Link to Google doc: https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1wfir6cTUMJ4ORDiQDMvIzbx12_PnUG1huKx5YKJ1k4g\/edit <\/p>\n
Participants: Cole Goins Heather Bryant, Jesikah Marie Ross, Annie Anderson, Burgess Brown, August Frank, Keegan Clements-Housser, Ivan Roman, Paloma Dallas, Rodney Gibbs, Paul Waters, Lillian Mongeau, Kristin Gustaff, Joy Mayer, Joe Barr, Karl Eysenbach, Emily Olsen<\/p>\n
Conversation overview: This session focused on how newsrooms should discuss and be inclusive of their own internal values, how they should communicate those values more publicly, and how they should approach engaging communities that may have different value systems. <\/p>\n
Individual points and ideas:
\nNewsrooms don\u2019t talk about our own values and biases, we often pretend that they don\u2019t exist
\nOur group talked a lot about the tension and value of a reporter\u2019s role in their own community.
\n\u201cGray areas\u201d of community-based reporting and the relationships you have in your own neighborhood. What\u2019s meant for the news and what\u2019s not?
\nYou can\u2019t be fully objective about your own community.
\nProject-based models can help challenge assumptions and values. Think about using discrete projects as experiments that can help inform greater newsroom processes and culture.
\nWe need to think about breaking through the \u201cjourno speak\u201d that our audiences and communities may not understand.
\nFor communities or individuals with different values, it can be powerful to seek common ground, rather than differences.
\nShow, rather than tell, your values.
\nThe Power of Showing Up: Building trust by being present and communicating who you are as a person.
\nThere\u2019s a distinction between \u201cbeliefs\u201d and \u201cvalues.\u201d
\nWe spent time talking about the possibilities and politics of creating \u201ccommunity advisory boards\u201d for stories, communities and projects to be inclusive and respectful of ideas, perspectives and values
\nHow to structure CABs in ways that lend direct feedback on story framing and approaches?
\nThey can work well for projects and mid-size newsrooms, but are harder to scale for statewide and national newsrooms<\/p>\n
Questions we asked:<\/p>\n
How can we be transparent in our values? Both as individual journalists and as newsrooms?
\nBeing transparent with sources and communities about your motives helps build trust and expectations for the relationship.
\nHow can we design systems that let us get input from communities on story framing, language we use, questions to ask, etc.?
\nHow could we approach political affiliation as a form of diversity in our newsrooms and organizations?
\nGeography and location deeply affects your values. How can newsrooms better connect and increase representation of outside communities?
\nHow can we outsource \/ incorporate outside expertise?
\nHow can we create a culture of inclusiveness in our own newsrooms? Better listening to the experiences, insights and values of the people across our organizations.
\nHow can we create internal \u201cgut checks\u201d on our stories, framing and the language we use?
\nHow can we respond to broken promises? Articulate the process for response if we violate our values or trust.
\nHow do you engage with people who hold deep-seated beliefs based on false facts?
\nListening as a form of understanding
\nAsk: why do you hold that perspective, and ask about the experiences that have informed those perspectives, rather than just asking their opinion.
\nGet to the root of the ideology, not the mechanics of it.
\nThere\u2019s a balance to consider when elevating different views, especially ones that may be rooted in hate. Ex: Richard Spencer and white supremacists<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Link to Google doc: https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1wfir6cTUMJ4ORDiQDMvIzbx12_PnUG1huKx5YKJ1k4g\/edit Participants: Cole Goins Heather Bryant, Jesikah Marie Ross, Annie Anderson, Burgess Brown, August Frank, Keegan Clements-Housser, Ivan Roman, Paloma Dallas, Rodney Gibbs, Paul Waters, Lillian Mongeau, Kristin Gustaff, Joy Mayer, Joe Barr, Karl Eysenbach, Emily … Continue reading