Smart thoughts on next steps for journalism
A running list of thinking on our next steps for smart journalism...
Read and summarize these:
How Social Media is Taking the News Local
--From Mashable
Five concrete steps to improving the news
--From Matt at Newsless.org
Buzz Machine: The building block of journalism is no longer the article
The old building block of journalism — the article — is proving to be inadequate in the current onslaught of news. I’ll argue here that the new building block is the topic.
The story was all we had before — it’s what would fit onto a newspaper page or into a broadcast show. But a discrete and serial series of articles over days cannot adequately cover the complex stories going on now nor can they properly inform the public. There’s too much repetition. Too little explanation. The knowledge is not cumulative.
Another good quote:
Think of it as being inside a beat reporter’s head, while also sitting at a table with all the experts who inform that reporter, as everyone there can hear and answer questions asked from the rest of the room — and in front of them all are links to more and ever-better information and understanding.
More links from Jeff's post:
LATER: See Steve Yelvington on community memory and what he’s building.
Here’s Folkenflik’s story.