http://www.newshare.com/wiki/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=John+Hamer&feedformat=atomIVP Wiki - User contributions [en]2024-03-28T21:31:44ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.31.1http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php?title=Jtm-pnw-tao-pledge&diff=2836Jtm-pnw-tao-pledge2010-01-11T18:46:54Z<p>John Hamer: New page: JTMPNW SATURDAY 3 PM BREAKOUT SESSION NOTES TOPIC: Take the “TAO of Journalism” Pledge – A Commitment to Transparency, Accountability and Openness as a Path to Trust. CONVENOR: Joh...</p>
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<div>JTMPNW SATURDAY 3 PM BREAKOUT SESSION NOTES<br />
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TOPIC: Take the “TAO of Journalism” Pledge – A Commitment to Transparency, Accountability and Openness as a Path to Trust.<br />
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CONVENOR: John Hamer, Washington News Council <br />
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NOTE: This session was cancelled because John Hamer thought he had lost his computer, and had to begin a search of the room. He later discovered that he had left his computer at home accidentally. (He would like to thank everyone who helped him search for it in the room at Haggett Hall, and apologize for being such a total, complete idiot.)<br />
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HOWEVER: Many people came up to John during JTM’s three days and asked about the TAO of Journalism Seal idea and how it would work. (SEE BELOW.) John also sold T-shirts ($10 each) with the TAO Seal on the front. To order one, visit www.wanewscouncil.org. <br />
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HOW IT WORKS:<br />
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BY DISPLAYING THIS SEAL, <br />
WE HEREBY AGREE TO BE:<br />
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TRANSPARENT – We will fully disclose who we are, our journalistic mission and our guiding principles. We will post information on our background and expertise, including education and experience. We will list advertisers, donors, grants, and any other payments that support our work. If affiliated with a political party or special-interest group, we will disclose that. If lobbying for any particular legislation or regulation, we will disclose that. If we are being paid to promote a product or cause, we will disclose that. If other factors could be seen as potential conflicts of interest, we will disclose them. <br />
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ACCOUNTABLE – If we get any facts wrong, we will admit that promptly and publicly. We will post/publish/print/podcast/broadcast a correction or at least a clarification. We will fully explain what happened to cause the error or mistake. We will do a follow-up story if that is appropriate, putting the original material in better context. We will apologize and promise to be more careful next time. We will show a little humility.<br />
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OPEN – If there are credible challenges to our point of view or simply differences of opinion, we will be open to contrary positions. We will give the other side(s) opportunity and space to express their views and engage in open public dialogue through comments or other means. If we are primarily engaged in opinion and commentary, rather than news reporting, we will make that clear – while inviting others to express their opinions through comment and feedback means.<br />
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We do not necessarily agree to abide by any particular code of journalism ethics or professional standards, although we may choose to do so. If we do, we will declare that publicly. If we don’t, we will declare that as well. We understand that this will not be enforced by any outside organized group. It will be overseen by everyone on the Internet who wants to see high standards of transparency, accountability and openness in journalism – through whatever media platform. We understand that if someone using the “TAO Seal” starts violating its basic principles, they will be admonished, criticized, reprimanded and embarrassed in public through the awesome power of the Internet. Call it “crowdsourcing” ethics and accuracy. In summary, we believe that Transparency, Accountability and Openness are keys to our personal credibility and public trust. <br />
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NOTE: The TAO of Journalism Seal is a registered trademark. Call 206.262.9793 for permission to use it in print, broadcast or online. It is open to individuals and organizations.</div>John Hamerhttp://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php?title=Jtm-pnw-session-grant-hamer&diff=2835Jtm-pnw-session-grant-hamer2010-01-11T18:42:36Z<p>John Hamer: New page: JTMPNW SESSION NOTES – SATURDAY, JAN. 9, 1:30 PM TOPIC: Help me spend $200,000 (Gates Foundation grant) to reinvent the Washington News Council. We have a Job Opening for a Project Man...</p>
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<div>JTMPNW SESSION NOTES – SATURDAY, JAN. 9, 1:30 PM <br />
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TOPIC: Help me spend $200,000 (Gates Foundation grant) to reinvent the Washington News Council. We have a Job Opening for a Project Manager.<br />
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CONVENOR: John Hamer, Executive Director, Washington News Council<br />
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PARTICIPANTS: Carrie Shaw, Jim Bellinger, Rob Moitoza, Pam Kilborn-Miller, Mike Kitross, Sarajane Sigefriedt, Brian Glanz, Bart Preecs, Alex Stonehill, Susan <br />
Adler, Mitsue Cook, Paul Lowenberg, Kristin Millis, Maurreen Skowran, Leif Utne <br />
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John Hamer explained that the WNC recently got a $100,000 “challenge grant” from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that he matched with another $100,000 in donations from other sources, and he was genuinely interested in new ideas and suggestions on how to spend the funds.<br />
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We went around the circle and introduced ourselves and why we came to this session. John explained what the WNC's traditional activities and programs have been since it was founded in 1998 -- i.e., a kind of "outside ombudsman" for WA state media.<br />
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John passed out copies of the WNC’s brochure, mission statement, and Job Description for a new Project Manager, which would start as a part-time job.<br />
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Mike Kittross said the WNC’s Mission Statement had 4 major players: the Public, Media Institutions, the Troops (reporters and editors), and Sources (government, business, and “targets” of stories). He asked if the WNC’s mission might be changed to focus more on the Sources and opening them up to respond to the media better. <br />
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John Hamer noted that the Washington Coalition for Open Government already did that, and he was on the WACOG’s Advisory Committee. He said the WNC wanted to be more of a Coalition for Open Media. <br />
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Carrie Shaw noted that a survey of journalists by the Pew Center for the People and the Press had found that journalists who made campaign contributions in the Kerry-Bush presidential election gave more to Kerry by a 10-1 ratio, and asked if the WNC would address the issue of political bias among journalists.<br />
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John said that was not part of our mission, and we focused on Washington state. He said the WNC was non-partisan and/or bipartisan, and we were pretty evenly divided among Republicans and Democrats on our Founding Board and Council.<br />
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Karen Toering asked if the WNC might become a convenor and mediator with the ethnic press, an archive of weekly ethnic newspapers, and more demographically specific. John said that was an interesting idea worth considering.<br />
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Kristin Millis noted that victims (of domestic abuse, for example) often don’t know that they are victims, and wondered if the WNC might take on the role of educating the public about the media’s job, best practices, etc. She said that education about media literacy should start early, preferably in grade school. She also said the WNC should do more social networking. John agreed that was a shortcoming today, and we want to get better at it – which could be part of the new Project Manager’s job.<br />
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Leif Utne said his Zanby software program could be very helpful in linking the WNC to other media and community organizations interested in more dialogue and discussion about media issues and ethics. The Uptake, for example, offers livestreaming, video, and liveblogging. John said that would be a great WNC tool.<br />
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Mike Kittross suggested that the WNC might do a Directory of Media organizations statewide as a resource. He also said the WNC could give small grants to students for research and travel statewide to examine and write about media issues.<br />
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Sarajane asked if the WNC’s activities were publicized through press releases or other means. John said all of our hearings were televised statewide on TVW, and we got some press coverage in print and broadcast, but we needed to do much more online. He explained how the WNC in early 2009 held a “virtual hearing” in the complaint of Secretary of State Sam Reed vs. KIRO7 TV, and citizens statewide voted and commented on the two KIRO stories at issues. They almost unanimously criticized KIRO for inaccurate and shoddy journalism. <br />
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Brian Glanz asked what was the result or outcome of our proceedings and findings. John said the WNC’s only real power was in shame, embarrassment and publicity for the offending media organizations. He said that public accountability was a two-way street, and the media need to be held publicly accountable for their ethics and performance. He said that was a way to rebuild public trust and credibility, but that many journalists resisted that kind of public review and critique, which is too bad.<br />
He said media organizations that were more Transparent, Accountable and Open would win friends, readers, viewers and listeners, and even use it as a PR tool. He mentioned the TAO of Journalism Seal idea that the WNC is now promoting as "A Commitment to Transparency, Accountability and Openness." He said it would be a voluntary, self-affixed seal and anyone could use it, from an individual blogger to a hyperlocal newsite to a mainstream media outlet. It would be overseen by everyone on the Web. He also offered TAO Seal T-shirts to everyone for only $10 each. <br />
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Brian Glanz said that the WNC should develop an online ad that people could use by clicking through, to help raise our profile. Many non-profits could benefit from this, he said. John said that was a great idea and we’d pursue it.</div>John Hamerhttp://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php?title=Jtm-pnw-session-post-jtmpnw&diff=2834Jtm-pnw-session-post-jtmpnw2010-01-11T18:30:43Z<p>John Hamer: </p>
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<div>Keeping the Conversation Going—Susan Gleason & John Hamer & Charles Hamilton & Mike Fancher<br />
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How to create info strategies at the local and global levels? Pamela has tools and experience! <br />
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Machael Bradbury—Open Science Foundation, created a lab, the JTM Experience to host. Link at www.Jtmpnw.org <br />
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The people here are much larger than the people who use the tools? Do we create something new or do we take advantage of what’s out there? Pretty much everyone in the circle (25 now) are on Facebook, some more than others. <br />
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Anne Stadler, expert at Open Space technology, on which this conference is based. It’s an enormously robust foundation for bringing forth practical results. Offers to help. Very interested in online collaborative opportunity. Thinks Facebook and Linked in are incredibly arid. We can invent better tools for collaboration. <br />
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Charlie Hamilton: There are at least three tools that I’m aware of that could help. <br />
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Mike Fancher—that the whole be greater than the sum of the parts. Votes for in-person component, not too frequent, perhaps quarterly. <br />
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Amy Rainey supports in-person mixers. Seattle, maybe Portland and Vancouver could host. Linked In is useful to create a professional group, search for skills. Use the Forum section. <br />
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Aaron Hartwell—think of small d democracy. <br />
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Kim Lowe—producer with MSNBC.com Noticed a website for people who have a garden space with people who want space to garden. Need website to connect people who have skills to offer consulting, tutorials, specialized skills and knowledge to share. <br />
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Bart Preecs:--Linked In has a lot of the tools. Consider Facebook. <br />
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Cameron Hall, STAVE, architect and activist—I’m a node to other communities. Should we expand this conversation to those who aren’t here? <br />
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I’m a board member of a MN-based NPO called “the Uptake” that live-streamed the Al Franken debates. Zanby is another platform we might consider, similar to Google Groups and Linked-in. You can cluster groups into group families. <br />
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Madeline Ostrander-- Senior editor at Yes! Listservs also work. <br />
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Enrique Cerna from KCTS—Interested to see what happens and participate. <br />
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Tom Bangasser, Vashon College—interested in democracy. I hear the technology part, but what’s missing? The journalists are the weavers. What’s missing are the librarians, who tell us where we’ve been. They are the most honest brokers of information. They make us more efficient. (They were invited.) <br />
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Sarajane Siegfriedt—combined journalism and MBA and non-profit background, committed to watching government, making sure we have in-depth beat coverage. <br />
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Bill Richards—Interested in how you use electronic tools, including collaborative efforts like this and where a group like this takes you in terms of how to tell stories better. (Bill is the primary author of the Washington News Council's 2007 report on the Spokesman Review’s coverage of its own owners over 10 years of a controversial development issue. See www.wanewscouncil.org.) <br />
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Dale Steinke—KING5.com and a hyperlocal blog Phinneywood. Wants to see where we have opportunities to nail it down. Yes to face-to-face. Otherwise it’s very dry. <br />
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Sally James--regional journalist about medicine and science <br />
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Mike: we can find a purpose, say what’s missing, find someone(s) to fill that gap. It make take a series of meetings to find that. <br />
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Anne: It’s really dangerous to put the tools first. Have profiles, exchange tools, expand membership (Linked-In has 53 million members). But what is the idea, the criteria for the tools? <br />
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Unless we decide that we’re going to have a convening circle that helps to emerge this, and a purpose, it won’t happen. It’s incredibly important. We can add members to the convening group. We need more diversity. What will you take responsibility for? <br />
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What do we want to happen—key words?<br />
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* Further networking—Susan<br />
* Identifying technologies--Charlie<br />
* Intermediary to new emerging tech<br />
* Business model—Michael<br />
* Exploring collaboration online a/w/a FTF over time—Anne<br />
* More & better journalism—finding funding—Mike Fancher<br />
* Help with tools—Amy<br />
* Eastside group—Kim<br />
* Debate about policy questions—Bart<br />
* Networking and inquiry—Cameron<br />
* Help with IT—Leif Utne<br />
* Enrique—participation<br />
* Sharon T—Conversations around sustainable media<br />
* Thomas Bangasser—JTM come up with a model for balance of content for democracy, not just what we want, but what we need to read<br />
* Sarajane Siegfriedt—citizen activist regarding Olympia, commit to work on the business model<br />
* Bill Richards—the business model<br />
* John Hamer—provide a venue (WNC office above Pyramid Alehouse) and refreshments, reach out to other groups, ideological diversity is important, bring in others from the right of center.<br />
* Dale Steinke—face-to-face meetings and business model<br />
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Tools we use: (N=23)<br />
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* Facebook—23<br />
* Linked-In—22<br />
* Twitter—16<br />
* Email—all<br />
* Jtmpnwd site—23<br />
* Ning—13<br />
* Skype—16<br />
* Gotomeeting or webx—15<br />
* Googlegoups or Yahoogroups—23<br />
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Anne—Need to have a better tool for collaboration than these, one that allows people to create from a place of creativity, rather than ego. <br />
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Opensciencefoundation.com is a social network, group log using wordpress platform<br />
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Newhive is in beta<br />
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Zanby lets you create groups similar to Google groups, but you can have multiple listservs within it for different subtopics and different preferences for each, daily, weekly, all. Can use tagging to surface text and photos. Leif Utne has the expertise.<br />
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Basecamp is a great tool for tracking a project. <br />
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Charlie asks, what can we do today so that we are connected before we leave here? We can use this for deciding what the long-term technologies will be. <br />
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Sarajane—We will need to be able to look at shared docs, including Excel, in a shared space such as Google. Charlie says jtmpnw.org can do this.</div>John Hamer