{"id":67,"date":"2005-04-28T20:54:03","date_gmt":"2005-04-29T04:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/fetzer1\/?p=67"},"modified":"2005-04-28T20:54:03","modified_gmt":"2005-04-29T04:54:03","slug":"excerpts-from-pre-meeting-interviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/fetzer1\/2005\/04\/28\/excerpts-from-pre-meeting-interviews\/","title":{"rendered":"Excerpts from Pre-Meeting Interviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><em>Throughout the room, charts with summaries and quotes from the pre-meeting appreciative \u00a0interviews were displayed:<\/em><\/h2>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p>v\u00a0 <strong>Wishes<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>That journalism can be passionate again.<\/li>\n<li>Curious, courageous, and compassionate.<\/li>\n<li>Today\u2019s working journalists provide a bridge and pathway to future generations.<\/li>\n<li>Play to journalism\u2019s strengths: depth, context, perspective.<\/li>\n<li>Journalism becomes more interactive.<\/li>\n<li>More diverse voices.<\/li>\n<li>Supports the telling of tough stories.<\/li>\n<li>Be prouder of itself.<\/li>\n<li>Collaboration makes journalism stronger and more fun.<\/li>\n<li>Be bolder, willing to try something different.<\/li>\n<li>Organizations know they are contributing.<\/li>\n<li>Portray people overcoming barriers and understanding each other.<\/li>\n<li>Survival; solution-oriented, contextual storytelling.<\/li>\n<li>More conversations around sustainability, peace-making, bridge-building.<\/li>\n<li>Vehicle for intimate public discourse.<\/li>\n<li>Lift up complex interrelatedness of issues \u2013 getting to values.<\/li>\n<li>Increased grassroots journalism.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>v\u00a0 <strong>Essence of Journalism<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Desire to challenge power and connect the dots in a complex world.<\/li>\n<li>Connection to public life\/clarifying stakes and choices.<\/li>\n<li>Curiosity.<\/li>\n<li>News sense.<\/li>\n<li>Pulling back the covers.<\/li>\n<li>Depth, context, perspective.<\/li>\n<li>Stories that help individuals reflect on the opportunities and challenges in their personal lives, family, community, and the larger world.<\/li>\n<li>Information with integrity.<\/li>\n<li>Pursuit of the truth, both on part of reporter and audience.<\/li>\n<li>Identifying all points of view in the essential data of the story.<\/li>\n<li>Being a community storyteller.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>How might we learn from those who keep and translate story?<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>How might we impact a larger\/more accurate rendering of<\/em>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Whole-story news<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Deeper news?<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>How do stories transform communities?<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Fetzer Story Group<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>What\u2019s the role of media in helping us pay attention?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Cole Campbell<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Collaboration is the wave of the future: among journalists, between journalists and audience.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Matt Thompson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Storytelling is part of human DNA and journalists are one of society\u2019s storytellers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jane Ellen Stevens<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>When you use media that get outside old structures, something amazing can change.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kim Spencer<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout the room, charts with summaries and quotes from the pre-meeting appreciative \u00a0interviews were displayed: v\u00a0 Wishes That journalism can be passionate again. 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