Crowdsourcing and Community
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Terry Parris, Jr., shares the techniques of his trade, career advice and inspiration for a future where journalists build bridges with communities, and engagement journalism is just called journalism.
Like Terry says, "My goal, my future goal is that we stop talking about this as engagement, as separate from journalism or a separate person who does engagement. One of the things that I want to happen is that when you think of a project as a reporter, engagement becomes part of that. It becomes inevitable, becomes ubiquitous with what we do.”
This lively lecture contains many real-life crowdsourcing examples from Terry’s work at ProPublica, including covering Vietnam War veterans exposed to Agent Orange, uncovering misleading political emails and more. The video includes a step-by-step, in-depth review of an ambitious ProPublica investigation into maternal deaths in the United States called “Lost Mothers” with guest Adriana Gallardo.
Take this class whether you are a journalism student, a professional journalist or a member of the public curious to take a peek behind the scenes.
This video lecture is made possible by a generous grant from the News Integrity Initiative to "build enduring trust and mutual respect between newsrooms and the public through sustained listening, collaboration, and transparency."
The series was filmed in the Newmark J-School studio in New York.
Terry Parris Jr.
Meet Terry
A Christmas robbery
Build a bridge
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People want to tell their stories
Harmed and ignored
Community vs. audience
Reporting recipes
Learning empathy
J-school and first job
Say yes to everything
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The day of the heat wave
Be helpful
Landing the "unattainable" job
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Undocumented workers
The Listening Post
Vietnam veterans
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Soft skills
Write "letters to grandma"
Top-down vs. bottom-up
Social "shoe-leather" reporting
Firestone and the warlord
The right audience
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The travel ban
Dealing with 8,000 stories
Vet and verify
Reporter, not advocate
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Two books that changed me
(Re)building trust
How to pitch your editor
The future
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Defining the community. From private tragedy to public issue.
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GoFundMe. A rigorous process. Baby photographers. One mother's story.
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Build a relationship. Sort out stories. Next steps. Reach sources outside your circle. In their own voices. What works best.
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Setting up the form. Testing the form. The spreadsheet. The feedback loop. Bulk messaging tricks.
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Reporting gaps. The StoryCorps method. Curate the experience. Tell the big story. Conversations. Smaller newsrooms.
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Reporting trauma. Defining impact. Exiting.
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