{"id":58,"date":"2014-03-05T19:52:34","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T19:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/memphis\/memphis-summary\/"},"modified":"2019-12-10T23:24:50","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T23:24:50","slug":"memphis-summary","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/memphis\/memphis-summary\/","title":{"rendered":"Memphis-summary"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;Memphis has always been a place where cultures come together to have a wreck; black and white, rural and urban, poor and rich. The music in Memphis is more than a soundtrack to these confrontations. It is the document of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>It Came from Memphis, a book by Robert Gordon, Peter Guralnick about the Memphis music scene<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr \/>\n<p>On Jan. 11 and 12, 2007 some 40 journalists, educators, and media reformers from print, broadcast and new media, both mainstream and independent, came together to consider the intersection of journalism and media reform.<\/p>\n<p>Commitment to the essential role of journalism for a strong democracy, increased optimism, and a sense of renewal and fellowship emerged as the gathering\u2019s common ground.<\/p>\n<p>The session was co-convened by Journalism that Matters and the Media Giraffe Project, with hosts Chris Peck, Geneva Overholser, and Bill Densmore &#8212; and supported by facilitators Peggy Holman and Stephen Silha. The participant mix roughly included: 40% print, 20% broadcast, 20% new media, 15% educators, 10% media reformers, 10% other, with 75% hailing from the mainstream.<\/p>\n<p>Following a round of introductions, we were hosted to a home-cooked Southern dinner by Chris Peck and his wife, Kate Duignan \u2013 no small feat to feed this crowd! Once well wined and dined, we used a \u201cSamoan Circle\u201d \u2013 a conversation among the whole witnessed by all as people flowed in and out of four chairs in the center of the packed living room. Heated at times, this opening exploration of what is emerging in the new media landscape set the stage for opening the space the next day to explore: \u201cGiven we are all in this together, what\u2019s possible now<\/p>\n<h4>Topics of Friday\u2019s Open Space included:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/memphis\/new-forms-of-ownership\/\">How do we develop a new breed of media owners?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/memphis\/building-bridges\/\">Building Bridges between MSM and Digital New Media<\/a><\/li>\n<li>What role should journalists play in media literacy and citizen engagement?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/memphis\/Memphis-civic-engagement\">Civic Engagement and Public Deliberation<\/a><\/li>\n<li>How can journalists form a practical partnership with public educators to foster youth civic engagement?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/memphis\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=202&amp;action=edit\">How does journalism treat regional issues?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Other topics posted and combined with those above:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How can we support\/foster good economic models to support news\/journalism in the public interest?<\/li>\n<li>What does it mean for \u201cnews\u201d if the web is a tool for action?<\/li>\n<li>Citizen or working journalist \u2013 what\u2019s the difference and why should we care?<\/li>\n<li>Does USA Today suck? Why is it in every hotel in America and what does that say about public attitudes?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/memphis\/memphis-using-the-news-want-or-need\/\">How can we better understand what people want\u2014not just what we think they need?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>End-of-day themes<\/h4>\n<p>At the end of the day, people gathered in groups of four to five to coach each other in pursuing their own next steps. Among the themes that emerged from the gathering were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An interest in the question: What does journalism look like when that\u2019s all that\u2019s left?<\/li>\n<li>An exploration of a new role for journalists \u2013 as conveners of conversations<\/li>\n<li>Creating an open source template to turn a news organization into a public trust in any community<\/li>\n<li>The realization that the newsroom is leaving the building<\/li>\n<li>Like the music from Memphis, mainstream and alternative journalism are on intersecting paths \u2013 with the same creative potential<\/li>\n<li>Several very personal projects \u2013 ranging from a book and blog on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and its various permutations, to a website on an experimental filmmaker\/poet, to a series of roundtables on media credibility \u2013 were described and enumerated.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/memphis\/Coaching-session-notes\">COACHING SESSION NOTES<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/memphis\/Memphis-posters\">POSTER SAYINGS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chris Peck summed up the day describing three paths and two bridges:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One path is the reform of legacy media from within. A second path is a new economic model in which journalism is a public trust. The third route is the stand-alone journalist \u2013 one who is honorable, seeks the truth, and does it on her or his own \u2013 for example, Glenn Reynolds, at www.instaPundit.com. In addition, there has to be a bridge for the legacy media people to understand the mindset and tools of the digital world, overcoming fear, contempt, lack of understanding. The bridge goes the other way as well &#8211; if you get into the journalistic world you have to be credible, accountable, understandable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Some reflections on the experience by David Zeeck, executive editor of the Tacoma News Tribute and president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, are at:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenewstribune.com\/news\/columnists\/zeeck\/story\/6323222p-5512332c.html\">http:\/\/www.thenewstribune.com\/news\/columnists\/zeeck\/story\/6323222p-5512332c.html<\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Next gathering Aug. 7-8, Washington, D.C.<\/h4>\n<p>The next gathering, focused on the question \u201cWhat does journalism look like when that\u2019s all that\u2019s left? and its implications to curriculum for media literacy, current and aspiring journalists is in the planning. Planned to be held as an opener to the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication conference in Washington, D.C., the dates are August 7 and 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Memphis has always been a place where cultures come together to have a wreck; black and white, rural and urban, poor and rich. The music in Memphis is more than a soundtrack to these confrontations. 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