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Community Journalism Relationship b/w Journalists, Community & the Media
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The journalists and the community come together as one. The journalists are sympathetic to the community's issues because the media see themselves as part of that community. People are given a chance to be citizens by letting them talk about their problems and identifying the people who can solve these problems. Journalists try to find solutions to community problems with the input of the community. Working in Unison
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The media is a forum for the community, not a problem solver. The media empowers the citizens to solve problems on their own as a community, as a group. Reliance on an entity like the newspaper, or the television, or the government, to solve all their problems is finished. The journalists bring the public’s problems to the attention of the community. They are not in any way trying to impose solutions on the citizens. Working in Unison
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Media highlight the problems, but try not to solve the problems. Community solves problems for themselves and takes ownership of the problems and the solutions. Important to match the type of news media that people already use to help them to solve a particular problem. Each medium has its strengths and weaknesses but each can be utilized effectively. Key elements of community journalism
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Example: While dealing with the community journalism issue of education, there might be collaboration between newspapers, radio and television on the news coverage of the issues surrounding education. Each media would take different angles; each would follow up regarding education in different ways. Information in a newspaper will intimate people about a radio broadcast or TV program on the same subject. Different angles and different stories, with each one promoting the other, help in this collaboration. Collaboration in Media
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Community journalism is a conversation, a dialogue, a two-way exchange. The media talking to the people and the people talking back to the media. To explore all the various viewpoints of an issue, and not to draw a judgment that one person is right or one person is wrong. Present a variety of sides of the issue so that the people can be informed about the issue as they find their own solutions to problems. Collaboration between Citizens
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Community journalism is not a debate; it is a conversation about all the various elements or aspects of an issue and its potential solutions. Media just focus on all the different angles of an issue through these discussions. Media are promoting people acting on their own to address a problem issue. Then the people feel strong enough, informed enough, to pursue their own solutions to problems. Collaboration b/w Media & Citizens
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A "Deliberative discourse" is established. It is a lengthy discussion of issues resulting from the investigation within the community. The media and citizens are fellow problem solvers but what the people decide, is what is best. When the people decide, they do so by weighing the strengths of all the various sides of an issue to come to a compromise, The media’s job is only to help them understand and appreciate how other people think and feel in order to reach a decision. Collaboration b/w Media & Citizens
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Community journalism model is described as “working toward a choice” that everybody can agree upon. Community journalism is a grassroots movement, a way in which the media serve the citizens of a community. Journalists should find out not only the facts but what’s important to the community and report in media. If then the media ask the right questions, they are providing an in-depth opportunity for analysis far more than news. Collaboration b/w Media & Journalists
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Community journalism is about establishing trust. The people tell the media what’s important and the media give them as much information/opportunity to discuss the issues as possible The public judgment, when made on an informed basis, is always right, regardless of whether the media agree with it or not. Community journalism helps to build some common ground between the community, the media and the political system Collaboration b/w Media, Journalists & the Community
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What brought you into this issue? What experiences or beliefs might lead decent and caring people to support that point of view? Is that where the disagreement lies? What's your underlying interest? Is that something you personally believe? What's your reason for saying that? Describe the other side's position to me. What point, that the other side makes, makes the most sense to you? What trade-offs would you be willing to live with? What sacrifices are you unwilling to accept? What alternative is the least persuasive? What makes this issue so difficult? Key Questions Journalists should Ask
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