These are my real-time notes from the session we just finished on "committing journalism." I'll add and expand later -- and I hope others at the session will contribute via their own blogs or here. If you post something on the session, the tags are CommittingJournalism and BlogNashville. Josh Hallett live blogged the session. Update: K.Paul mentions that this is sparse. These were the notes I posted on the screen while I was leading the session so it's closer to a collection of bullet points than a live blog. Frank Paynter writes up some highlights.
Journalism
is an activity
-- can be verified
-- can be trusted
-- transparency
-- who, background
Journalism is the presentation of news in an organized fashion
deal with, credible<
Can
be in the form of an opinion column -- with facts
Lash:
The lost art of political argument
Decline of political process with rose of professional
journalism
Struggle between argument and myth of objectivity
Presenting observations as a journalist
History: professional journalism
Jeff brown -- presentation of news and events in an
organizaed fashion supported by facst and indepdenent verification balanced by
editorial review
Journalism -- popular presentation of information
Pulse: Live blogged mayoral election
How blogging has changed what we do:
-- sources
-- experts
-- blogging -- sources available at any given time, makes
them have to think
blogs at the root are a technology
Journalism --
Fact
Opinion journalism
Couldn't be friends with people you're writing about
Uncovering hypocrisy
Lot of chumminess -- friend of mine
Pre-telegraph: Very hard to get basic facts
Internet has accelerated that process
Not only available but overwhelming
Context to information
Brands add instant credibility
Opp to have information provided context
deconstruction
From the SPJ Code of Ethics:
Seek Truth & Report It
Minimize Harm
Act Independently
Be Accountable
John Jay Hooker
Most important thing that's happened in democracy
Journalism is a form of communication -- no more, no less
It is the backbone of democracy, the key part of the first
amendment
Our ultimate ability to protect ourselves against the
government
Exposure of malfeasance
The first essential to journalism
Most imp thing is a sense of relevance
To be able to distinguish between the ache in your finger and
ache in your heart
Ability to say something
The opportunity to blog is like a gift from g-d, the ultimate
aspect of freedom
We are journalists to the extent you want to be
Better journalism --
I know bad j when I see it
Obligation to reach beyond usual suspects?
Get out of the echo chamber
TRANSPARENCY
How far do you go with transparency?
Cynicism
Filling in the gaps
Expand coverage
Encourage community interaction
JJH -- grade your own journalism …
Art is art
Sources you choose
Chris Nolan --
It's not doing journalism or committing journalism -- it's
reporting
Your loyalty is to the reader and the story
Unambiguous bases (foundation)
What you add to that is journalism
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Opens, not closes
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Trust
Nashville's talking --
Hoder --
Filling the gap between the local media in Iran, mainly in
Persian, and international media
Hoder.com -- blogs in two languages
Three functions:
presenting facts or
reporting --MSM
Challenging
Creating public debate (highest level?)
Web logs performing functions msm doesn't do -challenging and
creating debates
Middleware -- if it works well you don't hear about it --
blogging host system at usc, entire campus community
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