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May 02, 2008
Newsroom and Community Connection Map
More from NewsTools 2008
Please check out these two awesome diagrams. They’re not directional, point-A-to-point-B maps. These are value network maps: The first diagram looks at the old news story (who’s involved, where the connections are between audience, source, producers, advertisers, etc.); the second one, below, looks at the emerging news ecology (editors as “sense makers” and a very different pathway between the audience, sources and others). These brilliant maps were drawn up by Sherrin Bennett with collaboration from the Journalism That Matters team.
For me, the maps were like a massive brain-dump (in the most positive sense of the term). A lot of us here at the NewsTools conference had pieces of these maps in our heads, in that we all had at least a theoretical understanding of these networked online and offline connections in the news world. The maps make these ideas concrete.
Separately, Robert Niles of the Online Journalism Review wrote about some of the problems with journalists, based on conversations he had yesterday at the conference. Among them: Impatience with unsolved problems (and a low tolerance for imperfection), and an unwillingness to serve drinks and dessert (the fun, lighthearted and interesting stuff) along with the vegetables (hard-hitting, investigative pieces) of journalism.
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