JOURNALISM THAT MATTERS:
Inspiring Conversations among Emerging Media Leaders
Advisory Group Planning Meeting
April 28-30, 2005
Agenda
Overall Purpose
To engage emerging news media leaders – our society’s storytellers – in a dialogue about a future for media that reconnects it to the best of its fundamental roots and imagines its potential for shaping a healthy future so that powerful relationships are formed and inspired action is seeded.
Meeting Purpose
To explore possibilities for this project, creating connections among us, forming a strong advisory group and inspiring next steps, likely to include a by-invitation conference.
Process
Before the event
Conduct Appreciative Interviews
Purpose: To begin to imagine the future of journalism through our individual experiences and aspirations for its future
Thursday, April 28
3:30pm Introduction
Purpose, outcomes for the weekend, something about Fetzer (who they are, why they are funding this, what they expect and aspire to as a result)
3:45 Welcome, Purpose, Agenda
4:00 Fetzer: what it is, why they are hosting this meeting
4:15 Introductions
- Your background,
- what excited you about coming
5:30 Dinner
6:30 Storytelling
Friday, April 29
Open Space on Journalism that Matters: the purpose, meaning, and practices of journalism that meet today’s needs
Everyone involved in this project has their own picture of what “journalism that matters” means. Using the emergent nature of Open Space, people can explore what this subject means to them and begin to converge on a collective understanding of what we can accomplish together.
- For example, one session we see ourselves hosting is news through a lens of love and forgiveness
7:30a Breakfast
8:30am Opening circle
9:30 Session 1
11:00 Session 2
12:30 Lunch
2:00 Session 3
3:30 Evening reflection
5:30 Dinner
Saturday, April 30
What’s next?
7:30a Breakfast
8:30 Opening circle / Council
20 minutes on their own: What did you learn?
What project do YOU want to pursue as a first next step?
Who would you involve?
9:00 Learnings
9:30 Project ideas, focus and strategize
11:10 Closing thoughts
11:30 Adjourn