#17 Why The Future of Journalism is Collaborative with Heather Bryant
Heather Bryant is the founder and director of Project Facet, an open source infrastructure project that supports newsroom collaboration with tools to manage the logistics of creating, editing and distributing collaborative content, managing projects, facilitating collaborative relationships and sharing the best practices of collaborative journalism.
Demystifying Media at the University of Oregon · heather bryant, Damian Radcliffe
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Show Notes
About Our Guest:
As a 2016-2017 John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford, Heather researched how to make collaboration easier and more effective for newsrooms. This year, she published the Collaborative Journalism Workbook and works with the Center for Cooperative Media to chronicle collaborative projects from around the world in the Collaborative Journalism Database. Her work includes managing the Collaborative Journalism Slack and doing trainings and workshops on effective, meaningful editorial collaboration.
Find Heather Online:
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Show notes:
(00:04): Guest Introduction
(01:03): The importance of collaboration in newsrooms
(02:38): Newsroom collaboration as a necessity in 2018 across the US
(03:46): Potential reasons for collaborating with new organizations
(08:25): Checklist of things organizations should be thinking about when they're looking at collaboration
(11:18): Navigating challenges while collbaoring with various working cultures and practices
(13:24): The significance of creating a safe work space
(14:46): Factors to overcome in order to increase collaborations among newsrooms
(17:20): Collaboration entails being inclusive of both journalists and people from other industries
(20:21): Representing people from different backgrounds in the newsrooms
(22:49): Advice and solutions the journalism industry needs to embrace
(25:08): Wrap-up
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