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Part 6: Critique & launching point, where now, where next?
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
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
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" ...
It’s all about the process
Or one Knight Foundation News Challenge application. This is what we’ve been working on for the last month or more. Or rather what Annie and David Calvert started talking about two years ago and I joined recently and we wrote up last night. Annie Flanzraich tells us how it started: Two years ago David and I were ...
The future newsroom?
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 ...