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Service journalism is the practice of creating articles that deliver utility to the audience instead of news in the traditional sense. These types of stories can be extremely helpful because they can build around buzzy topics that are trending in the daily conversation. #journalism #service_journalism https://lnkd.in/giBFrSxi

This is a great essay about the future of #journalism and a new partnership between Mother Jones and the Center for Investigative Reporting by Monika Bauerlein, who was my boss at a now-dead #altweekly #newspaper in #Minneapolis in the 1990s. Monika basically says that journalism is not going to be saved by new-media entrepreneurs or #billionaires with cash to burn. It's about getting back to #publicservice, solid #reporting, and good #storytelling. "To get there, we need to stop pretending journalism can make anyone rich, and instead try like hell to serve the public interest… while breaking even," she writes. "That’s it. No fancy mousetrap, no shiny object for investors or funders. No billionaire owners who might push out the #editor-in-chief because they’re upset with coverage of their friend’s dog. No faux centrist news from conservative heavyweights. Just a hard slog of putting together the money, one dollar at a time, to give people the information they need to change the world, one heart and mind at a time." In many ways, the challenges that facing journalism and #highereducation are very similar, a topic I wrote about in The Chronicle of Higher Education a few years ago (https://lnkd.in/efEQfVax). Both sectors have resisted change, lost confidence from the public, and felt competition from newcomers offering products that are cheaper and faster, with questionable quality. Most of all, both #journalism and #highered may be trying to straddle an impossible gap, to serve society and also make piles of money -- or in the case of colleges, grow resources and climb #rankings that serve the institutions more than the students. As Mark Salisbury of TuitionFit put it to me recently: Everyone says higher education needs to be truly #studentcentered and to put #studentsuccess first, while also telling colleges that they have to run like a #business. At some level, those two things are incompatible.

In my new article on the future of journalism, I suggested ways journalism schools should adapt to the ‘new journalism’, following the key trends in journalism. Please click on the link below: https://lnkd.in/d4jsiYnz #journalism #media #data #datapresentation #algorithm #digitaljournalism

Is Journalism more than just telling stories? Jeff Jarvis says it's about connecting us and the world around us. In his article, he states that when we hear news stories that resonate with our own experiences, it can feel like we're not alone. It can make us feel like we're part of a larger community. But journalism can also force division if it only focuses on what divides us. It can make us feel like we're different and like we don't have anything in common. In his view, the best journalism does both: it tells us about the world and helps us connect. It helps us see other people's humanity, even when disagreeing. He makes a good point that we need journalism that gives a voice to the excluded people. We need journalism that challenges the status quo and asks tough questions about power and privilege. In short, journalism should inspire us to take action and make the world a better place. Creating a media landscape that reflects values and promotes a more just and equitable society. #journalism #values #beloning https://lnkd.in/ehCFZqMW

In a world where journalism for the next Gen needs to find a new innovative and re-invigorated voice, and in doing so address so many issues (legacy, present and forward-looking) along comes UNPRESS. Yesterday I met some of the key advisors and it was heartening and uplifting to learn about them and the overall desire to redress journalism, from being aware of the many problems it faces. From me, some of those issues are legacy; journalism of the 1950s ( which has not changed much) in difficulty from the complexities of several societal changes. Some are new, born out from technological developments in which journalism has not been able to respond appropriately. Some too stems from societal shifts interfaced with tech that yields bad faith actors and their intent to malign. This isn't new. Take Edward Bernays' work. Or the Mohawk Valley Formula for quelling strikes. However, now this comms pathway is intentional and naked. UnPress sets a marker that professionals and academic institutions should take note. You could read their launch Press Release here. https://lnkd.in/efs83jQ3 In the next post, I'll include a link with an exclusive with CEO from our new international publication Media Hyphenates. #news #journalism #storytelling #innovation

I took the 2023 State of Data Journalism survey from European Journalism Centre (EJC), and here's 3 reasons you should, too. Deadline: Jan. 16, 2023 1. It's vital information to help understand our industry. Aren't we always complaining that there's not enough data on the journalism industry? That we don't have comprehensive data on who works where and does what?? Take the damn survey and be part of the solution. 2. It's pretty quick and very painless. You'll be done taking the survey before you finish that afternoon cup of coffee. 3. You could win a FREE trip to Italy for the International Journalism Festival in Perugia in April 2024. What are you waiting for?? Take the survey: https://lnkd.in/eVT58jGs datajournalism[dot]com/survey #ddj #datajournalism

Luigi Zingales and Bethany McLean from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business hosted Semafor co-founder Ben Smith to discuss the future of journalism. Episode Notes Given the recent mass layoffs, acceleration of media consolidation, continued decline of local journalism, and rapid uptake of generative AI, the news industry—fundamental to institutional accountability in capitalist democracies—appears to be in deep crisis. Joining Bethany and Luigi to make the case that journalism can not only survive but thrive is Ben Smith, longtime journalist, former New York Times media columnist, co-founder of global digital news publication Semafor, and the author of "Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral." How much of today's state of journalism can be attributed to mistakes and how much to inevitability? Where does the marriage between social media and news go next? How can journalism remain financially viable? Offering a nuanced perspective on the opportunities and pitfalls facing the news industry today, the three of them discuss the future of journalism in the age of clicks and a path back to a media landscape that informs, educates, and holds power to account. https://lnkd.in/gcpARtZx

As digital noise grows, where does that leave the stories that matter? At FactorDaily, we're calling for a resurgence of the human touch in journalism through 'The Age of Artisan Journalism.' Pankaj Mishra's essay is an invitation to embrace deep, human-centric narratives in an age overrun by technology. How can we ensure that journalism remains a craft that genuinely connects? Join us in this conversation. https://lnkd.in/g_fnZWVt  #ArtisanJournalism #HumanCentricMedia #FactorDaily

Leave it to Jennifer Brandel to weave new metaphors for journalism that is closer to our daily needs. Here's 4 from interviewing her; Jenn's framing helps ask different Qs, which can lead to different ways of doing and being: 🔻 THE LAST MILE. Urban planners often think about the last mile problem, where there’s so many people who live a mile or more away from where a bus stop service line will end, or a train service line will end. And I feel like journalism so often drops people off in the middle of nowhere with the articles, where they don't know where to go or what they can do about it. 🔻 COLLECTIVE SENSE-MAKING. You’re on your phone, you’re watching a video, you’re doing something, you are an individual choosing your own adventure, and taking in this information that is really difficult and complicated. And you’re often doing it by yourself. How might journalists create spaces for collective sense making, where you can go “here’s this major issue, and here’s 10 different ways that it’s impacting people”, and hear from the people themselves who are being impacted in different ways. 🔻 HOW NATURE COMMUNICATES. Communication in nature happens in three parts: there has to be a signal, so something being pushed out, there has to be transduction, so some kind of meaning-making from that signal, and then there has to be a response. And without all three of those things, there is no communication. Journalism is so obsessed with and so hyper-muscular about the signal, and not the transduction, and not the response. We’re focused on informing, but not engaging and equipping people for what to do next. 🔻 THE CONSTELLATION. The original sin or the biggest sin of journalism is not acknowledging that we need each other. Not acknowledging our interdependence is like what is also continuing isolation, alienation, loneliness that people are feeling. But interdependence is the key to a thriving ecosystem. So even within a city, how can a newsroom look at itself not as a destination, as in a hub and spoke model, but instead as being a node in a network, a constellation. I wrote more from my conversation with Jenn and assorted thoughts in my most recent newsletter: https://lnkd.in/d3Hqg7UD

In this week's Behind the Blog, I wrote about the strange feeling of watching people openly speculate about whether 404 Media will succeed or fail. We’ve gotten a lot of press since launching, all of it very good and charitable and optimistic, including an article that came out in the Columbia Journalism Review yesterday. In it, a journalism professor says, “The best journalists in the world may not know anything about running a company. It’s a much different ballgame when you are talking about keeping on the lights, as opposed to making sure your FOIA doesn’t go years and years without an answer.” It is a different ballgame. I never thought I’d own part of a business, and it wasn’t necessarily a dream of mine. And if the state of the industry wasn’t so absolute shit, and I didn’t believe in this being one of very few ways to keep journalism alive and journalists thriving, and if I didn’t have the other three to do this with... I would never have imagined doing it. But the people “keeping on the lights” at many major publications today are frankly inept. They’re so detached from what journalism is, why it’s valuable, and what people actually want from it that they buy outlets and brands they seem to actively hate and turn once-stellar newsrooms into shell-shocked dog food factories. None of my co-founders at 404 went to business school, or journalism school for that matter, but I think we’re doing ok. The “ballgame” those people are playing is like betting on Dizzy Bat with other people’s cash. It’s not the same. Read more: https://lnkd.in/eCMVvrZk