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In which I try to apply the idea of social journalism we are building a program around at CUNY to the news of #Ferguson. Snippet: But what will be hardest to teach — what is hardest for me to learn — is tamping down the journalistic reflex to start with the assumption that we know what’s needed and that our stories will meet those needs. As I watch the news in Ferguson, I can’t help but do what an editor does, imagining stories to assign: on, say, the racial composition of the town and its history and tensions, on prior cases of police brutality, on the politics of the town — who’s in charge and how does that match the composition of the community, and so on. We call that news judgment. But the truth is, of course, I don’t know Ferguson worth a damn. I don’t know what its needs are. I am in no position to decide how best to use precious journalistic resource to help them — let alone tell their story to the world. buzzmachine/2014/08/16/social-journalism-ferguson/
Posted on: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 18:28:34 +0000

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