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W ED NE S D A Y, A P R I L 0 7 , 2 0 1 0

Slovenian Conference on Innovation
Communication
I J - 7 ACA DEM I C TR A CK S I TE
Some great news from Slov enia (I added
links):

On Apr 7 , 201 0, at 1 3:08, V ioleta Bulc
wrote:

Ok.. tomorrow is a big day ... Slov enian
Conference on Innov ation
communication (one of the 4 tracks is
innov ation journalism).. we hav e 1 83
registered participants; we will also
giv e away 27 awards in different categories for InJo for
2009. Rx , V ioleta
ps; the new director of our the biggest daily newspaper
(DELO) has mentioned y esterday in his speech that the
restructuring of the newspaper will be based on innov ation
journalism principles, fresh approach and new technologies

P O S T ED B Y DA V I D NO R DFO R S A T 5: 11 P M 2 CO M M ENT S
LI NK S T O T HI S P O S T

S T A Y I N T O UC H
S UN D A Y, M A R C H 2 1 , 2 0 1 0
Subscribe to the injo m ailing list
Examples of Flavors of InJo The Injo Facebook Group
The Injo LinkedIn Group
Here are some ex amples Follow Injo on Twitter
illustrating different
ty pes of InJo, all relating
to the iPad launch. Note B L O G A R C HI V E
http://blog.innovationjournalism.org/ 1/26

that this is v ery tech-
▼ 201 0 (7 )
slanted InJo. Remember
▼ April (1 )
that InJo can also be
Slov enian Conference on
Innov ation Communication

► March (2)
► February (1 )
► January (3)

► 2009 (23)
► 2008 (23)
► 2007 (44)
social/cultural/business-oriented. Innov ation is the introduction
of nov elties, the process of transforming ideas into new v alue in ► 2006 (21 )
society . Technology is an enabler, and sometimes - but far from
alway s - the key driv er of innov ation.
I J - X T HE C O NFER ENC ES O N
I NNO V A T I O N J O UR NA L I S M
Here goes:
IJ-6 The Six th Conference on
1 . I nJo cov ering the innov ation release. This story by Chris Innov ation Journalism 2008
Foresman in arstechnica is close to a product rev iew, only it IJ-5 The Fifth Conference on
comes before the release, in the v ery last part of the innov ation Innov ation Journalism 2008
process, speculating on the product, the release and how it will IJ-4 The Fourth Conference on
affect Apple: Innov ation Journalism 2007
IJ-3
2. InJo cov ering the ability to innov ate, and the future 2006:Program/Abstracts/Bios
directions. The story by Seth Weintraub in ComputerWorld Blogs: IJ-3 2006: Proceedings
Apple hires Richard De V aul - specialist on wearable computers IJ-2
(e.g. computers embedded in clothes) - as "Senior Prototy pe 2005:Program/Abstracts/Bios
Engineer". By interv iewing De V aul on his past we get a picture of IJ-2 2005: Papers
Apple's possible future. The story gets traction from the iPad IJ-1 2004:Program/Abstracts/Bios
launch - as we are waiting for the iPad to come, we get curious
IJ-1 2004: Papers
about what may come after that.

3. InJo speculating on the future - colum nist sty le. Here is P UB LI C A T I O NS
one of my fav orites - Dav id Carnoy /CNET published this fictitious
INNOVAT ION JOURNALI SM
dialogue between Amazon's Jeff Bezos and Apple's Stev e Jobs
PUBLICAT ION SERIES ISSN
upon the launch of the Kindle. It was a critical rev iew of the design
1 549-9049
of the Kindle (published in the rev iews section), but at a same time
The Injo Doer: Stories by Injo
an early v isionary speculation of the iPad.
Fellows published by hosting
newsrooms
P O S T ED B Y DA V I D NO R DFO R S A T 4: 49 A M 0 CO M M ENT S

A B O UT

The V INNOV A-Stanford Research
S UN D A Y, M A R C H 1 4 , 2 0 1 0 Center of Innov ation Journalism
Nokia chairman delivers Finnish InJo prize Innov ation Journalism in
Wikipedia
The chairman of Nokia and Roy al Dutch Shell, Jorma Ollila, will
About Innov ation Journalism and

About Innov ation Journalism and
deliv er the Innov ation Cry stal prize awarded for a particularly
Innov ation Journalism
well-produced innov ation-related story in Helsinki, Finland on the
Fellowship Alumni list
25th of March. This is the fourth time the Finnish Society for
Innov ation Journalism (www.finjo.fi) arranges the competition
that this y ear has attracted a record number of nominations. The
A FFI LI A T ED L I NK S : B LO G S &
ev ent also marks a new momentum for Finjo that under its new C O NT I NO US L Y UP D A T ED S I T E
chairman, Carl-Gustav Linden, a 2008 participant in the
Innov ation Journalism Official Site
Innov ation Journalism program at Stanford, is raising its profile in
Innov ation Journalism in Slov enia
the debate on the future of this country with just ov er fiv e million
Innov ation Journalism in Finland
inhabitants.
European Journalism Center

Finland is profiled as the world´s first country that implemented Jan Sandred's InJo Blog
an Innov ation Policy Program based on R&D and knowledge, as V ioleta Bulc (V ibacom) Blog
early as 1 990. Finjo, founded three y ears ago, is another first; so
far the only association in the world formally committed to
LI NKS :
Innov ation Journalism, that is journalism about innov ation and
innov ations in journalism. The word innov ation is somewhat Finnish National InJo Fellowhip
tainted by hy pe and rhetoric. Program

“I think it´s easier to get the message through if we talk about
renewal processes or social change. I also believ e that the deep CO NT R I B UT O R S

recession Finland and parts of the world is in right now makes the alisonmurdock
issue more urgent and people more responsiv e. It’s a sort of Dav id Nordfors
Finland 2.0 discourse”, say s Carl-Gustav Linden who is a business
writer and researcher at Univ ersity of Helsinki.

Finjo brings a broad v ariety of ex perts together –journalists,
communication specialists, researchers, bureaucrats and business
people for sharing thoughts on topics v ary ing from the effects of
social media to the R&D policy of the European Union. Openness is
may be one of the strongest assets of Finland and the rest of the
Nordic countries, where Linux and My SQL are just two ex amples
of where open and v oluntary collaboration can lead.

“Ev en though Finland has been ahead of the rest in forming
innov ation policy there is a need for politicization and
democratization and I believ e Finjo is be just the right v enue for
these discussions”, say s Carl-Gustav Linden.

T HUR S D A Y, F EB R UA R Y 1 1 , 2 0 1 0

IJ-7 Academic Track - Call For Papers

IJ-7 The Seventh Conference on Innovation
Journalism
Stanford University, Stanford CA


June 7-9, 2010
IJ-7 The Seventh Conference on Innovation Journalism is
a venue for researchers from many disciplines and
institutions to present work and ideas relating to the
interplay of journalism and other forms of communication
in innovation ecosystems. IJ-7 is also a meeting place for
researchers and journalism professionals to discuss the
best ways of covering innovation in the news, the business
of doing that work, and how innovation journalism
interacts with society. The conference welcomes a varied
set of participants: Working journalists, policy-makers in
journalism and innovation, academic researchers, faculty
and research students in related areas of commerce,
communication and journalism, and other professionals
connected to the media industry.
The Conference is hosted at Stanford University under
the auspices of the Vinnova Stanford Research Center on
Innovation Journalism. The Innovation Journalism Center
welcomes faculty and graduate student submissions on all
topics related to communication and innovation. The
Program Committee specifically welcomes strong
theoretical and empirical contributions without regard to
particular methodological approach, professional context
(including journalism, advertising, public relations,
strategy and innovation, and the standard social science
disciplines) and overall orientation of the research
(theoretical, descriptive, philosophical, pedagogical,
methodological or practical).
“The Prinjos” –The Prizes for Best Innovation
Journalism Paper
The best papers in each of the following three categories
will receive a recognition for “Best Paper at the
Innovation Journalism Conference at Stanford 2010”:
1. The Grand Prinjo: best conference paper among all
submissions.
2. The Junior Prinjo: best paper submitted by graduate
students.
3. The Journalist Prinjo: best paper submitted by
practitioners.

Manuscript Submission
Authors may submit paper proposals or full papers.
Paper Proposal – 500-700 words. Open until April 1, 2010
Full Paper – max 25 pages excluding bibliography and
appendices. Open until June 1, 2010.


Please make the submission documents anonymous –
author(s) identity must not be displayed. Please provide a
separate page with paper title and an abstract of no more
than 75 words; write name, affiliation and all contact
information of the author(s) on that page with the
abstract. Format should be Word, citations in Harvard
Style. Paper and abstract must be sent as attachments in
one email to
IJ7-mogensen@stanford.edu
SUBMISSION OF PAPER PROPOSALS
If you want to test if your idea for a paper is welcomed by
the Program Committee before undertaking the work of
producing a paper, submit a paper proposal by April 1 and
indicate that you would like to submit a complete paper. If
our reviewers favor your proposal, you will receive an
invitation to submit a paper before June 1. Your full paper
will then be reviewed and given the status of either
‘reviewed paper’ or ‘paper in progress’ at the Conference.
SUBMISSION OF FULL PAPERS
You may submit a paper directly, without first submitting
a proposal. Your paper may be accepted as a ‘reviewed
paper’, ‘paper in progress’, or – if it does not meet the
criteria of the conference – ‘rejected’. Please submit full
papers to IJ7-mogensen@STANFORD.edu any time
before June 1, 2010.
The Review Process
All papers will undergo blind peer review. The review
process is humane, including reasonable turnaround time
on submissions and firm but polite critique. Papers are
reviewed in the order they are received and authors will
receive answers as soon as the paper has been evaluated.
Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their
papers at the Innovation Journalism Conference at
Stanford University. Authors of rejected full papers are
invited to participate in the conference without presenting
their work. No conference fee is collected.
.
Main themes of IJ-7 Academic Track:
— How journalism and innovation interact.
— How journalism can cover innovation processes and
innovation ecosystems.
— Towards a systems view: Public attention and
attention work in innovation communication
ecosystems, the stakeholders and audiences, and the
interaction between these elements.
Examples of research topics of interest:
— Professional norms, values, codes of ethics and


principles of innovation journalism.
— How newsrooms and other professional organizations
affect the coverage of innovation.
— Democracy and governance: The role of journalism in
the innovation economy.
— Concept of attention work, the professional generation
and brokering of attention.
— Concept of innovation communication systems; the
flow of attention in innovation systems.
— How innovation processes and innovation ecosystems
interact with public attention, with news media as an
actor.
— Interdependencies between journalism and other
actors in the innovation system.
— The roles of reputation and trust in the innovation
ecosystem.
— Business Models for innovation journalism.
— Models of innovation and media, including firm,
industry and economy-wide innovation systems.
— Governance, accountability and innovation in and by
journalists and media actors.
— State of the art as well as theory and practice in the
teaching of innovation journalism.
— Innovation journalism and feminism.
Information about the conference and accepted papers
will be posted on:
http://www.innov ationjournalism.org , the general InJo site, and
the forthcoming conference sites

http://ij7 .innov ationjournalism.org alias http://ij7 .stanford.edu

Program Committee
IJ-7 Chair: David Nordfors, Executive Director,
VINNOVA-Stanford Research Center of Innovation
Journalism.
IJ-7 Academic Track Chair: Kirsten Mogensen, Visiting
InJo Researcher, Stanford University and Associate
Professor, Roskilde University.
Turo Uskali, University of Jyväskylä, Finland and Senior
Research Scholar. VINNOVA Stanford Center.
Marc Ventresca, University Lecturer in Strategy, Saïd
Business School, University of Oxford; Senior Research
Scholar, VINNOVA Stanford Center; and Research
Faculty, Global Public Policy, Naval Postgraduate School
Doctoral Student Bettina Maisch, Institute for Media and
Communication Management at University of St.Gallen
andVisiting Researcher, Center for Design Research at
Stanford
Program Committee Contact:


Professor Kirsten Mogensen: kirstenm@stanford.edu
Visiting Innovation Journalism Researcher
Vinnova-Stanford Research Center of Innovation
Journalism, Stanford University.

S A T UR D A Y, J A NUA R Y 3 0 , 2 0 1 0

InJo TV Series Wins "Brand of the Year"
InJo is a concept for successful journalism. I hav e been say ing it
since I coined the concept, and I hav e often had to argue for my
case.

SAMAA TV in Pakistan
embraced the Innov ation
Journalism journalism
concept and started the series
"INNOV ATION" in 2009. That
InJo series has now been
awarded "Brand of the Y ear",
beating +500 innov ation
brands from all industries,
winning both the consumer
v ote and the ex pert panel ranking. It's the first time a journalistic
product wins the award. On top of that, SAMAA won the Corporate
Social Responsibility award, an achiev ement SAMAA say s
happened due to its InJo approach.

Congratulations to Amir Jahangir, CEO of SAMAA TV , Shahray
Zariff, Ex ecutiv e Producer of the INNOV ATION series, and Fatima
Akhtar, anchor and team member of the show, who will be an InJo
Fellow 201 0 at Stanford.

SAMAA's success tells us some things:
1. INJO IS POPULAR JOURNALISM
2. INJO CAN BE CENT RAL I N INNOVAT ION SY ST EMS
3. INJO WORKS IN EMERGING ECONOMI ES

The Stanford news release is here below, followed by the SAMAA
release. Here is an introductory v ideo of the award winning
INNOV ATION InJo TV series (in English):



ST ANFORD UNIVERSI T Y NEWS SERVICE
Jan 26 201 0.
(Here is the news release on Stanford's news web. Here is a copy in
PDF)

Collaboration between Stanford
Innovation Journalism Center and a
Pakistani TV station honored
The award-winning program "Innovation" is dedicated to
identifying innovation in all aspects of Pakistani life, and has
covered issues ranging from alternative energy to mobile
banking.

BY AIMEE MILES

A collaborativ e effort between the V innov a Stanford Research
Center of Innov ation Journalism and a Pakistani telev ision
station, SAMAA TV , is receiv ing an award for its role in bringing
local issues of innov ativ e dev elopment to the forefront of public
awareness in Pakistan.

"Innov ation," a telev ision program featured on SAMAA, was
named "Brand of the Y ear 2009" in a category recognizing
products and serv ices that sharpen public focus on processes of
innov ation and competitiv eness in Pakistan. The series beat out
more than 500 competitors from v arious industries in a
nationwide judging that included a consumer surv ey and an
ex pert panel analy sis. Pakistani Prime Minister Y ousaf Raza Gilani
is scheduled to present the award in February .



The idea for the
telev ision series was
conceiv ed by the CEO
of SAMAA TV , Amir
Jahangir, who sits on
an adv isory board for
the Innov ation
Journalism Center
(also known as the "InJo" Center) at Stanford. The
series is dedicated to identify ing innov ation in all aspects of
Pakistani life, and has cov ered issues ranging from alternativ e
energy to mobile banking.

"[The Pakistanis] hav e created something of theirs with
information and adv ice from us that has created a new model of
media programming there that adds something to traditional
journalism," said Dav id Nordfors, founding ex ecutiv e director of
the InJo Center. "It's a y oung, progressiv e, innov ativ e and
politically moderate TV company ."

"[Jahangir] decided that SAMAA should start an Innov ation
Journalism TV series, that shouldn't be only about gadgets or only
about business or technology , but look at how business,
technology , and politics interact, about how innov ation happens,
and identify different actors in the ecosy stem and get the whole
picture. SAMAA's producer Shahray Zariff and her team did an
ex cellent job in setting that up."

Nordfors identified the collaboration as a promising ex ample of
positiv e U.S.-Pakistani relations.

Four Pakistani journalists come to Stanford each y ear as InJo
fellows, funded by the United States Agency for International
Dev elopment (USAID). The objectiv e of the fellowship is to train
international journalists to cov er the innov ation economy and
network with U.S. media outlets. Fellows participate in workshops
and conferences at Stanford and work with newsrooms across the
nation cov ering issues relating to innov ation. Fatima Akhtar,
anchor and team member of the award-winning SAMAA series,
will begin a fiv e-month fellowship at the InJo Center in February .

"Pakistan used to be a v ery closed country — almost all journalism
in Pakistan is about Pakistan, for Pakistani people. They 'v e
actually started taking in InJo fellows from other areas of the
world as ex pert
commentators," said Nordfors. "It's v ery nice to see that it actually
turned out to be a smash hit because this is really a new creature
in Pakistani journalism."


The first innov ation journalism program started at Stanford in
2004, Nordfors said. "Our network today includes funded
innov ation journalism initiativ es in Sweden, Finland, Slov enia,
Mex ico, Pakistan, Israel and the EU — all connected to the center
at Stanford," he said.

SAMAA T V Press Release
(Here is the release on SAMAA's web, here is a copy in PDF)

"INNOVATION" receives BRAND OF
THE YEAR, 2009 Award
Upadated on: 27 Jan 1 0 07 :40 AM

Islamabad, 25th January – “Innov ation,” a telev ision program
featured on SAMAA TV , one of Pakistan’s leading Urdu news
channels has been named “Brand of the Y ear 2009” in a category
recognizing products and serv ices that sharpen public focus on
processes of innov ation and competitiv eness in Pakistan.

The program, a joint collaboration between the V innov a-Stanford
Research Center of Innov ation Journalism (INJO) at Stanford
Univ ersity and SAMAA TV beat out more than 500 other
competitors from v arious industries in a nationwide consumer
surv ey and an ex pert panel analy sis. SAMAA will be receiv ing the
award by Prime Minister Mr. Y ousaf Raza Gilani in an ev ent
scheduled in February .
The award is being giv en to SAMAA for launching Pakistan’s first
dedicated program on innov ation and for establishing the genre as
an important journalistic beat in Pakistan. The Program has been
recognized as the key source through which the journalistic
cov erage of innov ation processes and ecosy stems in Pakistan has
been integrated into the national socio-economic dev elopment
plan. The program has also been applauded for play ing a leading
role in bringing local issues of innov ativ e dev elopment to the
forefront of public awareness in Pakistan.

Speaking to Amir Jahangir, Chief Ex ecutiv e Officer of SAMAA TV ,
he said “The program success is based on hard work and a great
network of INJO fellows across the world, who through their
ex pertise has been adv ising on the program content, sharing
research, commenting on innov ation topics and prov iding
solutions through their input and v iews. Due to this collaboration,
the content of our program has been acknowledged as being
credible, containing relev ant issues and making efforts in bringing
together the relev ant stakeholders of each industry to find
innov ativ e measures to cater the society needs”.


Mr. Jahangir further said that “The global dev elopment has made
our world smaller and our communication more effectiv e. We
want to bring innov ation to the homes of ev ery Pakistani citizen,
so that their awareness and ability to be innov ativ e is nurtured.
Our future lies in the hands of innov ation and for that we need to
prepare a workforce which not only knows how to be innov ativ e
but also how to link it to the economic dev elopment”.

Amir Jahangir also shared that SAMAA is the only media channel
in Pakistan, which has been recognized both national as well as
internationally for being a responsible business operator using
innov ation journalism techniques as part of business strategy .
This acknowledgement was giv en to SAMAA by the Asian Forum
for Corporate Social Responsibility , who awarded SA MAA the
Asian CSR Ex cellence Award 2009 as the only channel in Asia, for
being a responsible business operator creating v alue for its
v iewers and empowering marginalized communities for a better
tomorrow. SAMAA has also recently won the National CSR
Ex cellence Award 2009, which no channel has receiv ed so far.

Dr. Dav id Nordfors, Co-Founder and Ex ecutiv e Director of the
V INNOV A-Stanford Research Center of Innov ation Journalism
coined the term “Innov ation Journalism” in 2003. Dr. Nordfors
said that “SAMAA has prov en the v iability for the Innov ation
Journalism as a genre in Pakistan, and emerging economies. This
award is not alone a milestone for SAMAA TV but also for the
Innov ation Journalism Initiativ e at Stanford ”. He said that by
being the first, SAMAA TV is leading the way for other media
channels both in Pakistan as well as across the world.
Dr. Dav id Nordfors specially acknowledged Amir Jahangir, CEO
SAMAA TV for the strong leadership and commitment in bringing
innov ation to the Pakistani media. Mr. Nordfors said that Mr.
Jahangir’s strong belief in linking innov ation to economic
dev elopment would play a crucial role in creating a new
ecosy stem in the Pakistan economy .

The program series is dedicated to identify ing innov ation in all
aspects of Pakistani life, and has cov ered issues ranging from
alternativ e energy to mobile banking.
Mr. Arif Allauddin, CEO Alternativ e Energy Dev elopment Board
also appreciated SAMAA TV s program stating that “ it was the first
of its kind show which showcased how different countries are
addressing their energy needs using alternativ e energy -Thus,
giv ing the Gov ernment of Pakistan the opportunity to learn and
benefit from their ex periences and serv e as guidelines for us”. He
said that the program has been engaging InJo fellows across the
world and coming up with global solutions to local issues, which
are required more now than ev er, as Pakistan continues to face
immense challenges in prov iding quality education, primary


healthcare, energy supply and employ ment opportunities for
y outh.

The INJO program at Stanford Univ ersity focus on building the
capacity of media professionals to report on innov ation, dev elop
interaction between journalism and innov ation, including how
innov ation is changing the profession and business of journalism,
how to cov er innov ation in the news, and how journalism links
innov ation with society . Four Pakistani journalists come to
Stanford each y ear as InJo fellows. The objectiv e of the fellowship
is to train international journalists to cov er the innov ation
economy and network with US media outlets. Fellows participate
in workshops and conferences at Stanford and work with
newsrooms across the nation cov ering issues relating to
innov ation.

SAMAA TV is one of Pakistan’s leading priv ate satellite telev ision
channels, which takes pride in its fair, factual and independent
news cov erage through its on-the-hour bulletins, breaking stories,
incisiv e political analy sis and current affairs programs. The
channel is the first media channel is Pakistan to hav e established a
well-integrated Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Program as
part of it business activ ities.

The channel has also made a niche for itself through its programs
on women and y outh issues besides infotainment and sports.
SAMAA TV , launched in December 2007 has network of district
correspondents and fiv e bureaus across Pakistan along with
international stringers in the Middle East, Europe and North
America.
© SAMAA TV - 2008

W ED NE S D A Y, J A N UA R Y 1 3 , 2 0 1 0

Future Talk TV Show on The Future of Journalism
The future of journalism in light of the new electronic media. Host
Martin Wasserman interv iews Dav id Nordfors, director of the
Center for Innov ation Journalism, and Tony Deifell, director of Q
Media Labs.




F R I D A Y, J A N UA R Y 0 8 , 2 0 1 0

HOLD THE DATES 7-11 JUNE 2010. JI@ST
Conference Cluster at Stanford: IJ-7 + JTM
(T he original, alway s up-to-date, v ersion of this page is
here)

JI@ ST - A Conference Cluster about Journalism and
Innov ation:

IJ-7 : T he Sev enth Conference on Innov ation
Journalism , June 7 -9 2010
JT M - Journalism T hat Matters, June 9-11 2010

Both conferences are held at Stanford Univ ersity .

These back-to-back conferences will take a thorough look on
journalism in the innov ation economy . The conferences are open
for all ty pes of participants with an interest in journalism and
innov ation. We are looking forward to an activ e, results-oriented
discussion between people of different professions and v iews.
(More details below.)

To receiv e calls for participation and registration, sign up here
(This is not the conference registration. The registration will come
later this spring.)

I J - 7 - T HE S EV ENT H C O NFER ENC E O N I NNO V A T I O N J O UR NA LI S M



Organized by the V INNOV A-Stanford Research Center on
Innov ation Journalism at Stanford Univ ersity

Key topics:

- HOW JOURNALISM AFFECTS INNOV ATION

- HOW INNOV ATION AFFECTS JOURNALISM

- THE ABILITY OF JOURNALISM TO COV ER INNOVATION

The conference includes key notes, presentations and workshops.
We hav e a multi-stakeholder approach, welcoming all ty pes of
scholars and professionals to take part in a discussion on the role
of journalism in the innov ation economy . The participants in this
conference come from all ov er the world, due to the international
character of the program.

A large part of the conference will be organized by the Innov ation
Journalism Fellows, who begin their Fellowships at Stanford in
Feb 201 0. The Fellows this y ear c

ome from Sweden, Finland, Pakistan, Mex ico and Slov enia. Like all
earlier y ears, the conference program will emerge in March-May .

The conference is like in 2009 scheduled to present an academic
track, where researchers will present papers. All IJ-7 participants
are welcome to sit in on the research presentations.

Check out the website of our prev ious IJ-6 conference and the IJ-
6 conference academic track.

Registration will open probably in March.

Keep up to date here on the Innov ation Journalism Blog a nd the
Innovation Journalism Facebook Group

JTM - Journalism That Matters

JOURNALISM THAT MATTERS hosts conv ersations about the
emerging news ecology among the div erse ecosy stem of
journalism – reporters, editors, publishers, v ideographers,
photographers, media educators, reformers, v olunteer
journalists, and audience; from print, broadcast, and online
media, both mainstream and entrepreneurial.


It is a community of media innov ators and stakeholders that
blazes paths and builds bridges to a new news ecology . We
conv ene, connect, and inspire the div erse, engaged citizens who
are molding and leading the media of tomorrow.

Using the un-conference format, we will ex plore What do we
know and what do we want to know at the intersection of
journalism and innov ation?

Conference sessions could ex plore questions such as: Giv en the
state of the industry , WHAT’s possible now? WHO are the new
journalists? HOW are stories chosen? HOW are they told? WHAT
kind of change is productiv e? WHO can the public trust? WHAT is
the role of journalism in connecting people and community ?
WHERE can editors find qualified contributors and information
with increasingly diminished budgets? WHAT new technological
sources are reliable? WHERE is the new newsroom? WHEN are
beat blogs, twittering and social networks best utilized? WHY is
transparency so important? HOW do we maintain transparency
and accountability while protecting sources?

Check out the website of our January JTM - Re-Imagining News &
Community in the Pacific NorthWest

T HUR S D A Y, D E C E M B ER 3 1 , 2 0 0 9

Prisoners Dilemma at COP15 in Copenhagen;
Meanwhile in Mei Lin's Kitchen
(T h is blog post w a s pu blish ed
by Hu ffin g t on Post 3 1 Dec
2 009 )

On December 9, world
leaders debated global
climate in Copenhagen and
Obama was in Oslo to
accept his Nobel. I was
sharing a glass of wine with
Doug Engelbart, father of personal computing as we know it, in the
kitchen of Mei Lin Fung, Doug's long-time friend, in Palo Alto. It
was a potluck dinner, shoes off, sparing Mei Lin's floors. I sensed
links. Half a world away , people were commemorating the world's
biggest problems, preparing for gala dinners, while we toasted the
birth of perhaps the most powerful tool in human hands, sitting in
that cozy kitchen among people who had made it happen.


Doug was guest of honor. In San Francisco, on Dec 9 1 968, his
'Mother of All Demos' gav e birth to the modern PC: Doug and his
SRI team, with chief engineer Bill English, demo'ed for the first
time personal computing as we recognize it today , showing the
first computer mouse, interactiv e tex t, v ideo conferencing,
teleconferencing, email, hy pertex t and a collaborativ e real-time
editor.

While Obama was receiv ing his
Nobel, the Copenhagen Climate
Conference was becoming a giant
prisoners' dilemma. If all cut
emissions, all win. If nobody cuts,
all lose. If some cut but not others,
non-cutters win more than cutters.
Which courageous leader will
commit first? As fictional Jim
Hacker, Minister of Administrativ e
Affairs in the political satire 'Y es, Minister' say s: "Courageous? I
don't want to do any thing courageous! That's the kind of thing that
ends careers." Swedish PM Fredrik Reinfeldt's was not happy : "Who
sets the speed of progress? The least ambitious."

When groups face common problems, power goes to those who
must agree for any thing to happen. Often their political power and
the v alue of their 'OK' grows as they hold out--supply and demand.
If the problem is bad and people want their 'OK' they say 'Well, first
Y OU must [insert demads here].' They may be conscientious,
backed by their constituencies, so it might not seem immoral.
Leaders build power, stature and wealth for their followers by
gatekeeping. Some may get a Nobel, others may end up in the
International Criminal Court in the Hague. The need for consensus
breeds gatekeeping. That's the game.

Back to Mei Lin's kitchen. It
might be closer to the solution
than banquet halls in world
capitals. The name 'Mother of All
Demos' came later. The actual
name marking the birth of real
personal computing was 'a
research center for augmenting
human intellect.' Doug's idea was
not to make computers smarter,
it was to help people be smarter.
Computers had been about
automation, replacing but not
augmenting intellect. Doug was lucky , a chosen researcher


supported by J.C.R. 'Lick' Licklider at ARPA, the v isionary
accredited for planting the seeds of computing in the digital age.
Normal funders disdained people like Doug: the ideas did not fit
their funding.

Lick coined the "intergalactic computer network," a v ision of
computers collaborating. The Internet protocol that enabled it
was inv ented by V int Cerf and Bob Kahn. V int - often referred to as
'father of the Internet' - is today at Google, still reforming
civ ilization.

Doug hosted the second node of the Arpanet, the predecessor of
the Internet, at his SRI center, believ ing that by networking PCs
humanity could improv e its 'collectiv e intelligence' and solv e
tougher problems: such as av oid nuclear wars, stop pandemics
and solv e env ironmental issues. Solutions v ia traditional
multilateral agreements may be hard: they engender gatekeeping,
brinkmanship and cheating on agreements.

But through improv ed PCs and the Internet, it is easier to
innov ate, to introduce game-changing nov elties, that can by pass
obstacles to getting things done. If gatekeepers disagree, innov ate
and re-design the game to work without them.

This is happening in IT, including music, entertainment and
media, not the least journalism. For ex ample, Creativ e Commons
is an innov ation of copy right in the digital age. HuffPo
bloggerEster Wojcicki, Chairwoman of Creativ e Commons, as well
as the Palo Alto High School Teacher of Mei Lin's daughter among
other kids, was also with us at Mei Lin's this ev ening.

V oices--including Thomas Friedman's--are say ing that innov ation,
not multilateral regulation, should driv e the climate issue. The
ideal: a balance between innov ation and regulation. Necessary
international agreements can be driv en by the innov ation
ecosy stem, putting gatekeepers at risk of being by passed. And
international agreements can enable the innov ation ecosy stem,
through creating incentiv es.

Giv en the impact of personal computers and the Internet on
humanity , I was struck by the intimacy in Mei Lin's kitchen v s. the
grandeur of the manifestations of the world's problems in Oslo and
Copenhagen. As Copenhagen opened our ey es to the difficulties of
creating consensus in a cy nical world, perhaps in 201 0 meetings
in kitchens and garage startups will be equally important to
multilateral negotiations in large congress centers. One could
lev erage the other.

PS. The achiev ement of 'the


Mother of All Demos' was
astonishing. Mei Lin: "That
demo was nev er supposed to
work." It might not hav e if not
for Bill English. Bill was there,
showing his new cell phone.
Later it became known that Google had giv en beta v ersions of its
own Android to selected people (Bill probably among them). Did
any one in Oslo or Copenhagen get one?

F R I D A Y, D EC EM B ER 1 1 , 2 0 0 9

Slovenian InJo-InCo 2009 Manifesto

V ioleta Bulc's V ibacom hav e
released the InJo-InCo 2009
Manifesto, the project is lead
by Estera Lah P0ljak. The
publication is in Slov enian,
there is a summary in English
here. It starts like this:

"Identify ing significant
ev ents and projects,
becoming aware of their
importance in time and
space, critically assessing
their adv antages and
challenges, capturing
responses of different
stakeholders, proposing initiativ es and future activ ities.
These were our guidelines in drafting
the second issue of our annual publication, the InJo-InCo
Manifesto 2009. All of the abov e is also included in the
principles of innov ation journalism, from which the InCo
mov ement as a business-civ il initiativ e was initiated and
grew into wider innov ation communication projects
interconnecting different stakeholders of the innov ation
space based on dialogue. This publication is a result of this
activ e inv olv ement. The title “Manifesto” itself demands
action or manifestation, thus we start by proposing
initiativ es for an innov ativ e breakthrough of Slov enia
drafted based on the philosophy , dialogue and ex periences
of the InCo mov ement in the field of innov ation
communication and journalism in 2009. These initiativ es
are accompanied by commitments the InCo mov ement will
fulfil in 201 0 and which we believ e will raise awareness
about creativ ity and innov ation in Slov enian space."




PBS Mediashift InJo Feature
(Mark Glaser's PBS Mediashift published a v ery nice feature on
Innov ation Journalism. Mark is a leading innov ation journalist
himself, albeit not using that label, cov ering all aspects of
innov ation in journalism. The Mediashift blog is an important
read, I hav e had it in my RSS feed for some time, and am now
subscribing to the Twitter feeds @mediatwit (Mark Glaser) and
@pbsmediashift.

Here is the beginning of Mark's piece - read all of it on PBS
Mediashift.

S TANFO RD PRO GRAM BRE AKS D O W N
W A L L S B E T W E E N B U S IN E S S , T E C H
J O U R N AL I S M
Tagged: david nordfors, innovation,
innovation journalism, stanford university
by Mark Glaser, December 10, 2009

I am so used to hearing about innovation in
journalism that when I first heard about
theInnovation Journalism program at Stanford, I
assumed that's what it focused on. Not exactly.
The VINNOVA-Stanford Research Center of
Innovation Journalism actually focused on helping
journalists cover the field of innovation. David
Nordfors, a Swedish punk rocker-turned-
molecular-physicist-turned-journalist, found that
journalists were stuck in silos of "business
journalism" and "technology journalism" and
couldn't see the big picture of innovation.
In 2003, Nordfors started the Innovation
Journalism program, bringing mid-career
journalists from around the world to Stanford
University as fellows. They were placed in San
Francisco Bay Area newsrooms to learn the new
ways that reporters and bloggers were covering
technology and innovation. Those newsrooms
include the Wall Street Journal, San Francisco
Chronicle, CNET and even the Technologizer
blog. There's also an annual Conference on
Innovation Journalism at Stanford, where the
fellows present their work and discuss related
topics.



While the program was set up to help journalists
do a better job of covering the topic of innovation,
there is now a need for journalists to do a better
job of covering innovation in journalism itself.
Nordfors told me that journalists charged with
covering the media are good practitioners of
innovation journalism, because they are mixing
business, technology, lifestyle and political
journalism in one beat. He stresses that
journalists need to break out of their silos and go
across disciplines for better coverage of
innovation.
I recently sat down with Nordfors at Stanford to
talk about the Innovation Journalism program,
and get his take on the current state of journalism,
and how media companies -- and even
journalism schools -- need to change. The
following is an edited transcript of our
conversation, including audio and video clips.
[ read the rest of it on PBS Mediashift / David.]


LA B ELS : DA V I D NO R DFO R S , I NNO V A T I O N J O UR NA LI S M , M A R K G LA S ER ,
M EDI A S HI FT

S UN D A Y, D EC EM B ER 0 6 , 2 0 0 9

Journalism Needs a Business Model for the Truth

(This story
is also
published
through
the
Huffington
Post)

Journalism's first obligation is to the truth. Discussions about
Truth and Objectiv ity in journalism often become questions of

journalistic ethics and the trustworthiness of indiv iduals and
brands. These are good things but increasingly inadequate in
backing up a story .

Conv incing people the news is true by say ing "because I told y ou
so" is not working as well as it used to. The Internet is making it
harder. Today people can read almost any news publication on the
Internet, or check the sources of journalistic stories.

Some trusted news brands and indiv iduals hav e ex perienced
major scandals in recent y ears. The New Y ork Times suffered from
the fake star journalist Jay son Blair. Iconic anchor Dan Rathers of
CBS’ high-profile inv estigativ e journalism show "60 Minutes"
tripped with the fabricated Killian documents, and was brought
down by blogger Charles Johnson.

How can professional journalism maintain its reputation for truth
and objectiv ity ?

The truth is often elusiv e. Ev ents can hav e many ex planations.
Other circumstances are not what they seem. What we believ e to
be true today may be in doubt tomorrow. And then, of course,
there has to be a news angle.

Phy sicists deal with the truth as closely as any one can come to it.
In science, models that can't predict are discarded and non-
repeatable ex periments dismissed. When scientific researchers
write an article, the reader must alway s be giv en enough
information to be able to repeat the observ ation. Otherwise the
article should not be published.

Journalistic stories are much less accountable. A journalistic
story rarely supplies readers with knowledge and references that
lets the readers confirm the story . Links to information sources
central for the story , ev en public ones readily av ailable on the
Internet, are omitted. Especially old-sty le journalism does not use
links and references, bloggers do, much more.

Journalists and news outlets committed to the truth can make it
into policy to link to important sources, and to write the news
stories such that audiences can see how sources and assumptions
were used to build the story . If readers reconstruct the story this
way , they can add their own research. They can discuss the v alue
of the sources, suggest other sources that were omitted, etc.

Traditional news organizations hav e nev er let that happen,
because links lead readers away from their site. In their ‘attention’
business model – attracting ey eballs to pages and selling them to
adv ertisers - the site needs to be sticky . Instead, the blogosphere
is leading the way in dev eloping the culture of linking to sources,
because it depends less on ads.


Unfortunately , professional journalism has deeply rooted
traditions. I was inv ited recently to a conference with the World
Economic Forum, where we discussed the role of journalism in
society . When I suggested that journalism should link to sources, a
world-leading news organization chief commented that they
wanted to do it and had tried, but their business did not allow it.
For many journalists, that ends the discussion. But this is not
where the discussion ends. Instead, it is where the discussion
begins. We need to ask: "What are the business models for the
principles of journalism?"

Societies that care about improv ing their collectiv e ability to
make priorities and informed decisions, need business models that
promote journalists to link to sources, so that both readers and
other journalists can check the stories and use them for continued
research.

Some people think professional journalism is finished, that it can
be replaced by citizen journalism or social interaction in social
networks. I disagree. Professional journalists hav e an incentiv e to
represent their audience. Who knows which incentiv es unpaid
journalists hav e, or who they hav e their mandate from?

Professional journalism is needed as much now as ev er before.
With the Internet, peoples’ worlds of information are transforming
from silent rural isolation to the bustling cacophonies of the
metropolitan street. Journalists who focus public attention on
issues that interest the public, working in the interest of and with
the mandate of their audiences will be powerful. They will focus
public discussion enabling people to improv e society . The key for
that is in the business model – journalists need the right
incentiv es.


S UN D A Y, N O V EM B ER 2 2 , 2 0 0 9

Statement of The World Economic Forum Global
Agenda Council on the Future of Journalism


Three day s of intense meetings in Dubai are ov er, we made some
significant steps this y ear. The key point made by the Global
Agenda Council on the Future of Journalism - the council I take
part in - is that "journalism" and "the media" are no longer
sy nony ms. Journalism is still v ery much needed, but needs to
reorganize, to ex ist in a different capacity than "the media".

Here follows a
summary from the WEF
web site and other
places:

The second World
Economic Forum
Summit of the Global
Agenda closed today
with participants putting forward a host of ideas for redesigning
the global sy stem. The proposals debated by the Global Agenda
Councils will form the basis of discussion at the World Economic
Forum Annual Meeting in Dav os-Klosters, Switzerland, in
January . For more information on the Summit and the Network of
Global Agenda Councils, v isit http://www.weforum.org/gac

Here below is the final statement of the Global Agenda Council on
the Future of Journalism. The committee members who
participated in the council meeting in Dubai:

Am adou Mahtar Ba, President AllAfrica.com, Senegal
Charlie Beckett, Founding Director - Polis, London
School of Economics, United Kingdom
Dav id Nordfors, Founding Ex ec Director, Innov ation
Journalism, Stanford, USA/Sweden
Guido Baum hauer, Director of Strategy , Marketing and
Distribution, Deutsche Welle, Germany
Rui Chenggang, Director & Anchor, co-founder CCTV -9,
People's Republic of China
Shekhar Gupta, Editor-in-chief, The Indian Ex press,
India
Sulaim an Al Hattlan, CEO Arab Strategy Forum, Saudi
Arabia
Susan King, (Chairwoman), V P Ex ternal Affairs, Director -
Journalism Initiativ e, Special Initiativ es and Strategy ,
Carnegie Corporation, USA
Ulrik Haagerup, Head of News, Danish Broadcasting
Corporation, Denmark
Wilfried Ruetten, Director - European Journalism Centre,
Netherlands/Germany
Zafar Siddiqi, Chairman/Founder CNBC Pakistan,
Chairman/co-founder CNBC Africa, Chairman/CEO CNBC
Arabiy a, Owner SAMAA TV , Chairman/co-founder

Murdoch Univ ersity Study Centre Dubai

The Global Agenda Council on the Future of Journalism
believ es there is a need to reconstruct journalism and its
relationship with the citizen and society . Public engagement
is transforming journalism, offering an historic opportunity
to create unprecedented increased v alue.

The media industry in general, and journalism in particular,
hav e been ex periencing drastic changes which call into
question their role in mediating information to the benefit
of their audience as well as disrupting traditional business
models. Y et in an age when information is more important
than ev er, journalism is v ital for building societies. It is a
sy stemic part of the social, env ironment. We need to build a
new technical, political and financial eco-sy stem to support
it.

There is a need to reinforce its basic principles: freedom of
ex pression, holding power to account, prov iding
information and a forum for debate, empowering citizens to
take decisions about their liv es. But mainstream journalism
must also recognise its past failings and take adv antage of
new technologies and new social forces to reframe its
practice, role and purpose. Journalism has a responsibility
to not only mediate today ’s realities, which go bey ond
national borders, are complex and inter connected, but also
to engage local and global audiences/societies.

This poses an unprecedented set of professional challenges.
Ev en in regions where conv entional journalism is still
growing as a commercial sector, it is also subject to the
impact of the same kinds of technological and social
changes. Likewise, the opportunities this paper identifies
are av ailable in div erse way s to all news media markets.

The Council believ es that it is necessary to redesign
organisations and identify business models that ensure the
sustainability of professional networked journalism as the
digital and mobile media hav e disrupted traditional
distribution models and rev enue streams. As a response,
news organisations need to ensure constant refining of their
talent pool’s professional skill set and equip them with
innov ativ e tool kits. At the same time, to ensure
sustainability and relev ance, organisations with journalism
and journalists at their core may likely dev elop joint
networks and forge strategic partnerships by pooling
resources and sharing rev enues.

At the same time, the journalism itself is changing and so
the business model that creates it must also be reinv ented.
There is a need to support the opportunity afforded by
networked media to dev elop a more constructiv e
journalism. This is based on some traditional v alues such as
the Right to Know and some familiar kinds of editorial work
such as inv estigativ e reporting. But new technologies
enable a different functionality . Internet and digital
journalism allows for fuller and more ex pansiv e story -
telling.



It affords the opportunity for a much greater connectiv ity
between ex perts, journalists and the public. But most
importantly , it allows the public to participate at all stages.
Journalism can now tap into the boundless resource of
knowledge and opinion within the audience. The role of the
journalist changes from gatekeeper to a networker. The best
obtainable v ersion of the truth remains the goal but trust is
not a giv en, it is a mutual relationship between the public
and journalist. The authority of journalism will be built by
the v alue it offers working with the citizen, not by a
professional code alone.

The Global Agenda Council on the Future of Journalism sees
as a priority the establishment and (self) enforcement of
global guiding principles for professional independent
journalism.

Ex isting Gaps:

1 . Can a global concept and practice for independent
professional journalism be encouraged in countries or
env ironments where a different set of v alues ex ists and
censorship still prev ails?

2. Journalists are inadequately appreciated and protected.
If journalism hopes to reinforce its role of watchdog for
abuses of power and democracy , how can accountable
journalists be v alued and safeguarded?

3. Journalism needs the following in their new business
models to continue to ex ist and fufill their commitment to
the global society :

Innov ation and new partnerships
New and improv ed sy stem of journalism education
Increased transparency and accountability

4. News organizations need to understand and lev erage the
new dy namic of the social media rev olution. Traditional
models of journalism are in danger of being marginalised as
public discourse shifts to direct and networked media
platforms, Journalism – both citizen and professional needs
to be fostered in these new spaces.

Journalism needs to integrate the two new principle
characteristics of digital media:

public participation
connectiv ity

Internet and social media permit engagement between the
audience and professional journalists as nev er before. The
new media interactiv ity promises a more dy namic business
and society - but there will be a period of creativ e
reordering that presents a challenge to all stakeholders.

This council believ es that there are common v alues across
div erse news media marketplaces as well as a global
interconnectedness. Journalism has a world-role as well as
a local or national function. This council believ es that when
it is networked, journalism offers a more sustainable


business and a more socially useful way to inform and
communicate about our world. Journalism at its best will
continue to inform and inspire public debate and action.
But this will not happen automatically and needs
inv estment and strategic thinking, primarily by the
journalism industry itself, but also by gov ernment and civ il
society


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