10:45am on 10\/3
\nTool for Engagement – Conversation about the Field Guide
\nElisa, Sheetal, Margaret, Caitlin, Jana, Bill, Andrew, Stephen, Ashley, Rachel<\/p>\n
Lets talk about engagement experiences that can be used as models<\/p>\n
Jana:
\nActivist journalism — do you get the stories through community storytelling? we have several websites that help grow awareness. \u201cTiny House Village\u201d – Village Eugene. We put the info on those websites and I have a couple of different YouTube channels.<\/p>\n
Caitlin:
\nWe have thought a lot about the circle — engagement becomes something that comes back to inform the reporting. This is an example of how to measure successful engagement.<\/p>\n
The Nail Salon story from the NYT = an example of what engagement looks like.<\/p>\n
Amanda: PIN Bureau
\nWe got to pick any commmunity that we wanted to reach out to. Shootings had taken place in Waco and I picked women bikers.
\nShowed up at events, started meeting people for coffee, and I used PIN queries. Queries on social media.
\nThey were an example of the community that wanted to be engaged and be heard.<\/p>\n
Jana: I didn\u2019t go into it thinking I would help empower people but thats what came up out of my process.<\/p>\n
Ashley: Makeout Care — stories around a guy named Al. Unlikely to vote. Connected him to candidates to issues he care about. He was an apathetic non voter and we turned him into a voter.<\/p>\n
Earthquake Safety and Schools in California: I worked to develop a coloring book with Red Cross.<\/p>\n
Ashley: Go from perceived need to identifying actual need and then respond to that<\/p>\n
Sheetal: There is a level of embeddness at the heart of these different stories. Being on the ground, creating trust. But there is a real tension for journalists who need to fight resistance w\/in culture of journalism and find financial support for that kind of work.
\nCaitlin – Tension is really to get journalists to think about embedding at all.<\/p>\n
Jana had an experience where she did the work and after the fact received grant money to share her process and then support from university to spread it farther. So alternative way to develop resources to support the project?<\/p>\n
Embeddedness — core quality of engagement?
\nQuantitative data is that community engagement? Community Generative versus journalist generated. It\u2019s a question to address.<\/p>\n
Elisa: Discussed the insights from the \u201cTeaching\u201d session
\nTensions
\n— embedded versus distance in reporting about a community
\n— know when to speak for versus creating a platform for them to share their own stories
\n— face time
\n— before during and after
\n— iterative\/embedded and occurs over time and in stages<\/p>\n
Elisa:
\nGet people to go out and actually do something. Its a slightly different orientation.<\/p>\n
Wish list:
\nCreating more community journalists (Elisa)
\nHelp non-journalists engage<\/p>\n
Instruction manuals, handbooks, etc what are examples that we\u2019d like to see?<\/p>\n
What are parts of engagement
\nJana: Listening is a big part of the engagement process
\nElisa: Distilling process
\nElisa: Self-care
\nRachel: What to do w\/info on or off the record information — Ethical consideration (something
\nSetting expectations from the beginning in this type of work is important
\nBill: discussion of technical resources that are available
\nMargaret: tools for getting to know community you are entering; cultural etiquette; geography; leaders; media outlets
\nBill: measurement information
\nElisa: Participatory tools
\nCaitlin: Goals, how to set goals (collaboratively?) — in order to do engagement do you need collaboration? if not, why not?
\nJana: Activist etiquette
\nQuality improvement
\nSharing successes and failures
\nInterviewing Skills<\/p>\n
Sheetal: Can we consider the type of information that can come from the broader community beyond journalist contribution?
\n-Elisa: Know possible partners<\/p>\n
Bill: Who is this for? I\u2019m imagining I\u2019m a legacy news reporter and I\u2019m trying to engage w\/a particular community. Let\u2019s say drug treatment facility. Are we imagining this is a multi-media web resource for me to go learn how to do that?<\/p>\n
Elisa: It could be. We\u2019re getting a general blueprint.
\nLaying out the process and production is part of the goal of this tool.<\/p>\n
Bill: How tos approach. How do I go get the story? How do I write it? How do I share it?<\/p>\n
Stephen:
\nThe field guide needs to have a well curated resource section.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
10:45am on 10\/3 Tool for Engagement – Conversation about the Field Guide Elisa, Sheetal, Margaret, Caitlin, Jana, Bill, Andrew, Stephen, Ashley, Rachel Lets talk about engagement experiences that can be used as models Jana: Activist journalism — do you get … Continue reading