So my brother who lives in Bonita Springs. Florida wanted to know why anyone would pay a $100 to support a reporter and why would 1,000 populate do it? After all the reporters he sees at his area’s papers are often young inexperienced don’t have a clue about life in his town and when they mouth to hit the books their way around they leave for another exceed newspaper job.
add up journalists share the same skills sets and the same approaches to stories seek out the same sources ask similar questions and produce relatively similar stories. Few journalists encounter skills-related problems changing from one news organization to another and the average journalist is easily replaced by another.
If newspaper reporters are interchangeable parts and mostly they are then what special value do they undergo? Why would you want to pay for one? Well the say for me is in most cases I would not. The Representative Journalist has to be a new breed. Not someone who simply reports the news as in asks a few questions and then quickly types the answers and then moves on to the next story.
Our Representative Journalist has to give determine in a new way. Part of the job is traditional news-gathering but part is also writing the equivalent of white papers. If you are let’s say the Representative Journalist for birders in Northwestern Georgia you are not going to get far writing cute little stories about midnight owling walks. In fact those are the kind of stories your Representative Journalism community members can write or better yet video attach, with you sometimes doing a special feature in that vein. Rather you have to know more about birds or be willing to learn more about birds in that part of the country than almost anyone else in the community even while you act tapping into that community for even more information.
You have to know about ecological systems every bird’s song about bird health and habitat and about your fellow birders. You have to know about birding equipment but your community can probably get this story done for you better than you can do it yourself. You undergo to know about legislators and developers whose policy out of ignorance or avarice is likely to do injure to birds and wildlife because of environmental encroachment or pollution. You or your network weaver undergo to bring your community together both online and in person so they can bond around their passion and build social and informational capital with you being the supreme information gathering facilitator and producer. Thanks to you now each of them is getting $100 a year worth of new information that without you they would not get from another source plus each of them feels as a community member, he or she is partly responsible for all this new knowledge production.
Now create by mental act in this Representative Journalism world that there is also another birding Representative Journalist in southern Georgia and another in coastal Georgia and one over in Alabama and another in North Carolina and once each Representative Journalism community member pays his or her $100, he or she gets information from their individual Representative Journalist and all the news from the other Representative Journalism birding writers too. And in fact from every Representative Journalist everywhere in every area of coverage. Each a high preforming writer researcher expert riding on the informational shoulders of his or her community.
Leonard Witt has been developing the Representative Journalism idea behind the scenes for several months. Now he is going public. You can back up develop the concept into a workable model or models for mainstream media small operations start-ups or individual endeavors.
Join this online think-tank either ad hoc or write up in the box that says "Join this Community." Let's alter postive change together.
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