{"id":485,"date":"2013-04-04T16:31:15","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T23:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/newjournalism\/?page_id=485"},"modified":"2013-04-04T16:31:15","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T23:31:15","slug":"drafting-principles-and-practices","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/newjournalism\/drafting-principles-and-practices\/","title":{"rendered":"Drafting Principles and Practices for a Healthy News &amp; Information Ecosystem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What we did<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>At the close of day 2, participants spent a few minutes reflecting on their experience of the last two days and did some writing about what had emerged for them as essential to a healthy news and information ecosystem.\u00a0 They shared their thoughts in groups of three and identified 1-3 statements that named key ideas.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Once the statements were shared with the whole group, people literally took a stand by moving to a statement. That resulted in three clusters of statements.\u00a0 The first cluster was the most frequently selected.\u00a0 The second cluster garnered some people.\u00a0 The last cluster is statements that no one selected .<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Most selected statements<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nourishing community engagement is journalism&#8217;s bedrock purpose.<\/li>\n<li>We are committed to putting engagement at the center of our work.<\/li>\n<li>We choose to produce diverse, healthy, fresh news that nurtures community to conversation or action.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Selected<\/strong> <strong>Statements<\/strong> <strong>that were also selected<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We collaborate in the interest of our communities.<\/li>\n<li>Community matters; professionals matter.<\/li>\n<li>We foster collaboration among the community of journalists covering local issues.<\/li>\n<li>We will be open minded in pursuing truth despite personal beliefs or existing societal story lines including dissemination of existing story lines and a willingness to be surprised and dig deeper.<\/li>\n<li>As we head home, we are continuing the conversation together on JTM&#8217;s new platform by creating opportunities to participate in online live meetings, web forums and a collective question bank to tap into our synergistic energy and shape the future of our news ecology.<\/li>\n<li>Readers are first citizens and community members, then consumers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Statements not selected<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We are mapping our news ecosystem<\/li>\n<li>A health news ecology is engaged and collaborative.<\/li>\n<li>Make curiosity endure.<\/li>\n<li>Train anyone who will listen.<\/li>\n<li>We encourage media practictioners who will engage themselves in all segments of their communities (however defined) in varied ways to strengthen the fabrics of those communities and a democratic society of making informed decisions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What we did At the close of day 2, participants spent a few minutes reflecting on their experience of the last two days and did some writing about what had emerged for them as essential to a healthy news and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/newjournalism\/drafting-principles-and-practices\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-485","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/newjournalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/newjournalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/newjournalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/newjournalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/newjournalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/newjournalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/newjournalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}