{"id":42,"date":"2005-04-30T20:30:12","date_gmt":"2005-05-01T04:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/fetzer1\/?p=42"},"modified":"2005-04-30T20:30:12","modified_gmt":"2005-05-01T04:30:12","slug":"whats-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/fetzer1\/2005\/04\/30\/whats-next\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s Next?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #444444;line-height: 24px;font-size: 16px\"><em>On the last day, each participant reflected in silence, answering the following questions:<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p>v\u00a0 What have you learned?<\/p>\n<p>v\u00a0 What project idea do <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">you <\/span>want to pursue as a first next step?<\/p>\n<p>v\u00a0 Who do you want to involve?<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Chris<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">What I have learned<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Storytelling endures, the search for meaning endures, but\u2026This doesn\u2019t mean journalism will endure, or be recognizable in the forms where it appears today.<\/li>\n<li>Journalism takes many shapes: words on paper, images on a screen, bits on a computer, songs, stories from elders, messages on you phone. Many more people, therefore, are becoming journalists.<\/li>\n<li>The challenge for today\u2019s journalist is to begin now to engage a next generation of journalists in the best and highest purposes of an endangered craft, even as new forms and platforms for journalism emerge.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Project ideas I would pursue<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The healthy journalist. By renewing the \u201cinner journalist\u201d I believe it possible to realize the \u201couter journalist\u201d to tell more hopeful, complete, and meaningful stories.<\/li>\n<li>Elders and new explorers. I think today\u2019s most experienced journalists can, and should, pair up with the emerging next generation of journalists \u2013 online, in new technology, etc. to share knowledge.<\/li>\n<li>New business models to support journalists. We must find ways to separate journalism from its current business model, or watch journalism wither.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Who would I involve?<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Change agents within journalism today<\/li>\n<li>Journalism fellowship programs\n<ul>\n<li>Nieman<\/li>\n<li>Michigan<\/li>\n<li>Stanford<\/li>\n<li>Poynter<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Fetzer<\/li>\n<li>Open space<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Jim<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"> <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">What I have learned<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I am not alone.<\/li>\n<li>New theories of change.<\/li>\n<li>New group techniques, e.g. open spaces.<\/li>\n<li>The field may finally be ripe for new seeds.<\/li>\n<li>Collaboration with Fetzer\/Stephen\/Peggy might be a better way for me to make a difference.<\/li>\n<li>I\u2019ll have to re-think how I will spend my remaining time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">What project idea do you want to pursue as a first next step?<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Help design processes and occasions by which journalists and journalistic organizations \u2013 broadly defined \u2013 may learn, adapt, and help others to do the same.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Who do you want to involve?<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cInside\u201d stakeholders<\/li>\n<li>Outside\/new\/social stakeholders<\/li>\n<li>Other agents for change\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Karen<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">What I have learned<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Compassion of the journalist for craft.<\/li>\n<li>Ties of journalistic craft to business model.<\/li>\n<li>New ways of communicating humanity and media literacy work.<\/li>\n<li>New reference material to use in grassroots media justice\/democracy work.<\/li>\n<li>Deeper understanding of open space practice and concept.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">What project idea do you want to pursue as a first next step?<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Journalist-to-community training to create open and active collaborations in newsgathering.<\/li>\n<li>Creation of \u201ccultural\u201d activities to engage the community in active journalism\/storytelling.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Who do you want to involve?<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cTraditional\u201d journalists-reporters<\/li>\n<li>Publishers<\/li>\n<li>News directors<\/li>\n<li>Bloggers<\/li>\n<li>Youth<\/li>\n<li>Grassroots<\/li>\n<li>Key legislators<\/li>\n<li>Public opinion leaders<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Nora<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"> <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"> <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Reconfirmed journalism is operating from<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><a href=\"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/fetzer1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/486\/2011\/01\/Nora.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-43\" title=\"Nora\" src=\"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/fetzer1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/486\/2011\/01\/Nora.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"404\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/fetzer1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/486\/2011\/01\/Nora.jpg 404w, https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/fetzer1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/486\/2011\/01\/Nora-300x273.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 404px) 100vw, 404px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What I need to get over<\/li>\n<li>So cynical \u2013 can\u2019t change<\/li>\n<li>Too touchy-feely<\/li>\n<li>Will only accept practical not spiritual<\/li>\n<li>Can a real difference be made?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">What I have learned<\/span><\/p>\n<p>There is a way<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To rethink<\/li>\n<li>To re-energize<\/li>\n<li>To restore<br \/>\nJournalists\u2019 faith in themselves.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Give them campfires to tell stories around and to warm themselves.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Project ideas<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Propose\/create\/conduct after conference reflection\/conversation sessions \u201cJ.A.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Start a storytelling site to contribute the stories.<\/li>\n<li>Balance the story \u2013 appreciate.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Scott Libin<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Scott left the meeting on Friday evening.\u00a0 He answered the questions by e-mail.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">What did I learn? <\/span><\/p>\n<p>One of the things that interests me most is the notion that journalism is evolving along lines similar to past social phenomena.\u00a0 I&#8217;m fascinated by the notion that news reporting might be today where literacy was a couple of centuries ago:\u00a0 still in the hands of an elite, relatively small number of people, and on the verge of spreading throughout the population.\u00a0 It&#8217;s conceivable that the practice of journalism will, over the next several years,\u00a0become as ubiquitous as the practice of reading and writing is now.\u00a0\u00a0It&#8217;s also noteworthy that, even in nations with the world&#8217;s highest rates of literacy, not everyone can make a living reading and writing.\u00a0 Similarly, I don&#8217;t believe that all journalism will be equally competent in the future.\u00a0 I believe the profusion of information sources will make even more valuable the role &#8220;traditional&#8221; news organizations play in helping consumers sort and analyze various streams of news.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">What project do I want to pursue as a first next step? <\/span><\/p>\n<p>I am both excited and concerned by the blogging phenomenon.\u00a0 I wonder &#8212; with some sense of urgency &#8212; what its role will be in the larger spectrum of information gathering, processing and distribution.\u00a0 Some of that is journalism; some is not.\u00a0 This is true of print, broadcast and online communication; blogs are no exception.\u00a0 What&#8217;s the financial model, if any, that can\u00a0harness the positive power of blogging so that it isn&#8217;t just something people practice after hours, when they come home from their jobs at Wal-Mart?\u00a0 If blogs are to unseat &#8220;mainstream media&#8221; as the principal method by which consumers inform and govern themselves, how do the bills get paid?\u00a0 What happens to the stories that can&#8217;t be told incrementally and\u00a0inexpensively by community-based journalists?\u00a0 I&#8217;m interested in further exploration of that question.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Whom do I want to involve? <\/span><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to get some bloggers into the conversation.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know specifically which ones, but I would hope some might be &#8220;recovering&#8221; MSM types like Andrew Sullivan.\u00a0 Others might be creations of the blogosphere itself &#8212; sources who had no outlet until technology made it possible for everybody to publish cheaply and easily.\u00a0 I&#8217;m less interested in those with narrow interests or political agendas to pursue, but they are a force to be reckoned with, and\u00a0perhaps we should make room at the table for some of them, as well.\u00a0 (Of course I use the term &#8220;table&#8221;\u00a0in the figurative sense only, as I realize such barriers violate open space!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the last day, each participant reflected in silence, answering the following questions: v\u00a0 What have you learned? v\u00a0 What project idea do you want to pursue as a first next step? v\u00a0 Who do you want to involve? 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