By
Jessica Weiss
As technology advances, journalists and
newsrooms worldwide are trying to both understand digital trends and tools as
well as harness their power for newsgathering, storytelling and engaging the
public.
A digital book released today by the
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation can help. It offers 1,000 tutorials and
learning resources, and sheds new perspectives on the major challenges facing
journalism.
“Searchlights and Sunglasses: Field Notes From the Digital
Age of Journalism” is an interactive online experience that explores
the past, present and future of news. It represents the deep "field
notes" that its author, Eric Newton, senior adviser to Knight
Foundation's president, has gathered over the years as a journalist and grant
maker.
In five in-depth chapters, the book
explores the industry’s evolution, urging journalists and educators to better
blend traditional journalism values with digital age platforms and
opportunities. It delves into media history and policy, investigative
reporting, community engagement and the open data movement.
“Searchlights and Sunglasses” is
intended to be a teaching tool for high school teachers and college journalism
instructors. Its “learning layer” offers up more than 1,000 lesson plans,
resources and tools for educators embedded on an HTML5 site, which is designed
to work well on multiple devices.
The book’s title speaks to the
fundamental changes facing the industry. “While news organizations have thought
of themselves as searchlights for truth, Newton argues that today’s journalists
need to act more like a good pair of sunglasses, filtering, verifying and
curating the news," writes Marika Lynch, a communications
consultant for the foundation.
In Newton’s words, today’s journalists
need to “provide sunglasses to calm the blinding light” in order to help the
public see.
Knight Foundation and three other major
foundations today launched a $1 million challenge "encouraging
universities to create teams that will experiment with new ways of providing
news and information," according to a release.
The announcement
was made at the annual conference of the Online News Association,
which will run the two-year micro-grant contest.
The foundation also announced a $4
million grant to Mozilla to seed innovative news products as well as "grow
a pool of tech talent to lead change in newsroom culture and create a common
space for journalism coders to collaborate," writes Knight Foundation
Media Innovation Associate Marie Gilot.
Source: Ijnet.org
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