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RJI PICTURED

<block>What was journalism? What might it become? What are its values and functions in a participatory democracy? We plan to make signs out of these slogans and put them around theFred W. Smith Forum. The purpose is to remind us that they're entering a new medium, and to help us focus on journalism in the new medium.

Here's what we've come up with so far. Use the wiki function to add your suggestions: </block>

Self-contained statements

• How does the story want to tell itself?
• Stories never end.
• Advertising IS news.
• Content is context.
• Journalists serve their community.
• New roles, new rules.
• Journalism is a lifestyle.
• Journalism is participatory.
• Journalism is context.
• Journalism is solution-oriented.
• Journalism is immediate and continuous.
• Journalism is personal.

Journalism is . . .

• a conversation
• the stories of our time
• community glue
• verified gossip
• democracy's mouthpiece

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