Presentation for the International Symposium

1. Participatory
Journalism
“How the old passive audience of
mass media is becoming the new
active communities of online media.”

2. Some Good Company.....

3. AT MY VERY BEST

4. What do we mean
when we say.....
“Participation”
Cliffs Notes: It means doing things together.....

5. Transparency
• “For well-informed participation to
occur, it is argued that some
version of transparency, e.g.
radical transparency, is necessary,
but not sufficient.”

6. Necessary, not sufficient
• Necessary: Needed. Won’t work without
it. Better have it, etc.
• It isn’t “sufficient.” - Having
transparency alone won’t cut it.
Being a mammal is necc. to be a human, but not sufficient.

7. Journalism is a process - not a product
• Newspapers are a product
• News content is a product
• Journalism is a series of things you do:
Collect, filter, distribute information

8. Freelancing 30 years ago
• Not that different today.
• It is an opaque process

9. Spot.Us and Freelancing
• Freelancers pitching the world

10. Reporting Happens in Public
• The process of writing this crowd-funded story and of blogging
about it is going to be a new experience for me. The old method
of writing a story was to get approval from your editor, and then
the story was something of a secret except for those who needed
to know. When you were done, you published your story and you
wowed the city with it, and made your competitors at other Seattle
daily newspapers curse that they hadn't thought of it first. (Or, at
least that was the fantasy that we journalists had.)
• So what's the process now? It's developing, that's for sure. I would
be very interested in hearing suggestions for aspects of the story
to cover, or things you'd be interested in reading in the blog.

11. What about Scoops!
• We need to hold onto them. We are
clinging to them for dear life.
• Web radical response
• Conservative response

12. What’s the public perspective?
• Public is empowered.
• Why should editors have all the fun?
• Insight into freelancing (usually
overlooked)

13. Participation has many forms
• Contribute
• Money (Spot.Us)
• Time (Spot.Us)
• Resources
• Attention (Soon on Spot.Us)
• Expertise
• Etc

14. Journalism
• Anyone can do it. People who do it
everyday are better at it. They should
share their methods.