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.
  • 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.


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.
  • 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.
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