Wunderbarer Artikel von Tim Porter:

Given the arrival of technologies that enable all citizens - not just the newspaper - to participate in coverage of the community, the concept of public journalism is more relevant today than ever.

Journalism is embracing total community coverage with or without the help of newspapers. They have everything to gain by continuing their march toward diversity and accelerating (or in many cases, simply initiating) innovations in coverage. If they don't, and if they maintain their isolationism and their belief that community coverage depends on the color of the newsroom, they are in danger of their most valuable commodity - relevance to the community.....We in journalism and in the academy have been playing the wrong game, the game of separation from our own society.

We complain because “they” don’t read what we write, appreciate what we teach, understand the fundamentals of our trade and our society – but we complain at arms’ length, from on high, from the sidelines.
Don't Reflect the Community, Be the Community [Via: First Draft by Tim Porter]

Im Artikel wird unter anderem auch der Speech von Hodding Carter, president der Knight Foundation, erwähnt, der äusserst lesenswert ist: Giving new life to a free society
[Via: ASNE - American Society of Newspaper Editors ]