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David Simon: Why journalism matters

Please take five minutes to read the story at the link below. It is why many journalists do what they do. We ought to make sure more Americans know it. And we all need to care about it. Because if we don't, someday one of us will be ensnared in some inpenetrable cloud of government bureaucracy, violence or malfeasance - and there will be no one there to help us. Here's the link, to a piece by David Simon, author of "The Wire": http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/27/AR2009022703591.html

Readings from Bill Densmore

• Aaron Sorkin, the TV and movie ("The Social Network") script writer, is part of the reason why I have been helping with JTM-Denver. To read why, GO HERE.

• "The discussion we should be having is how better to build valuable relationships of trust with people as people, not masses, and then how to exploit that value to support the work they want us to do. We can't force them to do what we want anymore. For now, media are voluntary," writes CUNY professor Jeff Jarvis at the end of his critical blog post this week: http://www.buzzmachine.com/2013/03/03/voluntary-media/

• In mid-February the Poynter Institute's website carried a detailed report on the Rocky Mountain news ecosystem after the loss of the RMN:

http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/top-stories/203561/how-the-media-scene-has-changed-in-colorado-since-the-rocky-mountain-news-folded/

• Sarah van Gelder, co-founder and executive editor of YES! magazine, has recorded a 10-minute TED-talk on appreciative journalism. Peggy Holman writes she was particularly intrigued by the "appreciative questions" Sarah suggests we ask: What's possible now? What matters most? What's working? Who's leading? How do we get to the root issues? What would happen if this change took hold? Here's the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yHGFg0BKok [www.youtube.com]

• The legacy newspaper industry is all abuzz with what's going on at the Deseret News in Salt Lake City. How much of what is going on their under the tutelage of Clark Gilbert, a former Harvard Business School prof, is relevant generally to the next newsroom and the journalism that lives? Here's the link: http://www.americanpressinstitute.org/Training/Transformation-Tour/Six-Principles-Clark-Gilbert-Has-Used-To-Transform-The-Deseret-News.aspx

• This post from a Chicago writer, explains how she came to pay more attention to her city neighborhood because of Everyblock, which NBC closed last week. It was entitled: "Being Here vs. Living Here: Why Everyblock Mattered." LINK: http://www.wbez.org/blogs/britt-julious/2013-02/being-here-vs-living-here-why-everyblock-mattered-105550

• John Hammer, head of the Washington (state) News Council and a longtime JTM collaborator, notes the publication in the Seattle Times of his "TAO of Journalism" concept -- Transparency, Accountability, Openness." Here's the link: http://services.nwsource.com/nie/times/pdfs/2-20-13_TAO_Wk1.pdf

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