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Part 6: Critique & launching point, where now, where next?

03.12.2009 · Posted in Journalists, News, Readers, Web

CRITIQUE & LAUNCHING POINT

Throughout the two-day think tank, many important themes continued to rise to the surface: community journalism, user customization, paperless/mobile, engaging/fun content. Below, I want to describe some of the observations I made about the process and the people as well as briefly critique each prototype. Then make some kind of inspirational statement about ...

Part 4: Group 2 prototype, an incentive for democracy

03.11.2009 · Posted in Citizen journalism, News, think tank, Web

GROUP 2 PROTOTYPE

The concept

This group wanted to develop a point system on a news website. For every activity users do, they receive points. People receive more or less points depending on their level of engagement. For example, commenting on a story nets maybe 2 points, but writing your own story is worth 10. The site basically ...

Part 2: Discoveries and highlights, where journalists and IDEO intersect

03.11.2009 · Posted in think tank

DISCOVERIES AND HIGHLIGHTS

How might we?

The rest of the day was spent identifying a series of problems in journalism. I unfortunately can only speak for my group but I think these were important points:
  • News is horribly fragmented/decentralized
  • Journalists produce for journalists because there is no reliable system of feedback from readers
  • If readers need to learn "media literacy" ...

The future newsroom?

10.07.2008 · Posted in Journalists, News, Web

If you blow up everything you think is real and start over from scratch based on the needs of the community and tools of the newsroom, I think a newsroom could look like this (below). The idea came from a class Donica and I are brainstorming about. We want to do something that’s similar to ...