Journo stuff I’ve collected on 01/02/2014

• What worked, what didn’t | What will work – journalism’s future

  “There are stories that still need to be told. There is so much news that isn’t getting reported, or not reported well enough.

  Here’s a handful of lesser-told stories I picked to fill just one slide:

  Half of all under-5s that die, die in southern Africa.
  Four-in-ten children globally don’t survive their first month; one-in-three children starve to death
  WW2 didn’t stop wars: 51 wars and major conflicts in 1992; 21 in 2002; 38 in 2011… around 34 today.
  More people have been killed in genocides since 1960 than died in WW2 concentration camps
  17 countries have higher life expectancy than UK
  Over 45k UK homes will be repossessed this year.
  The journalism needs to be done. It doesn’t matter what’s happening in the news industry or to advertising profits. We need good journalism. “

  tags: journalism future lecture

• Introducing Contributoria : January 2014 : : Contributoria

  “At Contributoria everyone can get involved in the entire process – by backing proposals from journalists and funding their projects, to commissioning new projects in areas of special interest which don’t necessarily make the pages of the mainstream media.

  And then they can stay involved, making suggestions and edits in a collaborative process which will result in a fresh edition of original in-depth reporting every month.”

  tags: journalism collaboration innovation GMG contributoria

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