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September 27, 2005
Tim Porter on Intentional Journalism
Posted by Stowe Boyd
In a deeply throught through piece, Tim Porter confronts the future of print journalism, based on recent announcements of reductions, and declares that newspapers as we know them are done. Is there a soft landing? It looks like no. Tim suggests that newspapers have to redefine themselves, but not just by thinning everything down:
[from
First Draft by Tim Porter: Building the Journalism of the Future, Intentionally]
Newspapers need to abandon the dangerous position that because they have fewer journalists they will do less of everything - resulting in thin, watery journalism across the board. Instead, they must do more of less - jettisoning some types of coverage, eliminating duplication of effort with the wires (do you need your own writer at Wimbledon, your own movie critics in regional markets?) and developing depth and expertise in a narrower range of topics chosen intentionally to connect with the local community.
Tim suggests that the localization path may be the inevitable one for newspapers. He goes on, however, to makes other statements, like "we must create journalism we can sell." His final suggestion is that journalism must evolve into "intentional" as opposed to passive jourhnalism, which can be interpreted as becoming more activitist, more involved, less objective and passive.
Too much crime? Speak out against it, don't just report it. Think cronyism in government in government is bad? Expose it, and drive those that profit from it from office.
Sounds like intentional journalism is more like gonzo, participatory, artisan journalism: ie, blogging.
Tim is right, what survices of traditional journalism -- and the platform on which it has been presented, newspapers -- will be very, very different. What remains will be some newspaperish DNA that will find its way into some part of the future social media genome. But so much of the broadcast attitude and elitist "we know better than you" principles of conventional journalism will have to be dropped, even to have a few snippets of old journalism threaded into the future genetics of journalism.
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