It’s time for a new compact between Journalists and the Public. We need you.  Your work is vital to the well-being of us all.  I can’t imagine a functional democracy without the passionate commitment journalists make to digging deeply into what matters.  It is a sacred trust and I thank you for doing it on [...]

This group proposes the development of a Civic Communications Commons (CCC) in Seattle and King County as a common civic infrastructure that connects virtual and face-to-face civic, community, and neighborhood spaces. It’s proposal says: “The CCC would be a common civic space in Seattle, growing from the many existing resources in neighborhoods, communities, the non-profit [...]

The first full day of JTM/PNW was possibility day — a series of conversations about questions. Here are some of the topics: Can open government online help sustain the new news ecology? How can we create sustainable freelance in an increasingly decentralized newsroom? What is possibility, solution journalism and how can I do it? Do [...]

Submitted by Jay M. Young on Fri, 03/20/2009 – 11:46am This is a gloves-off, newsroom style conversation from a JTM discussion group this week. The honesty is refreshing, the conversation is necessary and hopefully continues. Jay Maurreen Skowran Mar 15, 2:53 am 1. My perception is that news organizations are relatively blind to journalism as conversation, that [...]

Submitted by PeggyHolman on Wed, 06/04/2008 – 9:00am My friend and colleague, Tom Atlee, founder of the The Co-Intelligence Institute, developed a map of stories entitled Whole System Learning and Evolution — and the New Journalism that I think has great potential as a way of thinking about what is required for both great stories and great story-telling [...]