{"id":69,"date":"2017-02-14T11:01:20","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T19:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/pdxengage17\/?p=69"},"modified":"2017-02-14T11:02:11","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T19:02:11","slug":"more-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/pdxengage17\/2017\/02\/14\/more-information\/","title":{"rendered":"More Information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re building on the October 2015 \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/experienceengagement\/\" target=\"_blank\">Experience Engagement: How communities and journalism can thrive together<\/a>,\u201d that Agora Journalism Center and Journalism That Matters co-hosted. The three-day convening generated a<a href=\"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/experienceengagement\/\">\u00a0breakthrough vision<\/a>\u00a0for a civic communications ecosystem. It also:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Produced<a href=\"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/experienceengagementsessionnotes\/2016\/01\/08\/table-of-contents\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0illuminating reports<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Created a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/experienceengagement\/895806823882579\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0network of practitioners<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Initiated a<a href=\"http:\/\/www.knightfoundation.org\/articles\/how-a-new-platform-will-develop-a-more-participatory-process-for-journalism\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0platform to enhance collaboration<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Attracted funding for a new wave of activity<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Our goal is to help people have, create and share the news, information and connection they need to make the best possible decisions for their lives and their communities.<\/p>\n<p>Some questions we will explore together:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How do we develop a new sense of values and ethics that makes engagement viable and productive for communities and journalists?<\/li>\n<li>How do we build trust, credibility and relationships in the age of engagement?<\/li>\n<li>How can communities and journalists not just trust, but rely on each other?<\/li>\n<li>How can temporary relationships built around a project or story be prolonged into lasting relationships, particularly when they \u00a0connect across race, class, and other divides? \u00a0How can we build community capacity for telling their own stories?<\/li>\n<li>How can communities have more complete storytelling about civic life?<\/li>\n<li>How can people who are not journalists serve as connectors within communities and with media?<\/li>\n<li>How can news and information gaps be filled within communities, as well as by media?<\/li>\n<li>How can journalists engage more fully in in civic life, while maintaining credibility and trust?<\/li>\n<li>What are the best tools and techniques for community connection?<\/li>\n<li>Who are the exemplars and what can others learn from them?<\/li>\n<li>What is journalism in an interdependent, interactive world?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These questions seem particularly relevant in the aftermath of the presidential election, including concerns that media haven\u2019t been listening thoughtfully to all communities. We welcome your suggestions for other questions to address.<\/p>\n<p>Our aim in 2017:\u00a0<i>Together, we\u2019ll generate actionable tools, illuminate promising practices and develop strategies for helping communities have the news, information and connection they need to create thriving, healthy, inclusive communities.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Join us in a lively and productive exchange around challenging questions with a diverse group of peers who care about storytelling with civic impact \u2014 the capacity to address shared public challenges.<\/p>\n<p>Participants will create shared resources and vocabulary to engage diverse participants with civic life, strengthening communities by building new relationships among informed, engaged citizens and the media that serve them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re building on the October 2015 \u201cExperience Engagement: How communities and journalism can thrive together,\u201d that Agora Journalism Center and Journalism That Matters co-hosted. The three-day convening generated a\u00a0breakthrough vision\u00a0for a civic communications ecosystem. It also: Produced\u00a0illuminating reports Created a\u00a0network of practitioners Initiated a\u00a0platform to enhance collaboration Attracted funding for a new wave of activity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conference-info"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/pdxengage17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/pdxengage17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/pdxengage17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/pdxengage17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/pdxengage17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/pdxengage17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/pdxengage17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions\/71"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/pdxengage17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/pdxengage17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/pdxengage17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}