“There may be two partners who think they can’t work together, but really you could have a meeting or two and talk things out and resolve some questions — and then they actually could work together.”
The Canadian startup OpenFile was a bet on collaboration between journalists and their audience: “We learned that we shouldn’t dismiss [a story] just because it’s not articulated in a way that we would as journalists.”
“For a soft power approach to disinformation to work, it is critical that all stakeholders do in fact work together…If it fails, cruder responses may be the only ones left. But let’s hope not.”
Chicago’s City Bureau is betting on local residents doing this sort of low-key not-quite-journalism at meetings, and now it’s expanding the model to Detroit.
“These commons — the air, the water, the soil, our food, our health — these are things we share, and they are deeply linked across countries. We need to start seeing them that way.”
Schmidt, Christine. "From microplastics to mega-stories: Journalism nonprofit Orb works the global-local angle." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 8 Jan. 2018. Web. 11 Dec. 2024.
APA
Schmidt, C. (2018, Jan. 8). From microplastics to mega-stories: Journalism nonprofit Orb works the global-local angle. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved December 11, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2018/01/from-microplastics-to-mega-stories-journalism-nonprofit-orb-works-the-global-local-angle/
Chicago
Schmidt, Christine. "From microplastics to mega-stories: Journalism nonprofit Orb works the global-local angle." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified January 8, 2018. Accessed December 11, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2018/01/from-microplastics-to-mega-stories-journalism-nonprofit-orb-works-the-global-local-angle/.
Wikipedia
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