🔶 #46: "What actually makes for a *good* news experience?"

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Last week I asked: "How can journalism become more people-centric?" Then I sort of changed my mind and unpacked that massive question into five smaller ones. (Not small, just a little small-er.)

Not many answers have come through yet, but the few that came in did not fail to make me think. Check this out:

Q: What does people-centric journalism look like?

A: It has a direct link with people. It aims for hearing back from people it reaches. It listens to them, it takes into account what people tells it, then filters it through its own expertise and understanding, then communicates back to see whether there’s a common ground. And once it finds that common ground, it builds on it. It keeps that conversation going and it cultivates a community out of that conversation. Then it uses that conversation to inform its plans: where to go next, what to cover, how to cover, and how to present. And it creates a feedback loop.

And this:

Q: Will being people-centric make us any money?