothing to lose but our irrelevance!
• The way democracy talks to itself
• The way democracy hears itself
• The way democracy wakes up
• Democracy waking itself up
• Democracy grabbing the wheel
• Democracy paying attention to itself
• The voice of informed democracy
• Editing journalism for a new audience/day/era
• Bon Journalism
• Where the story meets democracy's need
• Becoming a better story (of journalism)
• Helping the People Lead Themselves

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