🔶 #38: "What two researchers found in a yearlong quest for journalism innovation"
Hello and welcome back to the News Alchemists newsletter!
Do you remember JR3? It's the project I developed earlier this year with the Knight Lab at Northwestern University to explore how journalism might be more useful to its audiences.
(JR3 is short for 'Rethink, Recenter, Reimagine. Journalism in Transition'.)
Two months ago we launched JR3 Debate, a Google Doc with big ambitions, as I described it at the time: we wanted to see if one collaborative document could become "the biggest space on the globe to debate what the purpose of journalism really is".
Ok, "biggest space on the globe" might have been a tiny exaggeration... but a very interesting debate has developed nonetheless in that not-so-humble Google Doc.
There are two reasons why I'm opening this week's newsletter with this:
- I wanted to point you to some threads in JR3 Debate that you might find interesting, and might want to take part in by sharing your thoughts – if reflecting on what journalism is for is your thing.
- I have a new question for you.