I received almost 11,000 words from readers to help my job of re-imagining journalism for contemporary times. It is an unenviable job to extract and paraphrase that to about 700 words to spell out a method forward for journalism. It is an ethical necessary to take a look at readers as active residents and not passive subjects. The concept is to reconcile the two fundamental jobs of journalism– making sense and attesting– with the challenges postured by technological disruptions.
10 crucial suggestions
I have drawn out 10 essential recommendations from our readers in remodeling the modes of journalism. They are: 1) Engage people; 2) Effectively change income models; 3) Deploy multi-media nodes– videos, podcasts, interactive maps and explanatory infographics– in journalism; 4) Release more investigative stories and increase long-form reportage; 5) Produce variety in newsrooms; 6) Boost media literacy; 7) Make papers more interactive; 8) Harness the presence of the paper in social networks platforms not only to increase reach but to counter disinformation and false information; 9) Broaden the concept of explanatory journalism beyond