Sharing your thoughts…
Posted: April 8, 2013 Filed under: What people are thinking Comments OffThe mix of ideas and constructive thoughts that will shape the Scoop Foundation Project are being enriched by the shared input of many people. Some of the thoughts contributed to that mix have included:
Suggestions on focus
- to have a particular focus on long form journalism
- to focus on experienced journalists and the craft of journalism as a ‘bedrock’
Suggestions on potential for wide pooling of resources to enable public interest journalism
- to forge strong links with journalism schools and journalism students
- to provide possible access to backroom researchers for working journalists
- to assist and better enable tasks like lodging Official Information Act requests
- to secure avenues for legal advice on administrative, constitutional and public law issues
Suggestions on who to involve
- to involve “hard-nosed” sub-editors as well as writers
- to factor in commercial publishers e.g. NZ Geographic
- to encompass an understanding of the role of public watchdogs and citizen journalism
Suggestions on funding
- to make use of crowd funding websites
Suggestions on and offers of collaboration
- to collaborate with Creative Commons
- to collaborate with Wiki New Zealand
- to collaborate with some existing Awards programmes (Bruce Jesson Foundation? Walkleys?)
Suggestions on bigger ideas
- to explore models that allow members of the public to interact with specific projects (ref Guardian model, Social media) e.g. an online facility to list topics that can be “upvoted”
- to consider gaps in the publishing sphere for new publications/ magazines/ books
- to investigate educational initiatives e.g. at secondary school level, to promote an understanding of public interest journalism
