RJI-Collaboratory-journalism

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What is journalism in the new medium of the Web? What are its values and functions in a participatory democracy? We plan to make signs out of these slogans and put them around the Fred W. Smith Forum. The purpose is to remind us that we're entering a new medium, and to help us focus on journalism in the new medium. Here's what we've come up with so far. Use the wiki function to add your suggestions:

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.

Journalism is . . .

  • a lifestyle.
  • participatory.
  • contextual.
  • solution-oriented.
  • immediate and continuous.
  • personal.

Journalism is . . .

  • a conversation.
  • the stories of our time.
  • community glue.
  • verified gossip.
  • democracy's mouthpiece.


More self-contained statements

  • 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.
  • The road goes on forever, and the story never ends.(Robert Earle Keene Jr.




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