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<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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