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If you’re choosing to avoid the news, or if the #news is having a negative affect on your #wellbeing, you’re not alone. (Thread!)
The tone and the content of (most) news is driving people away. And it seems many journalists just don’t get that what excites them, is just … 1/
The tone and the content of (most) news is driving people away. And it seems many journalists just don’t get that what excites them, is just … 1/
… irrelevant to many people.
This article from @ConversationUK covers the issues really well:
http://theconversation.com/brexit-how-the-people-are-using-news-avoidance-to-escape-the-post-truth-world-of-politics-123218
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This article from @ConversationUK covers the issues really well:
http://theconversation.com/brexit-how-the-people-are-using-news-avoidance-to-escape-the-post-truth-world-of-politics-123218
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For too long, #journalists #news #press #media have believed the tired old tropes about #journalism. ‘Journalism is printing something someone doesn’t want printed, all the rest is public relations’. ‘If it bleeds, it leads’. But surely we can do better than this?
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Not only better #journalism than this, but different. For example:
https://digest.bps.org.uk/2019/09/06/peoples-responses-to-news-clips-suggest-there-is-a-greater-market-for-happy-stories-than-journalists-realise/
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https://digest.bps.org.uk/2019/09/06/peoples-responses-to-news-clips-suggest-there-is-a-greater-market-for-happy-stories-than-journalists-realise/
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Why are some of us avoiding #news? Is it because some people trust news #media less? Or does it have more to do with what we offer and bring to them? Are #journalists adding value to people’s lives?
http://nie.mn/2Klxqc4 via @NiemanLab
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http://nie.mn/2Klxqc4 via @NiemanLab
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Is it because they’re getting burned out with one particular topic, like #Brexit in the UK, or Donald Trump in the US?
This from @WBUR @NPR:
https://wbur.fm/2xc7tTB via @OnPointRadio
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This from @WBUR @NPR:
https://wbur.fm/2xc7tTB via @OnPointRadio
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Here’s what all of us in #radio #tv #press #media #journalism should remember: 'Especially in a diversified media environment, news producers should not underestimate the audience for positive news content.’
https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2019/08/27/1908369116 via @PNASNews
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https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2019/08/27/1908369116 via @PNASNews
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And how do we do that? Not just by doing fluffy’n’feelgood stuff, although there’s MUCH more room in our bulletins, programmes and website for celebratory, particularly locally celebratory content than most of us seem to believe at the moment.
#journalism #media #press
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#journalism #media #press
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We don’t have to stop talking about problems, holding people to account, lifting the rock and finding what’s crawling. But as well as reporting on problems, issues, challenges, difficulties and so on, we can highlight SOLUTIONS.
It’s called #solutionsjournalism.
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It’s called #solutionsjournalism.
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And if you’re in a commercial or community media environment, and thinking ’S&P will never go for this’, check this out:
#Solutions #journalism combats #news avoidance, and can boost subscriptions by 2x https://whatsnewinpublishing.com/solutions-journalism-combats-news-avoidance-and-can-boost-subscriptions-by-2x/
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#Solutions #journalism combats #news avoidance, and can boost subscriptions by 2x https://whatsnewinpublishing.com/solutions-journalism-combats-news-avoidance-and-can-boost-subscriptions-by-2x/
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There are other ways to do what we do. Better ways, that serve our audiences better and take advantage of the #media’s huge potential to help make the world a better place.
Because I don’t know about you, but that’s why I do it.
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Because I don’t know about you, but that’s why I do it.
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Inspired, or just intrigued? Check out https://www.solutionsjournalism.org . Follow @soljourno @c_journalism @CGyldensted @SeanDaganWood @PositiveNewsUK. Read around the topic, and share this with your #newsroom colleagues?
I’d be interested in your thoughts.
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I’d be interested in your thoughts.
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