tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-268722422024-03-12T18:03:43.953-07:00The Innovation Journalism BlogComments on the Development of the Concept and the Community of Innovation JournalismDavid Nordforshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17806293501450632730noreply@blogger.comBlogger131125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26872242.post-7819891469997084202011-02-16T16:07:00.000-08:002011-04-01T18:59:24.406-07:00The Challenge of Discussing Innovation and Jobs.<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sven Otto Littorin</td></tr>
</tbody></table>Sven Otto Littorin, Swedish entrepreneur in politics and business will be visiting the Stanford Center for Innovation and Communication until July 2011. Mr Littorin is interested in developing the link between innovation and jobs, and the interaction between creation of policy and public discussion, crossing the traditional verticals of government.<br />
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Mr Littorin was the Swedish Minister for Employment 2006-10, the President of the European Council of Ministers (EPSCO) 2009, and Secretary General of the Swedish Moderate Party 2002-06. Prior to that, he was co-founder of the venture catalyst firm Momentor, and a senior vice president of the corporate communication consultancy KREAB.<br />
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During his time as Minister for Employment he introduced some major policy reforms, which were a part of the Swedish strategy for creating economic growth while reducing unemployment.<br />
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The Innovation Journalism initiative at the Stanford Center for Innovation and Communication is a good match with Littorin's interest in bridging policies for innovation and jobs. Governments are vertical, ministries handling innovation and jobs are different silos. Newsrooms are vertical, too. Journalists covering jobs rarely cover innovation and vice versa. Are the verticals in government and in the fourth estate reinforcing each other, making it even more difficult to bridge topics that need to be brought together, like innovation and jobs? Can horizontal innovation journalism play a part in lowering the barriers between decision makers in different silos in government and industry?<br />
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These are good questions to discuss between the Innovation Journalism initiative and Mr Littorin.<br />
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The full bio of Mr Littorin is available on the Stanford InJo <a href="http://injo.stanford.edu/node/227">website</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer">David Nordfors is co-founder and executive director of the VINNOVA-Stanford Research Center of Innovation Journalism at Stanford University. He coined the concept of "Innovation Journalism" in 2003.</div>David Nordforshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17806293501450632730noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26872242.post-71591682555493017312010-12-09T08:17:00.000-08:002010-12-09T08:17:54.819-08:00Amir Jahangir on InJo in Pakistan - Interview by VOA Urdu<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/UyTIZO0RdrI?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br />
Amir Jahangir is working on introducing InJo in Pakistan. He is on Stanford University InJo advisory board, where Innovation Journalism first started a few years ago, and is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader. As CEO of Pakistani SAMAA TV, he introduced the first ever Pakistani TV series covering innovation. Already after half a year of broadcasting, <a href="http://blog.innovationjournalism.org/2010/01/injo-tv-series-wins-brand-of-year.html">the SAMAA "Innovation" show won the brand of the year award</a> in competition with over 500 other brands, showing that InJo has potential also in emerging economies.<div class="blogger-post-footer">David Nordfors is co-founder and executive director of the VINNOVA-Stanford Research Center of Innovation Journalism at Stanford University. He coined the concept of "Innovation Journalism" in 2003.</div>David Nordforshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17806293501450632730noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26872242.post-41022409342369656672010-12-01T14:23:00.000-08:002010-12-01T14:26:58.451-08:00A pitch to the Knight NewschallengeThe <a href="http://www.newschallenge.org/">Knight News Challenge</a> is closing its call for proposals in just a few hours. The Newschallenge has a very good submission process. Pitch a short idea. If it's good, you'll be invited to make a full proposal. The Foundation will get involved and coach. That's the way to support innovative seed projects. The approach is quite similar to that of the <a href="http://www.kks.se/">Swedish Knowledge Foundation</a> back in the 90s, which led to a number of groundbreaking initiatives, such as <a href="http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/151/mayhem-on-madison-avenue.html">Hyper Island</a>, the first Swedish education for modern media executives, today a successful international operation (disclosure: I was the director of research funding).<br />
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Here is an pitch for the Newschallenge by social network analysis wizzard Marc Smith and myself. We are suggesting the next generation news research and analysis tool.<br />
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<blockquote><b>ZANGLit: MAP NEWS ANGLES AND POINTS OF VIEW</b></blockquote><blockquote>Unwind the spin, map news angles and points of view with ZANGLit (short for “news-angle it”).</blockquote><blockquote>ZANGLit is a simple tool for understanding which players stand where and how they talk. We do it by combining word clustering and social network analysis.</blockquote><blockquote>Today, Google News lists news outlets covering a story. It groups stories with similar key words - one list for “Turkey and stuffing”, another for “Turkey and NATO”. But it remains up to the user to identify news angles, to discern interests behind angles, and to recognize language that is typical for interest groups and angles. This requires familiarity with the topic and the players and good analytic thinking.</blockquote><blockquote>ZANGLit goes further than Google News. ZANGL a story to map the news angles, points of view, interest groups and typical language belonging to them. With this, you will get a picture of the politics around a story. </blockquote><blockquote>Example: Breaking News. A bus with NATO troops blows up in Afghanistan, hit by a missile fired from a drone. The many casualties include U.S. soldiers. NATO country officials condemn the attack. Turkish officials criticize the way U.S. troops are managed. Different news angles appear: one focuses on the insurgency’s new capabilities, another focuses on discussions between the U.S. and NATO partners on when to leave Afghanistan (will the attack accelerate or delay pull-out? – different points of view). A third examines disagreements within NATO, and between the Turkey and the U.S. Different news outlets pick different angles. Social-media comments add a layer of information to the story’s structure and audience.</blockquote><blockquote>ZANGL the story and you will map angles, points of view, and clusters of players.</blockquote><blockquote>How do we do it? For example, proponents of a NATO pullout use expressions that opponents don’t use. The Twitter-sphere boils with discussion: we see who refers to whom, who links to which news stories, the language they use and we map it. Among the millions agreeing and disagreeing, different angles, points of views, and different choice of words - people cluster into islands in the social/language-space, visible to those who can master the latest knowledge and algorithms in social-network analysis and the visualization of complex data sets. </blockquote><blockquote>For example, we can show that the expression “Global warming” is becoming mainly used by the nay-sayers. The environmentally conscious are talking about “climate change”. Social network analysis of Twitter shows this.</blockquote><blockquote>Using open-source platforms, adding our own development, we develop tools for understanding the ongoing battles around the stories. Journalists will use these tools to map the stakeholders and identify the core concepts and clusters in coverage. Sources and topics can be discovered in these maps, highlighting alliances and antagonisms within the population of a story's stakeholders.</blockquote><blockquote>It will be free for all to analyze the news. We are considering earning money by selling analysis relevant for the stock market, following brands in the same way as we can follow news stories.</blockquote><br />
<blockquote><b>David Nordfors</b> is the co-founder and Executive Director of the Stanford Center for Innovation and Communication, which runs the Innovation Journalism initiative at Stanford. He is a Senior Research Scholar at Stanford University's H-Star Institute. He coined the concepts of Innovation Journalism (2003) and Attention Work (2006) and started the first innovation journalism initiatives, in Sweden (2003) and at Stanford (2005). Nordfors is a member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on the Future of Journalism, a part of the World Economic Forum Global Redesign Initiative. He is an adjunct professor and advisor to the Dean at the Samy Ofer School of Communication at IDC Herzliya in Israel. He is a visiting professor in Journalism and Mass Media at the School of Government, Social Sciences and Humanities, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico. He is also a visiting professor and senior media advisor for Innovation Journalism at the Deutsche Welle Akademie, Deutsche Welle, Bonn, Germany. He serves as advisor to the executive director of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Nordfors is a member of the advisory board of DISCERN investment analytics, and several other non-academic organizations.</blockquote><blockquote><b>Marc Smith</b> is a sociologist specializing in the social organization of online communities and computer mediated interaction. Marc founded and managed the Community Technologies Group at Microsoft Research in Redmond, Washington and led the development of social media reporting and analysis tools for Telligent Systems. At Microsoft, he developed the “Netscan” web application and data mining engine that allows researchers studying Usenet newsgroups and related repositories of threaded conversations to get reports on the rates of posting, posters, crossposting, thread length and frequency distributions of activity. Smith is the co-editor with Peter Kollock of Communities in Cyberspace(Routledge), a collection of essays exploring the ways identity; interaction and social order develop in online groups. Along with Derek Hansen and Ben Shneiderman, he is the co-author and editor of Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL: Insights from a connected world, a guide to mapping connections created through computer-mediated interactions (forthcoming Summer 2010 onMorgan-Kaufmann).</blockquote><blockquote>Smith received a B.S. in International Area Studies from Drexel University in Philadelphia in 1988, an M.Phil. in social theory from Cambridge University in 1990, and a Ph.D. in Sociology from UCLA in 2001. He is an affiliate faculty at the Department of Sociology at the University of Washington and the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland. Smith is also a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Media-X Program at Stanford University.</blockquote><div class="blogger-post-footer">David Nordfors is co-founder and executive director of the VINNOVA-Stanford Research Center of Innovation Journalism at Stanford University. He coined the concept of "Innovation Journalism" in 2003.</div>David Nordforshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17806293501450632730noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26872242.post-66646281975187729162010-11-05T12:13:00.000-07:002010-11-05T12:13:25.388-07:00Swedish Bay Area Achievement Award for InJo Fellowships<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://sacc-usa.org/currents/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/SACC-SF-Ach-Award-2010-e1288383392216.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="http://sacc-usa.org/currents/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/SACC-SF-Ach-Award-2010-e1288383392216.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Very honoring, indeed! I was awarded the Swedish Bay Area Achievment Award for Most Beneficial Exchange. The Innovation Journalism Fellowships have been going on for several years and have led to improved networks between journalists in Silicon Valley and in Sweden and other countries with InJo Fellowships. So I wish to share the honor of this award with all Swedish InJo Fellows!<br />
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The Press release is here below:<br />
<blockquote>Contact: Maria Larsson FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</blockquote><blockquote>Email: maria.larsson(at-sign)sacc-sf.org</blockquote><blockquote><b>The Swedish Bay Area Achievement Awards are successfully concluded for this year</b></blockquote><blockquote>On October 22nd, more than 160 Bay Area cultural personalities, businessmen and –women celebrated the winners of the Swedish Bay Area Achievement Awards. The winners were </blockquote><blockquote><ul><li><b>the Swedish-American Library and Archives Committee (Cultural Enrichment), </b></li>
<li><b>David Nordfors (Most Beneficial Exchange), </b></li>
<li><b>and Mimi the Sardine (Business Achievement).</b></li>
</ul></blockquote><blockquote>The gala is an event set to take place every year, celebrating and awarding the people furthering Swedish culture and business in the Bay Area. The idea is to build on our solid history as inventors, innovators and pioneers, paying homage to our brilliant forebears, i.e., the inventor of the dynamite, the innovator of the modern zipper and cultural pioneers like Jenny Lind and Greta Garbo.</blockquote><blockquote>The first winner was <b>The Swedish-American Library and Archives Committee</b>, a dedicated group of people preserving the Swedish heritage by archiving books, memorabilia, photographs as well as historic Swedish newspaper Vestkusten in their offices at the Swedish-American Hall. They were represented by Susan Bianucci who thanked the jury and spoke of their upcoming plans of the upcoming plans to go completely digital. The group was awarded the prize for being the most original contribution and for “their innovative spirit that helps keep our past as a part of our present” as presenter Mark Johnson of San Francisco State University put it.</blockquote><blockquote>The second winner, awarded for his work in innovation journalism at Stanford University as well as in Sweden was <b>David Nordfors</b>. A tireless traveler and promoter of Sweden, David Nordfors was handed his award “for being particularly successful within both the academic and the business world” and the jury particularly picked him for his efforts to continually improve the bonds between both countries and commerce between them. Said Mr. Nordfors, “Thank you so much for this, this award was totally unexpected!”</blockquote><blockquote><b>Mimi the Sardine</b>, the recipient of the third award, for success in business, expressed the same kind of enthusiasm for the honor. “This is immensely meaningful for me personally. This is the result of the creative power of the Fika-rast”. Pia Andersson and her team stood out among the stiff competition in the award category for Business Achievement. The motivation for the winner emphasized innovative thinking, display of corporate social responsibility, business savvy and creative playfulness, all the while walking their own path in creating children’s eating accessories.</blockquote><blockquote>The Award recipients were selected by a distinguished Panel of Judges:</blockquote><blockquote><ul><li>Pär Arvidsson, Founder and Managing Director at Snowshoe Capital and Olympic Gold Medalist </li>
<li>Katarina Bonde, Managing Director at Kubicorp </li>
<li>Mark Friedler, Consultant, Entrepreneur and Speaker Netanel Jacobsson, CEO and Founder of PlayHopper (former Director of Intl Business Development at Facebook)</li>
<li>Mark Johnson, Professor of Art and Gallery Director at San Francisco State University</li>
<li>Barbro Osher, Consul General of Sweden in San Francisco </li>
<li>Rikard Steiber, Global Ads Marketing Director at Google </li>
<li>Jan Uddenfeldt, Senior VP and Senior Technology Advisor to Ericsson’s CEO </li>
<li>Nils Welin, CEO of Cypress Security and Chairman of the Board for SACC-SF/SV</li>
</ul></blockquote><blockquote>The award dinner was held at the crimson halls of the Regency Center’s Lodge Level in San Francisco, with guests enjoying wine provided exclusively by vineyard Malbec & Malbec Cellars, exquisite food by caterer Chef Pelle to the sweet tunes of world-renowned singer Jan Johansen. Highlights of the evening included a dance performance by Katja Björner and Garen Price Scribner (appeared courtesy of SF Ballet, Helgi Tomasson, Artistic Director), choreographed by Yuri Zhukov, an hors d'oeuvres cook-off between Ola Fendert (Oola Restaurant) and Thomas Weibull (Swell) and an energizing speech by Dan Parisi, Executive Vice President of BTS Group in San Francisco, who in a humorously way assured the audience of his Swedish street credentials.</blockquote><blockquote>###</blockquote><blockquote>For more information about the Swedish American Chamber of Commerce-SF/SV visit www.sacc-sf.org For questions regarding this press release please contact Maria Larsson. 415 781 4188 email maria.larsson(at-sign)sacc-sf.org </blockquote><blockquote>==========================</blockquote><blockquote>PS. The list of judges is inserted from a previous release /D</blockquote><div class="blogger-post-footer">David Nordfors is co-founder and executive director of the VINNOVA-Stanford Research Center of Innovation Journalism at Stanford University. He coined the concept of "Innovation Journalism" in 2003.</div>David Nordforshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17806293501450632730noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26872242.post-8989381594491200622010-11-03T08:34:00.000-07:002010-11-03T08:43:59.107-07:00Kirsten Mogensen: Finding New Journalism Research Directions at Stanford<embed allowfullscreen="false" allowscriptaccess="always" bgcolor="FFFFFF" flashvars="file=http://ructube.appinux.com/uploads/0hckEQebymu1QQlm0VaP.flv&image=http://ructube.appinux.com/uploads/player_thumbs/0hckEQebymu1QQlm0VaP.jpg&backgcolor=FFFFFF&stretching=fill&skin=http://ructube.appinux.com/skins/Snel.swf&autostart=false&fullscreen=&logo=http://ructube.appinux.com/images/playerlogos/logo-player.png&icons=false&link=http://ructube.appinux.com/videos/44/visiting-stanford-u&linktarget=_self&displayclick=link" height="200" src="http://ructube.appinux.com/flvplayer.swf" width="375" wmode="transparent"></embed><br />
Prof Kirsten Mogensen at Rosilde University found a new direction in journalism research as a visiting scholar at the <a href="http://injo.stanford.edu/">Stanford Center for Innovation and Communication</a>, the home of the Innovation Journalism Fellowship Program. Kirsten was a journalist for many years, her story has a very nice flow - click on the video to see her tell her story.<br />
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During her stay at Stanford, Kirsten performed a series of interviews with innovation journalists in Silicon Valley. Says Kirsten: "I thought they shared some norms and values, but I soon realized that journalists in a networked based society like Silicon Valley are as innovative as their environment, also when it comes to ethical questions. That was a surprise. Nobody had written about that before. So now I know what to investigate for the years to come."<div class="blogger-post-footer">David Nordfors is co-founder and executive director of the VINNOVA-Stanford Research Center of Innovation Journalism at Stanford University. He coined the concept of "Innovation Journalism" in 2003.</div>David Nordforshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17806293501450632730noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26872242.post-73673599116572365702010-10-26T04:10:00.000-07:002010-10-26T04:13:36.996-07:00Design, Innovation and Communication - Lecture at Lund University<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande';"></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Lund University</span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Ingvar Kamprad Design Center</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande';"><b>Prof. Larry Leifer, Stanford University</b></span></div><div class="p1" style="font-size: 11px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ3LNCH4YEqAfJpCX_eWhusJtFDNYiRFnSqwuqZhs2DW1ik8LBghyphenhyphentbB9Flp71By5xxOeC5VhuMsVtD5EAyHtb_TJWfIq9Um1rBAmLTIMk5Z_5y6XYujU3nRKt4epTY1GpZ61p/s1600/LTH_DesignInnovationCommunication.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ3LNCH4YEqAfJpCX_eWhusJtFDNYiRFnSqwuqZhs2DW1ik8LBghyphenhyphentbB9Flp71By5xxOeC5VhuMsVtD5EAyHtb_TJWfIq9Um1rBAmLTIMk5Z_5y6XYujU3nRKt4epTY1GpZ61p/s200/LTH_DesignInnovationCommunication.jpg" width="140" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande';"><b>Dr. David Nordfors, Stanford University</b></span></div><div class="p2" style="font-size: 11px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">Welcome!</span></div><div class="p1" style="font-size: 11px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">Andreas Larsson</span></div><div class="p1" style="font-size: 11px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">Associate Professor, Innovation Engineering</span></div><div class="p1" style="font-size: 11px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">Department of Design Sciences</span></div><div class="p1" style="font-size: 11px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">_____________________</span></div><div class="p1" style="font-size: 11px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">Prof. Larry Leifer is Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Center for Design </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">Research at Stanford University (http://cdr.stanford.edu/). He is also one of the co-founders of Hasso </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford (http://dschool.stanford.edu/). Larry and his team are </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">dedicated to facilitating individual creativity, understanding the team design process, and developing </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">advanced tools and methods that promote superior design and manufacturing of products.</span></div><div class="p2" style="font-size: 11px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
</span></div><div class="p1" style="font-size: 11px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">Dr. David Nordfors is Founding Executive Director of the Center for Innovation and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">Communication at Stanford University (http://injo.stanford.edu/), which among other things look at </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">how journalism and other communication influences innovation, how innovation influences </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">journalism and other communication, and the ability of journalism and other communication to </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">recognize and cover innovation. It involves looking at the connections between communication, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">formation of shared language, and innovation capacity.</span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">David Nordfors is co-founder and executive director of the VINNOVA-Stanford Research Center of Innovation Journalism at Stanford University. He coined the concept of "Innovation Journalism" in 2003.</div>David Nordforshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17806293501450632730noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26872242.post-26984842016312522112010-10-11T13:33:00.000-07:002010-10-11T13:33:05.710-07:00Finnish Call for InJo Fellowships at Stanford<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNxgCwQDLCKur0Wb33a7Gg7duwUUquoEthflCQNS39wyVGlc9_Q5cYGtK6SCFY4akwUn5VNtDVqtYXPpJ7rT2g8UGzQOhi7IsVL2FOH26ueceuwhsvuVqWRGd_hbWRBdiTazD-/s1600/hs-call-2011.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="123" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNxgCwQDLCKur0Wb33a7Gg7duwUUquoEthflCQNS39wyVGlc9_Q5cYGtK6SCFY4akwUn5VNtDVqtYXPpJ7rT2g8UGzQOhi7IsVL2FOH26ueceuwhsvuVqWRGd_hbWRBdiTazD-/s200/hs-call-2011.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>The Helsingin Sanomat Foundation call for Innovation Journalism Fellowships is online. If you are a Finnish journalist, interested in coming to Stanford for an InJo Fellowship in 2011, click <a href="http://www.hssaatio.fi/ajankohtaista/tiedotuksia/147-toimittajastipendien-haku.html">here</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">David Nordfors is co-founder and executive director of the VINNOVA-Stanford Research Center of Innovation Journalism at Stanford University. He coined the concept of "Innovation Journalism" in 2003.</div>David Nordforshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17806293501450632730noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26872242.post-74992008746825114082010-10-05T12:43:00.000-07:002010-10-05T17:35:51.545-07:00Stanford Daily Coverage of "Innovating the New Arab Woman"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiltBIBO6yuyJpxINOqz0WGFbzYjhWI-7rDzKmYHyQhoOJVfsayna2s2wDP-J9VHFyYt_JopgrwTV9X2QjmHM1yI536beGysfDyHpJnZwzh7yXD-Xc4SmAb2zDyaQHh7XHyRRF3/s1600/standforddaily-arabwoman.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiltBIBO6yuyJpxINOqz0WGFbzYjhWI-7rDzKmYHyQhoOJVfsayna2s2wDP-J9VHFyYt_JopgrwTV9X2QjmHM1yI536beGysfDyHpJnZwzh7yXD-Xc4SmAb2zDyaQHh7XHyRRF3/s320/standforddaily-arabwoman.jpg" width="209" /></a></div>The Stanford Daily covers Joumana Haddad's talk "Innovating the New Arab Woman" today - the article is <a href="http://www.stanforddaily.com/2010/10/05/haddad-discusses-the-new-arab-woman/">here</a>. The story gets most of page one in today's issue.<br />
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<blockquote>EXCERPT:<i> "Joumana Haddad, renowned Lebanese poet, journalist and founder and editor in chief of Jasad Magazine, the first erotic magazine in the Arab world, spoke Monday afternoon in Wallenberg Hall about the “new Arab woman” and her latest book, “I Killed Scheherazade: Confessions of an Angry Arab Woman”.</i></blockquote><blockquote><i>Joining Haddad on a panel were Esther Wojcicki, chairwoman of Creative Commons, Diana El-Azar, director of media, entertainment and information industries for the World Economic Forum, and Kirsten Mogenson, associate professor in journalism at Roskilde University. El-Azar and Mogenson served on the panel via webcam from Switzerland and Denmark, respectively.</i></blockquote><blockquote><i>The panel, co-organized by the Stanford Center for Innovation & Communication (SCIC) and the Center for Design Research and moderated by David Nordfors, founding executive of SCIC, began with Haddad reading a section of her book."</i></blockquote>Click <a href="http://www.stanforddaily.com/2010/10/05/haddad-discusses-the-new-arab-woman/">HERE</a> to read the whole story on the Stanford Daily website.<div class="blogger-post-footer">David Nordfors is co-founder and executive director of the VINNOVA-Stanford Research Center of Innovation Journalism at Stanford University. He coined the concept of "Innovation Journalism" in 2003.</div>David Nordforshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17806293501450632730noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26872242.post-71743968715808950912010-10-04T09:15:00.000-07:002010-10-04T09:15:45.940-07:00Livestream 4 Oct 2pm PST: Innovating the New Arab WomanClick <a href="http://www.innovationjournalism.org/injolive.mov">here</a> or on the picture below to view the livestream broadcast of our session on "Innovating the New Arab Woman" with Joumana Haddad. The broadcast is sent on Oct 4 at 2pm PST (22:00 GMT). (Fingers crossed!)<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Read more about the session <a href="http://blog.innovationjournalism.org/2010/09/innovating-new-arab-woman-panel.html">here</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">David Nordfors is co-founder and executive director of the VINNOVA-Stanford Research Center of Innovation Journalism at Stanford University. He coined the concept of "Innovation Journalism" in 2003.</div>David Nordforshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17806293501450632730noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26872242.post-53602590427771658892010-10-01T11:45:00.000-07:002010-10-01T14:04:19.145-07:00InJo Fellowships 2011<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://injo.stanford.edu/node/59"><img border="0" height="161" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivpY7cLdi8v1MkJbKnGOSFabXW0aLoGta_V8tKTcAH_Rl21lb2MYn9thV7oCCSd_pD6Et4aHIxx6uUYBmzznkVySaqIvpnZPRJ6mU12FB2ufamL1yl7_Ac64NTjsOBbA4b8jxH/s400/InnoJour_FELLOWS11+C_PMS.png" width="400" /></a></div><br />
We now have a draft of the InJo Fellowships at Stanford 2011, check it out: http://injo.stanford.edu/node/59<div class="blogger-post-footer">David Nordfors is co-founder and executive director of the VINNOVA-Stanford Research Center of Innovation Journalism at Stanford University. He coined the concept of "Innovation Journalism" in 2003.</div>David Nordforshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17806293501450632730noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26872242.post-90748790551100010322010-09-23T17:24:00.000-07:002010-09-30T10:00:25.429-07:00Innovating The New Arab Woman<div style="font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">When: 4 October 2010, 2pm - 3pm. </span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></span></b><br />
<div style="display: inline ! important; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><div style="display: inline ! important;"><b><b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Where: Stanford University, Wallenberg Hall</span></span><br />
</b></b></b></div></div></div><a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Joumana_Haddad.jpg/519px-Joumana_Haddad.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Joumana_Haddad.jpg/519px-Joumana_Haddad.jpg" width="172" /></a><i></i><br />
<i><i>Organized by <a href="http://injo.stanford.edu/">Stanford Center for Innovation and Communication</a></i><br />
<i>Co-organizer: <a href="http://cdr.stanford.edu/">Stanford Center for Design Research</a></i></i><br />
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<i><a href="http://cdr.stanford.edu/"></a><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Register to the event</span></b></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></b></span></span><a href="http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07e2zqsq2r7ecb84e2&llr=znjuaydab"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">here</span></b></span></span></a><br />
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Speaker</i>:<b> </b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joumana_haddad"><b>Joumana Haddad</b></a>, poet, editor-in-chief <a href="http://www.jasadmag.com/en/index.asp">Jasad Magazine</a>, author of "<a href="http://www.ikilledscheherazade.com/">I Killed Sheherazade</a>"<br />
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<i>Panelists</i>:<a href="https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AdN1qPao0jbYZGZoZ3piNTZfMWM4dms1emZi&hl=en#El_Azar_Diana_242645885715135_">Diana El-Azar</a>, Director of Media, Entertainment and Information Industries, World Economic Forum. <a href="http://dk.linkedin.com/in/kirstenmogensen">Kirsten Mogensen</a>, Associate Professor in Journalism, Roskilde University. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther_Wojcicki">Esther Wojcicki</a>, Journalist, Educator, Chairwoman Creative Commons<br />
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<i>Moderator</i>: <a href="http://injo.stanford.edu/node/127">David Nordfors</a>, Founding Executive Director, <a href="http://injo.stanford.edu/">Stanford Center for Innovation & Communication</a><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.jasadmag.com/en/cissue/covernew.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://www.jasadmag.com/en/cissue/covernew.jpg" width="153" /></a></div>Joumana Haddad will be speaking about the new Arab woman, different from the cliche presently dominating discussions around the world. In her latest book "I Killed Sheherazade" she takes a stand for a modern Arab woman who is equal to man, autonomous, feminine as well as intellectual and professional, the custodian of her own body and her own sexuality. Haddad sees woman and man as equal in power and influence, their relationships built on consensual agreement between independent individuals.<br />
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The panel discussion will cover both the New Arab Woman, as well as under which circumstances she can develop. Woman activists in the Arab world are today enabled by the Internet, cell phones and other technologies. Which types of innovations enable the new Arab woman? Which are the forces that can support the innovation processes that enable her?<br />
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More about Joumana Haddad:<br />
<ul><li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joumana_haddad">Wikipedia</a> </li>
<li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2010/aug/21/joumana-haddad-interview">Interview in the Guardian</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ikilledscheherazade.com/">I Killed Sheherazade (book)</a></li>
</ul><div class="blogger-post-footer">David Nordfors is co-founder and executive director of the VINNOVA-Stanford Research Center of Innovation Journalism at Stanford University. He coined the concept of "Innovation Journalism" in 2003.</div>David Nordforshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17806293501450632730noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26872242.post-16878061699392707972010-09-22T09:35:00.000-07:002010-09-22T09:36:00.905-07:00National Slovenian TV report from IJ-7<div class="separator" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><span id="goog_59255785"></span><span id="goog_59255788"></span><a href="http://www.rtvslo.si/pravaideja/novica/217"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVjHo35o9oSo5kO3aJR9R67Tp1g5h7ZLOnWVQBuT5TCszKHDgiTrfXrZguLZF9AtQsWKdwcnbKW9hNl26ZsZu-DIqEIIQ2sonJM9LMozLm6Rg4TI2hXiOgnHzwf99gRQDf9b6b/s320/rtvsloveniaij7.png" width="231" /></a><span id="goog_59255789"></span><span id="goog_59255786"></span></div><br />
Slovenian national public TV, RTV Slovenia,<a href="http://draft.blogger.com/"><span id="goog_59255791"></span> broadcast a reportage<span id="goog_59255792"></span></a> from <a href="http://ij7.innovationjournalism.org/">IJ-7</a>. The reportage is made by Eva Uranjek. It is in Slovenian, but nearly all the interviews are in English, so it's interesting to watch it, even if you don't understand Slovenian.<div class="blogger-post-footer">David Nordfors is co-founder and executive director of the VINNOVA-Stanford Research Center of Innovation Journalism at Stanford University. He coined the concept of "Innovation Journalism" in 2003.</div>David Nordforshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17806293501450632730noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26872242.post-63396240591992723102010-09-10T14:06:00.000-07:002010-10-01T14:05:56.819-07:00Announcing IJ-8 May 23-25 2011. Academic Track Call for Papers<div class="p1"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://injo.stanford.edu/node/203"><img border="0" height="152" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikGR-2G6mIaFOV-Z8-Z_Am35Aqir-13I02qS24H2BX_EmthR2Bf9Ah14KScRlyS21CmVVifeWR5x0GOqJOABQNwyjmkIGU2laq7qyATh3AV07wEqWbzKX00wis9tXdVO6HRSAh/s400/IJ-stanfordtree+ij-8+logo+w+date+and+place.png" width="400" /></a></div>Call for papers:</div><div class="p2"><br />
</div><div class="p2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Innovation, Journalism and Collective Intelligence</span></div><div class="p2"><br />
</div><div class="p2"><b>IJ-8 The Eight Conference on Innovation Journalism and CommunicationStanford Center for Innovation and Communication Stanford University, California.23-25 May 2011</b></div><div class="p2"><br />
</div><div class="p1">IJ-8 The Eight Conference on Innovation Journalism is a venue for researchers from many disciplines and institutions to present work and ideas relating to the interplay of journalism, communication and innovation ecosystems.</div><div class="p2"><br />
</div><div class="p1">IJ-8 is a meeting place for researchers and journalism/communication professionals to discuss the best ways of covering innovation in the news, or communicating innovation, the business of doing that work, and how innovation journalism and communication interacts with each other and with society.</div><div class="p2"><br />
</div><div class="p1">The conference welcomes a varied set of participants: Working journalists, policy-makers in innovation, academic researchers, faculty and research students in related areas of commerce, communication and journalism, and other professionals connected to the media industry.</div><div class="p2"><br />
</div><div class="p1">The Conference is hosted at Stanford University under the auspices of the<a href="http://injo.stanford.edu/"> Stanford Center for Innovation and Communication.</a> The Center for Innovation and Communication welcomes faculty and graduate student submissions on all topics related to innovation and communication. </div><div class="p2"><br />
</div><div class="p1">The Program Committee welcomes strong theoretical and empirical contributions without regard to particular methodological approach, professional context (including journalism, advertising, public relations, strategy and innovation, and the standard social science disciplines) and overall orientation of the research (theoretical, descriptive, philosophical, pedagogical, methodological or practical).</div><div class="p2"><br />
</div><div class="p1">“The Prinjos” –The Prizes for Best Innovation Journalism Conference Paper</div><div class="p1">The best papers in each of the following three categories will receive a recognition for “Best Paper at the Innovation Journalism Conference at Stanford 2011”:</div><div class="p1">1. The Grand Prinjo: best conference paper among all submissions.</div><div class="p1">2. The Junior Prinjo: best paper submitted by graduate students.</div><div class="p1">3. The Journalist Prinjo: best paper submitted by practitioners.</div><div class="p2"><br />
</div><div class="p1"><u>Manuscript Submission</u></div><div class="p1">Authors may submit full papers for double blind peer review before March 1, 2011. Papers should be between 5000 and 8000 words excluding bibliography and appendices. Please make the submission documents anonymous – author(s) identity must not be displayed. Please provide a separate page with paper title and an abstract of no more than 75 words; write name, affiliation and all contact information of the author(s) on that page with the abstract. Format should be Word, citations in Harvard Style. Paper and abstract must be sent as attachments in one email to IJ8-Uskali@innovationjournalism.org</div><div class="p2"><br />
</div><div class="p1"><u>The Review Process</u></div><div class="p1">All papers will undergo blind peer review. The review process is humane, including reasonable turnaround time on submissions and with firm but polite critique. Papers are reviewed in the order they are received and authors will receive answers as soon as the paper has been evaluated. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their papers at the Innovation Journalism Conference at Stanford University. Authors of rejected full papers are invited to participate in the conference without presenting their work.</div><div class="p2"><br />
</div><div class="p1"><u>Conference Fee</u></div><div class="p2"> The Conference fee is $250, including access to the conference, conference materials and refreshments.</div><div class="p1"><br />
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</div><div class="p1"><b>Main themes of IJ-8 Academic Track:</b></div><div class="p2">· The role of innovation journalism in ubiquitous society, and in the new era of internet of things.</div><div class="p2">· The influence of the real-time web and social media in innovation communication.</div><div class="p2">· How journalism and innovation interact in times of rapid change.</div><div class="p2">· Towards a systems view: Public attention and attention work in innovation communication ecosystems, the stakeholders and audiences, and the interaction between these elements.</div><div class="p2"><br />
</div><div class="p1"><u>Examples of research topics of interest:</u></div><div class="p2">· Professional norms, values, codes of ethics and principles of innovation journalism.</div><div class="p2">· How newsrooms and other professional organizations affect the coverage of innovation.</div><div class="p2">· Democracy and governance: The role of journalism in the innovation economy.</div><div class="p2">· Who sets the agenda for innovation journalism?</div><div class="p2">· Concept of attention work, the professional generation and brokering of attention.</div><div class="p2">· Concept of innovation communication systems; the flow of attention in innovation systems.</div><div class="p2">· How innovation processes and innovation ecosystems interact with public attention, with news media as an actor.</div><div class="p2">· Interdependencies between journalism and other actors in the innovation system.</div><div class="p2">· The roles of reputation and trust in the innovation ecosystem.</div><div class="p2">· Business Models for innovation journalism.</div><div class="p2">· Models of innovation and media, including firm, industry and economy-wide innovation systems.</div><div class="p2">· Governance, accountability and innovation in and by journalists and media actors.</div><div class="p2">· State of the art as well as theory and practice in the teaching of innovation journalism.</div><div class="p2">· Innovation journalism and feminism.</div><div class="p2"><br />
</div><div class="p1">Information about the conference and accepted papers will be posted on: <a href="http://injo.stanford.edu/">http://injo.stanford.edu</a>,</div><div class="p1"><a href="http://www.innovationjournalism.org/">http://www.innovationjournalism.org </a>, the general InJo site, and the conference site</div><div class="p1">http://ij8.innovationjournalism.org</div><div class="p2"><br />
</div><div class="p1"><b>Program Committee</b></div><div class="p1">IJ-8 Chair: David Nordfors, Executive Director, Stanford Center for Innovation and communication.</div><div class="p1">IJ-8Academic Program Chair: Kirsten Mogensen, Associate Professor, Roskilde University.</div><div class="p1">IJ-8 Academic Review & Publication Chair: Turo Uskali, University of Jyväskylä, Finland and Senior Research Scholar, Stanford Center for Innovation and Communication.</div><div class="p1">Dr. Ibrahim Saleh, Centre for Film & Media Studies, University of Cape Town</div><div class="p1"><br />
</div><div class="p1"><b>Program Committee Contact:</b></div><div class="p1">Professor Kirsten Mogensen: Mogensen@innovationjournalism.org</div><div class="p2"><br />
</div><div class="p1"><u>The Review Panel:</u></div><div class="p2">Professor Jari Ojala, Department of History and Ethnology, Uni of Jyväskylä.</div><div class="p2">Professor Antti Hautamäki, Agora center, University of Jyväskylä.</div><div class="p2">Professor Göte Nyman , University of Helsinki, Finland</div><div class="p2">Adjunct Professor Norm Meier, Boston University and President/Owner at the Catalyst-Global BCM Consortium, California</div><div class="p2">Research Director, Dr. Jari Kaivo-oja, , Finland Futures Research Centre, University of Turku, Finland</div><div class="p2">Associate Professor John Damm Scheuer, Roskilde University</div><div class="p2">Associate Professor Kirsten Mogensen, Roskilde University</div><div class="p2">Associate Professor Oddgeir Tveiten , University of Agder, Norge</div><div class="p2">Dr. Ibrahim Saleh, Centre for Film & Media Studies, University of Cape Town, South Africa</div><div class="p2">Dr. Fiona Martin, University of Sydney, Australia</div><div class="p2">Author, journalist Jane Jordan-Meier, President/Owner at Jane Jordan & Associates, California.</div><div class="p2">Doctoral student Kevin Perry, Roskilde University, Denmark.</div><div class="p2">Doctoral student Bettina Maisch, Institute for Media and Communication Management at University of St. Gallen, Schwitzerland.</div><div class="p2">Doctoral student Katrin Tobies, University of Leipzig Insitute for Communication and Media Management. </div><div class="blogger-post-footer">David Nordfors is co-founder and executive director of the VINNOVA-Stanford Research Center of Innovation Journalism at Stanford University. He coined the concept of "Innovation Journalism" in 2003.</div>David Nordforshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17806293501450632730noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26872242.post-52523280675945417402010-04-07T17:11:00.000-07:002010-04-07T17:18:07.455-07:00Slovenian Conference on Innovation Communication<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtHoZFFUDpQ34EbKiWrQ6JaTHQRGkmJL0PFWl3T6RtQapcdsirURj5UonrA9Yr4cfQCEyRZlw2832WEg-wEplaGfOCPAf5tWmpu4TwEyorXgf2_JP_PPsOVozLYnjP9gXmCBNoSw/s220/violeta.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 126px; height: 181px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtHoZFFUDpQ34EbKiWrQ6JaTHQRGkmJL0PFWl3T6RtQapcdsirURj5UonrA9Yr4cfQCEyRZlw2832WEg-wEplaGfOCPAf5tWmpu4TwEyorXgf2_JP_PPsOVozLYnjP9gXmCBNoSw/s220/violeta.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Some great news from Slovenia (I added links):<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">On Apr 7, 2010, at 13:08, <a href="http://www.violeta.si/">Violeta Bulc</a> wrote:</span><br /><blockquote>Ok.. tomorrow is a big day ... <a href="http://www.incomovement.si/inco-conference-2010">Slovenian Conference on Innovation communication</a> (one of the 4 tracks is innovation journalism).. we have 183 registered participants; we will also give away 27 awards in different categories for InJo for 2009. Rx, Violeta<br />ps; the new director of our the biggest daily newspaper (<a href="http://www.delo.si/">DELO</a>) has mentioned yesterday in his speech that the restructuring of the newspaper will be based on innovation journalism principles, fresh approach and new technologies</blockquote><div class="blogger-post-footer">David Nordfors is co-founder and executive director of the VINNOVA-Stanford Research Center of Innovation Journalism at Stanford University. He coined the concept of "Innovation Journalism" in 2003.</div>David Nordforshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17806293501450632730noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26872242.post-35496041104881036082010-03-21T04:49:00.000-07:002010-03-21T04:59:03.877-07:00Examples of Flavors of InJo<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.innovationjournalism.org/blog/uploaded_images/jobs-ipad-798475.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 236px; height: 320px;" src="http://www.innovationjournalism.org/blog/uploaded_images/jobs-ipad-798472.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><div>Here are some examples illustrating different types of InJo, all relating to the iPad launch. Note that this is very tech-slanted InJo. Remember that InJo can also be social/cultural/business-oriented. Innovation is the introduction of novelties, the process of transforming ideas into new value in society. Technology is an enabler, and sometimes - but far from always - the key driver of innovation.</div><div><br /></div><div>Here goes:</div><div><br /></div><div>1. <b>InJo covering the innovation release</b>. This story by <a href="http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/03/ipad-mania-hot-presales-ibooks-info-3g-model-semipopular.ars">Chris Foresman in arstechnica</a> is close to a product review, only it comes before the release, in the very last part of the innovation process, speculating on the product, the release and how it will affect Apple:</div><div><br /></div><div>2. <b>InJo covering the ability to innovate</b>, and the future directions. The story by <a href="http://blogs.computerworld.com/15750/apple_hires_senior_prototype_engineer_for_work_on_wearable_computers">Seth Weintraub in ComputerWorld Blogs</a>: Apple hires Richard De Vaul - specialist on wearable computers (e.g. computers embedded in clothes) - as "Senior Prototype Engineer". By interviewing De Vaul on his past we get a picture of Apple's possible future. The story gets traction from the iPad launch - as we are waiting for the iPad to come, we get curious about what may come after that.</div><div><br /></div><div>3.<b> InJo speculating on the future - columnist style</b>. Here is one of my favorites -<a href="http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-18438_7-10157857-82.html"> David Carnoy/CNET published this fictitious dialogue</a> between Amazon's Jeff Bezos and Apple's Steve Jobs upon the launch of the Kindle. It was a critical review of the design of the Kindle (published in the reviews section), but at a same time an early visionary speculation of the iPad. </div><div><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">David Nordfors is co-founder and executive director of the VINNOVA-Stanford Research Center of Innovation Journalism at Stanford University. He coined the concept of "Innovation Journalism" in 2003.</div>David Nordforshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17806293501450632730noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26872242.post-53353085269879534202010-03-14T19:38:00.000-07:002010-03-14T19:46:29.393-07:00Nokia chairman delivers Finnish InJo prizeThe chairman of Nokia and Royal Dutch Shell, Jorma Ollila, will deliver the Innovation Crystal prize awarded for a particularly well-produced innovation-related story in Helsinki, Finland on the 25th of March. This is the fourth time the Finnish Society for Innovation Journalism (<a href="http://www.finjo.fi/">www.finjo.fi</a>) arranges the competition that this year has attracted a record number of nominations. The event also marks a new momentum for Finjo that under its new chairman, Carl-Gustav Linden, a 2008 participant in the Innovation Journalism program at Stanford, is raising its profile in the debate on the future of this country with just over five million inhabitants.<br /><br />Finland is profiled as the world´s first country that implemented an Innovation Policy Program based on R&D and knowledge, as early as 1990. Finjo, founded three years ago, is another first; so far the only association in the world formally committed to Innovation Journalism, that is journalism about innovation and innovations in journalism. The word innovation is somewhat tainted by hype and rhetoric.<br /><br />“I think it´s easier to get the message through if we talk about renewal processes or social change. I also believe that the deep recession Finland and parts of the world is in right now makes the issue more urgent and people more responsive. It’s a sort of Finland 2.0 discourse”, says Carl-Gustav Linden who is a business writer and researcher at University of Helsinki.<br /><br />Finjo brings a broad variety of experts together –journalists, communication specialists, researchers, bureaucrats and business people for sharing thoughts on topics varying from the effects of social media to the R&D policy of the European Union. Openness is maybe one of the strongest assets of Finland and the rest of the Nordic countries, where Linux and MySQL are just two examples of where open and voluntary collaboration can lead.<br /><br />“Even though Finland has been ahead of the rest in forming innovation policy there is a need for politicization and democratization and I believe Finjo is be just the right venue for these discussions”, says Carl-Gustav Linden.<div class="blogger-post-footer">David Nordfors is co-founder and executive director of the VINNOVA-Stanford Research Center of Innovation Journalism at Stanford University. He coined the concept of "Innovation Journalism" in 2003.</div>David Nordforshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17806293501450632730noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26872242.post-79413536537749675012010-02-11T17:10:00.000-08:002010-03-07T13:57:17.015-08:00IJ-7 Academic Track - Call For Papers<!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center;line-height:normal;mso-outline-level:1"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DAfont-family:Georgia;font-size:12.0pt;">IJ-7 The Seventh Conference on Innovation Journalism<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center;line-height:normal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi- mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DAfont-family:Georgia;font-size:12.0pt;">Stanford University, Stanford CA<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center;line-height:normal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi- mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DAfont-family:Georgia;font-size:12.0pt;">June 7-9, 2010<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language: EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DAfont-family:Georgia;font-size:12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language: EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DAfont-family:Georgia;font-size:12.0pt;">IJ-7 The Seventh Conference on Innovation Journalism is a venue for researchers from many disciplines and institutions to present work and ideas relating to the interplay of journalism and other forms of communication in innovation ecosystems. IJ-7 is also a meeting place for researchers and journalism professionals to discuss the best ways of covering innovation in the news, the business of doing that work, and how innovation journalism interacts with society. The conference welcomes a varied set of participants: Working journalists, policy-makers in journalism and innovation, academic researchers, faculty and research students in related areas of commerce, communication and journalism, and other professionals connected to the media industry.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language: EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DAfont-family:Georgia;font-size:12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language: EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DAfont-family:Georgia;font-size:12.0pt;">The Conference is hosted at Stanford University under the auspices of the </span><span lang="DA"><a href="http://injo.stanford.edu/"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DAfont-family:Georgia;font-size:12.0pt;">Vinnova Stanford Research Center on Innovation Journalism</span></a></span><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US">. </span><span style="mso-bidi- mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DAfont-family:Georgia;font-size:12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The Innovation Journalism Center welcomes faculty and graduate student submissions on all topics related to communication and innovation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The Program Committee specifically welcomes strong theoretical and empirical contributions without regard to particular methodological approach, professional context (including journalism, advertising, public relations, strategy and innovation, and the standard social science disciplines) and overall orientation of the research (theoretical, descriptive, philosophical, pedagogical, methodological or practical). <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language: EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DAfont-family:Georgia;font-size:12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-outline-level:1"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="mso-bidi- mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DAfont-family:Georgia;font-size:12.0pt;">“The Prinjos” –The Prizes for Best Innovation Journalism Paper<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language: EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DAfont-family:Georgia;font-size:12.0pt;">The best papers in each of the following three categories will receive a recognition for “Best Paper at the Innovation Journalism Conference at Stanford 2010”:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language: EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DAfont-family:Georgia;font-size:12.0pt;">1. The Grand Prinjo: best conference paper among all submissions.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language: EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DAfont-family:Georgia;font-size:12.0pt;">2. The Junior Prinjo: best paper submitted by graduate students.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language: EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DAfont-family:Georgia;font-size:12.0pt;">3. The Journalist Prinjo: best paper submitted by practitioners.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-outline-level:1"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language:EN-US; mso-fareast-language:DAfont-family:Georgia;font-size:12.0pt;">Manuscript Submission<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language: EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DAfont-family:Georgia;font-size:12.0pt;">Authors may submit paper proposals or full papers. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language: DAfont-family:Georgia;font-size:12.0pt;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi- mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DAfont-family:Georgia;font-size:12.0pt;">Paper Proposal – 500-700 words. Open until April 1, 2010 <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language: DAfont-family:Georgia;font-size:12.0pt;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi- mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DAfont-family:Georgia;font-size:12.0pt;">Full Paper – max 25 pages excluding bibliography and appendices. Open until June 1, 2010.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language: EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DAfont-family:Georgia;font-size:12.0pt;">Please make the submission documents anonymous – author(s) identity must not be displayed. Please provide a separate page with paper title and an abstract of no more than 75 words; write name, affiliation and all contact information of the author(s) on that page with the abstract.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Format should be Word, citations in Harvard Style. Paper and abstract must be sent as attachments in one email to </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language: EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DAfont-family:Georgia;font-size:12.0pt;"><a href="mailto:IJ7-mogensen@stanford.edu">IJ7-mogensen@stanford.edu</a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-outline-level:1"><span style="mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DAfont-family:Georgia;font-size:12.0pt;">SUBMISSION OF PAPER PROPOSALS<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language: EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DAfont-family:Georgia;font-size:12.0pt;">If you want to test if your idea for a paper is welcomed by the Program Committee before undertaking the work of producing a paper, submit a paper proposal by April 1 and indicate that you would like to submit a complete paper. If our reviewers favor your proposal, you will receive an invitation to submit a paper before June 1. Your full paper will then be reviewed and given the status of either ‘reviewed paper’ or ‘paper in progress’ at the Conference.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language: EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DAfont-family:Georgia;font-size:12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-outline-level:1"><span style="mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DAfont-family:Georgia;font-size:12.0pt;">SUBMISSION OF FULL PAPERS<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language: EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DAfont-family:Georgia;font-size:12.0pt;">You may submit a paper directly, without first submitting a proposal. Your paper may be accepted as a ‘reviewed paper’, ‘paper in progress’, or – if it does not meet the criteria of the conference – ‘rejected’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Please submit full papers to </span><span style="mso-bidi- mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Georgia;font-size:12.0pt;">IJ7-mogensen@STANFORD.edu </span><span style="mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language:EN-US; mso-fareast-language:DAfont-family:Georgia;font-size:12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>any time before June 1, 2010.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language: EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DAfont-family:Georgia;font-size:12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language: EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DAfont-family:Georgia;font-size:12.0pt;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; ">The Review Process</span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language: EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DAfont-family:Georgia;font-size:12.0pt;">All papers will undergo blind peer review. The review process is humane, including reasonable turnaround time on submissions and firm but polite critique. Papers are reviewed in the order they are received and authors will receive answers as soon as the paper has been evaluated. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their papers at the Innovation Journalism Conference at Stanford University. Authors of rejected full papers are invited to participate in the conference without presenting their work. No conference fee is collected.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language: EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DAfont-family:Georgia;font-size:12.0pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-outline-level:1"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language:EN-US; mso-fareast-language:DAfont-family:Georgia;font-size:12.0pt;">Main themes of IJ-7 Academic Track:<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in; margin-left:27.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-9.0pt;line-height:normal; mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol; mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DAfont-family:Symbol;font-size:12.0pt;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language:EN-US; mso-fareast-language:DAfont-family:Georgia;font-size:12.0pt;">How journalism and innovation interact.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in; margin-left:27.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-9.0pt;line-height:normal; mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol; mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DAfont-family:Symbol;font-size:12.0pt;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language:EN-US; mso-fareast-language:DAfont-family:Georgia;font-size:12.0pt;">How journalism can cover innovation processes and innovation ecosystems.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in; margin-left:27.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-9.0pt;line-height:normal; mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol; mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DAfont-family:Symbol;font-size:12.0pt;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language:EN-US; mso-fareast-language:DAfont-family:Georgia;font-size:12.0pt;">Towards a systems view: Public attention and attention work in innovation communication ecosystems, the stakeholders and audiences, and the interaction between these elements.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in; margin-left:27.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-9.0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language:EN-US; mso-fareast-language:DAfont-family:Georgia;font-size:12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-outline-level:1"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language:EN-US; mso-fareast-language:DAfont-family:Georgia;font-size:12.0pt;">Examples of research topics of interest</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language:EN-US; mso-fareast-language:DAfont-family:Georgia;font-size:12.0pt;">:<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in; margin-left:27.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-9.0pt;line-height:normal; mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol; mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DAfont-family:Symbol;font-size:12.0pt;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language:EN-US; mso-fareast-language:DAfont-family:Georgia;font-size:12.0pt;">Professional norms, values, codes of ethics and principles of innovation journalism.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in; margin-left:27.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-9.0pt;line-height:normal; mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol; mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DAfont-family:Symbol;font-size:12.0pt;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language:EN-US; mso-fareast-language:DAfont-family:Georgia;font-size:12.0pt;">How newsrooms and other professional organizations affect the coverage of innovation.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in; margin-left:27.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-9.0pt;line-height:normal; mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol; mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DAfont-family:Symbol;font-size:12.0pt;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language:EN-US; mso-fareast-language:DAfont-family:Georgia;font-size:12.0pt;">Democracy and governance: The role of journalism in the innovation economy. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in; margin-left:27.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-9.0pt;line-height:normal; mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol; mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DAfont-family:Symbol;font-size:12.0pt;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language:EN-US; mso-fareast-language:DAfont-family:Georgia;font-size:12.0pt;">Concept of attention work, the professional generation and brokering of attention.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in; margin-left:27.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-9.0pt;line-height:normal; mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol; mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DAfont-family:Symbol;font-size:12.0pt;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language:EN-US; mso-fareast-language:DAfont-family:Georgia;font-size:12.0pt;">Concept of innovation communication systems; the flow of attention in innovation systems.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in; margin-left:27.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-9.0pt;line-height:normal; mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol; mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DAfont-family:Symbol;font-size:12.0pt;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language:EN-US; mso-fareast-language:DAfont-family:Georgia;font-size:12.0pt;">How innovation processes and innovation ecosystems interact with public attention, with news media as an actor.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in; margin-left:27.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-9.0pt;line-height:normal; mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol; mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DAfont-family:Symbol;font-size:12.0pt;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language:EN-US; mso-fareast-language:DAfont-family:Georgia;font-size:12.0pt;">Interdependencies between journalism and other actors in the innovation system.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in; margin-left:27.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-9.0pt;line-height:normal; mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol; mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DAfont-family:Symbol;font-size:12.0pt;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language:EN-US; mso-fareast-language:DAfont-family:Georgia;font-size:12.0pt;">The roles of reputation and trust in the innovation ecosystem.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in; margin-left:27.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-9.0pt;line-height:normal; mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol; mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DAfont-family:Symbol;font-size:12.0pt;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language:EN-US; mso-fareast-language:DAfont-family:Georgia;font-size:12.0pt;">Business Models for innovation journalism.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in; margin-left:27.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-9.0pt;line-height:normal; mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol; mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DAfont-family:Symbol;font-size:12.0pt;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language:EN-US; mso-fareast-language:DAfont-family:Georgia;font-size:12.0pt;">Models of innovation and media, including firm, industry and economy-wide innovation systems.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in; margin-left:27.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-9.0pt;line-height:normal; mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol; mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DAfont-family:Symbol;font-size:12.0pt;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language:EN-US; mso-fareast-language:DAfont-family:Georgia;font-size:12.0pt;">Governance, accountability and innovation in and by journalists and media actors.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in; margin-left:27.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-9.0pt;line-height:normal; mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol; mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DAfont-family:Symbol;font-size:12.0pt;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language:EN-US; mso-fareast-language:DAfont-family:Georgia;font-size:12.0pt;">State of the art as well as theory and practice in the teaching of innovation journalism.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in; margin-left:27.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-9.0pt;line-height:normal; mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol; mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DAfont-family:Symbol;font-size:12.0pt;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language:EN-US; mso-fareast-language:DAfont-family:Georgia;font-size:12.0pt;">Innovation journalism and feminism.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in; margin-left:21.3pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-21.3pt;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language:EN-US; mso-fareast-language:DAfont-family:Georgia;font-size:12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language: EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DAfont-family:Georgia;font-size:12.0pt;">Information about the conference and accepted papers will be posted on:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span lang="DA" style="font-family:Georgia;"><a href="http://www.innovationjournalism.org/"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DAfont-size:12.0pt;">http://www.innovationjournalism.org</span></a></span><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Georgia;"> , the general InJo site, and the forthcoming conference sites<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Georgia;"><a href="http://ij7.innovationjournalism.org/"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES">http://ij7.innovationjournalism.org</span></a></span><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language:ES;font-family:Georgia;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>alias </span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;font-family:Georgia;"><a href="http://ij7.stanford.edu/"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES">http://ij7.stanford.edu</span></a></span><span style=" mso-ansi-language:ES;font-family:Georgia;"> </span><span lang="ES" style="mso-bidi- mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:DAfont-family:Georgia;font-size:12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-bidi- mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:DAfont-family:Georgia;font-size:12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-bidi- mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:DAfont-family:Georgia;font-size:12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-outline-level:1"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="mso-bidi- mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DAfont-family:Georgia;font-size:12.0pt;">Program Committee<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language: EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DAfont-family:Georgia;font-size:12.0pt;">IJ-7 Chair: David Nordfors, Executive Director, VINNOVA-Stanford Research Center of Innovation Journalism.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language: EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DAfont-family:Georgia;font-size:12.0pt;">IJ-7 Academic Track Chair: Kirsten Mogensen, Visiting InJo Researcher, Stanford University and Associate Professor, Roskilde University.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language: EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DAfont-family:Georgia;font-size:12.0pt;">Turo Uskali, University of Jyväskylä, Finland and Senior Research Scholar. VINNOVA Stanford Center.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language: EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DAfont-family:Georgia;font-size:12.0pt;">Marc Ventresca, University Lecturer in Strategy, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford; Senior Research Scholar, VINNOVA Stanford Center; and Research Faculty, Global Public Policy, Naval Postgraduate School</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language: EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DAfont-family:Georgia;font-size:12.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; ">Doctoral Student<i> </i>Bettina Maisch, Institute for Media and Communication Management at University of St.Gallen andVisiting Researcher, Center for Design Research at Stanford</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language: EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DAfont-family:Georgia;font-size:12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-outline-level:1"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language:EN-US; mso-fareast-language:DAfont-family:Georgia;font-size:12.0pt;">Program Committee Contact:<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-outline-level:1"><span style="mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DAfont-family:Georgia;font-size:12.0pt;">Professor Kirsten Mogensen: kirstenm@stanford.edu<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language: EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DAfont-family:Georgia;font-size:12.0pt;">Visiting Innovation Journalism Researcher<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language: EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DAfont-family:Georgia;font-size:12.0pt;">Vinnova-Stanford Research Center of Innovation Journalism, Stanford University.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <!--EndFragment--><div class="blogger-post-footer">David Nordfors is co-founder and executive director of the VINNOVA-Stanford Research Center of Innovation Journalism at Stanford University. He coined the concept of "Innovation Journalism" in 2003.</div>David Nordforshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17806293501450632730noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26872242.post-66466982432714290702010-01-30T11:19:00.000-08:002010-01-30T12:22:22.006-08:00InJo TV Series Wins "Brand of the Year"InJo is a concept for successful journalism. I have been saying it since I coined the concept, and I have often had to argue for my case.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.innovationjournalism.org/blog/stanford-injo-samaa-release.pdf"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 202px; height: 181px;" src="http://www.innovationjournalism.org/blog/uploaded_images/stanford-injo-samaa-release-730946.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />SAMAA TV in Pakistan embraced the Innovation Journalism journalism concept and started the series "INNOVATION" in 2009. That InJo series has now been awarded "Brand of the Year", beating +500 innovation brands from all industries, winning both the consumer vote and the expert panel ranking. It's the first time a journalistic product wins the award. On top of that, SAMAA won the Corporate Social Responsibility award, an achievement SAMAA says happened due to its InJo approach.<br /><br />Congratulations to Amir Jahangir, CEO of SAMAA TV, Shahray Zariff, Executive Producer of the INNOVATION series, and Fatima Akhtar, anchor and team member of the show, who will be an InJo Fellow 2010 at Stanford.<br /><br />SAMAA's success tells us some things:<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">1. INJO IS POPULAR JOURNALISM</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">2. INJO CAN BE CENTRAL IN INNOVATION SYSTEMS</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />3. INJO WORKS IN EMERGING ECONOMIES</span><br /><br />The<a href="http://news.stanford.edu/news/2010/january25/innovation-pakistan-award-012610.html"> Stanford news release</a> is here below, followed by the <a href="http://www.samaa.tv/PressReleaseDetails.aspx?ID=64#">SAMAA release</a>. Here is an introductory video of the award winning INNOVATION InJo TV series (in English):<br /><br /><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/66hy7_l3nUU&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/66hy7_l3nUU&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"></embed></object><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">STANFORD UNIVERSITY NEWS SERVICE</span><br />Jan 26 2010.<br />(<a href="http://news.stanford.edu/news/2010/january25/innovation-pakistan-award-012610.html">Here</a> is the news release on Stanford's news web. <a href="http://www.blogger.com/stanford-injo-samaa-release.pdf">Here</a> is a copy in PDF)<br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Collaboration between Stanford Innovation Journalism Center and a Pakistani TV station honored </span><p style="font-style: italic;">The award-winning program "Innovation" is dedicated to identifying innovation in all aspects of Pakistani life, and has covered issues ranging from alternative energy to mobile banking.</p> BY AIMEE MILES<br /><br />A collaborative effort between the Vinnova Stanford Research Center of <a href="http://injo.stanford.edu/">Innovation Journalism</a> and a Pakistani television station, SAMAA TV, is receiving an <a href="http://www.tvexplore.com/2010/01/samaa-tvs-program-becomes-the-brand-of-the-year-2009/">award</a> for its role in bringing local issues of innovative development to the forefront of public awareness in Pakistan.<br /><p><br />"Innovation," a television program featured on SAMAA, was named "Brand of the Year 2009" in a category recognizing products and services that sharpen public focus on processes of innovation and competitiveness in Pakistan. The series beat out more than 500 competitors from various industries in a nationwide judging that included a consumer survey and an expert panel analysis. Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani is scheduled to present the award in February.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://news.stanford.edu/news/2010/january25/gifs/injo_news.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 247px; height: 154px;" src="http://news.stanford.edu/news/2010/january25/gifs/injo_news.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />The idea for the television series was conceived by the CEO of SAMAA TV, Amir Jahangir, who sits on an advisory board for the Innovation Journalism Center (also known as the "InJo" Center) at Stanford. The<br />series is dedicated to identifying innovation in all aspects of Pakistani life, and has covered issues ranging from alternative energy to mobile banking.<br /><br />"[The Pakistanis] have created something of theirs with information and advice from us that has created a new model of media programming there that adds something to traditional journalism," said David Nordfors, founding executive director of the InJo Center. "It's a young, progressive, innovative and politically moderate TV company."<br /></p><div><span>"[Jahangir] decided that SAMAA should start an Innovation Journalism TV series, that shouldn't be only about gadgets or only about business or technology, but look at how business, technology, and politics interact, about how innovation happens, and identify different actors in the ecosystem and get the whole picture. SAMAA's producer Shahray Zariff and her team did an excellent job in setting that up."</span></div><p>Nordfors identified the collaboration as a promising example of positive U.S.-Pakistani relations.<br /><br />Four Pakistani journalists come to Stanford each year as InJo fellows, funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The objective of the fellowship is to train international journalists to cover the innovation economy and network with U.S. media outlets. Fellows participate in workshops and conferences at Stanford and work with newsrooms across the nation covering issues relating to innovation. Fatima Akhtar, anchor and team member of the award-winning SAMAA series, will begin a five-month fellowship at the InJo Center in February.<br /><br />"Pakistan used to be a very closed country — almost all journalism in Pakistan is about Pakistan, for Pakistani people. They've actually started taking in InJo fellows from other areas of the world as expert<br />commentators," said Nordfors. "It's very nice to see that it actually turned out to be a smash hit because this is really a new creature in Pakistani journalism."</p><p> </p>The first innovation journalism program started at Stanford in 2004, Nordfors said. "Our network today includes funded innovation journalism initiatives in Sweden, Finland, Slovenia, Mexico, Pakistan, Israel and the EU — all connected to the center at Stanford," he said.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">SAMAA TV Press Release</span><br />(<a href="http://www.samaa.tv/PressReleaseDetails.aspx?ID=64#">Here</a> is the release on SAMAA's web, <a href="http://www.innovationjournalism.org/blog/SAMAA-injo-award-release.pdf">here</a> is a copy in PDF)<br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">"INNOVATION" receives BRAND OF THE YEAR, 2009 Award</span><br /><br />Upadated on: 27 Jan 10 07:40 AM<br /><br />Islamabad, 25th January – “Innovation,” a television program featured on SAMAA TV, one of Pakistan’s leading Urdu news channels has been named “Brand of the Year 2009” in a category recognizing products and services that sharpen public focus on processes of innovation and competitiveness in Pakistan.<br /><br />The program, a joint collaboration between the Vinnova-Stanford Research Center of Innovation Journalism (INJO) at Stanford University and SAMAA TV beat out more than 500 other competitors from various industries in a nationwide consumer survey and an expert panel analysis. SAMAA will be receiving the award by Prime Minister Mr. Yousaf Raza Gilani in an event scheduled in February.<br />The award is being given to SAMAA for launching Pakistan’s first dedicated program on innovation and for establishing the genre as an important journalistic beat in Pakistan. The Program has been recognized as the key source through which the journalistic coverage of innovation processes and ecosystems in Pakistan has been integrated into the national socio-economic development plan. The program has also been applauded for playing a leading role in bringing local issues of innovative development to the forefront of public awareness in Pakistan.<br /><br />Speaking to Amir Jahangir, Chief Executive Officer of SAMAA TV, he said “The program success is based on hard work and a great network of INJO fellows across the world, who through their expertise has been advising on the program content, sharing research, commenting on innovation topics and providing solutions through their input and views. Due to this collaboration, the content of our program has been acknowledged as being credible, containing relevant issues and making efforts in bringing together the relevant stakeholders of each industry to find innovative measures to cater the society needs”.<br /><br />Mr. Jahangir further said that “The global development has made our world smaller and our communication more effective. We want to bring innovation to the homes of every Pakistani citizen, so that their awareness and ability to be innovative is nurtured. Our future lies in the hands of innovation and for that we need to prepare a workforce which not only knows how to be innovative but also how to link it to the economic development”.<br /><br />Amir Jahangir also shared that SAMAA is the only media channel in Pakistan, which has been recognized both national as well as internationally for being a responsible business operator using innovation journalism techniques as part of business strategy. This acknowledgement was given to SAMAA by the Asian Forum for Corporate Social Responsibility, who awarded SAMAA the Asian CSR Excellence Award 2009 as the only channel in Asia, for being a responsible business operator creating value for its viewers and empowering marginalized communities for a better tomorrow. SAMAA has also recently won the National CSR Excellence Award 2009, which no channel has received so far.<br /><br />Dr. David Nordfors, Co-Founder and Executive Director of the VINNOVA-Stanford Research Center of Innovation Journalism coined the term “Innovation Journalism” in 2003. Dr. Nordfors said that “SAMAA has proven the viability for the Innovation Journalism as a genre in Pakistan, and emerging economies. This award is not alone a milestone for SAMAA TV but also for the Innovation Journalism Initiative at Stanford ”. He said that by being the first, SAMAA TV is leading the way for other media channels both in Pakistan as well as across the world.<br />Dr. David Nordfors specially acknowledged Amir Jahangir, CEO SAMAA TV for the strong leadership and commitment in bringing innovation to the Pakistani media. Mr. Nordfors said that Mr. Jahangir’s strong belief in linking innovation to economic development would play a crucial role in creating a new ecosystem in the Pakistan economy.<br /><br />The program series is dedicated to identifying innovation in all aspects of Pakistani life, and has covered issues ranging from alternative energy to mobile banking.<br />Mr. Arif Allauddin, CEO Alternative Energy Development Board also appreciated SAMAA TVs program stating that “ it was the first of its kind show which showcased how different countries are addressing their energy needs using alternative energy -Thus, giving the Government of Pakistan the opportunity to learn and benefit from their experiences and serve as guidelines for us”. He said that the program has been engaging InJo fellows across the world and coming up with global solutions to local issues, which are required more now than ever, as Pakistan continues to face immense challenges in providing quality education, primary healthcare, energy supply and employment opportunities for youth.<br /><br />The INJO program at Stanford University focus on building the capacity of media professionals to report on innovation, develop interaction between journalism and innovation, including how innovation is changing the profession and business of journalism, how to cover innovation in the news, and how journalism links innovation with society. Four Pakistani journalists come to Stanford each year as InJo fellows. The objective of the fellowship is to train international journalists to cover the innovation economy and network with US media outlets. Fellows participate in workshops and conferences at Stanford and work with newsrooms across the nation covering issues relating to innovation.<br /><br />SAMAA TV is one of Pakistan’s leading private satellite television channels, which takes pride in its fair, factual and independent news coverage through its on-the-hour bulletins, breaking stories, incisive political analysis and current affairs programs. The channel is the first media channel is Pakistan to have established a well-integrated Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Program as part of it business activities.<br /><br />The channel has also made a niche for itself through its programs on women and youth issues besides infotainment and sports. SAMAA TV, launched in December 2007 has network of district correspondents and five bureaus across Pakistan along with international stringers in the Middle East, Europe and North America.<br />© SAMAA TV - 2008<div class="blogger-post-footer">David Nordfors is co-founder and executive director of the VINNOVA-Stanford Research Center of Innovation Journalism at Stanford University. He coined the concept of "Innovation Journalism" in 2003.</div>David Nordforshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17806293501450632730noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26872242.post-25685058357274612072010-01-13T17:12:00.000-08:002010-01-13T17:16:28.201-08:00Future Talk TV Show on The Future of JournalismThe future of journalism in light of the new electronic media. Host Martin Wasserman interviews David Nordfors, director of the Center for Innovation Journalism, and Tony Deifell, director of Q Media Labs.<br /><br /><embed src="http://blip.tv/play/AYG8kCAC" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="350" height="284" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed><div class="blogger-post-footer">David Nordfors is co-founder and executive director of the VINNOVA-Stanford Research Center of Innovation Journalism at Stanford University. He coined the concept of "Innovation Journalism" in 2003.</div>David Nordforshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17806293501450632730noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26872242.post-63667368970961624882010-01-08T09:50:00.001-08:002010-01-08T11:56:20.438-08:00HOLD THE DATES 7-11 JUNE 2010. JI@ST Conference Cluster at Stanford: IJ-7 + JTM<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">(The original, always up-to-date, version of this page <a href="http://docs.google.com/View?id=dhdcpdtz_25gd7mhhkq">is here</a>)</span></div><b><div><br /></div>JI@ST - A Conference Cluster about Journalism and Innovation:</b><div><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">IJ-7: The Seventh Conference on Innovation Journalism, June 7-9 2010</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">JTM - Journalism That Matters, June 9-11 2010</span></li></ul>Both conferences are held at Stanford University.<br /><br />These back-to-back conferences will take a thorough look on journalism in the innovation economy. The conferences are open for all types of participants with an interest in journalism and innovation. We are looking forward to an active, results-oriented discussion between people of different professions and views. (More details below.)<br /><br />To receive calls for participation and registration, <a id="p4u4" href="http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=dHNGSVJNeUlxZmtLMy1ZSHZLczdmQ2c6MA" target="_blank" title="sign up here"> sign up here </a> (This is not the conference registration. The registration will come later this spring.)<br /><p></p><div></div><h2>IJ-7 - The Seventh Conference on Innovation Journalism</h2><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 73px;" src="http://www.innovationjournalism.org/blog/uploaded_images/ijX-759551.jpg" alt="" border="0" /><p>Organized by the <a id="b:fd" href="http://injo.stanford.edu/" target="_blank" title="VINNOVA-Stanford Research Center on Innovation Journalism at Stanford University">VINNOVA-Stanford Research Center on Innovation Journalism at Stanford University</a></p></span><p><span style="font-size:100%;">Key topics:</span></p><p><span style="font-size:100%;">- HOW JOURNALISM AFFECTS INNOVATION</span></p><p><span style="font-size:100%;">- HOW INNOVATION AFFECTS JOURNALISM</span></p><p><span style="font-size:100%;">- THE ABILITY OF JOURNALISM TO COVER INNOVATION</span></p><p><span style="font-size:100%;">The conference includes keynotes, presentations and workshops. We have a multi-stakeholder approach, welcoming all types of scholars and professionals to take part in a discussion on the role of journalism in the innovation economy. The participants in this conference come from all over the world, due to the international character of the program.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:100%;">A large part of the conference will be organized by the Innovation Journalism Fellows, who begin their Fellowships at Stanford in Feb 2010. The Fellows this year c</span></p><p><span style="font-size:100%;">ome from Sweden, Finland, Pakistan, Mexico and Slovenia. Like all earlier years, the conference program will emerge in March-May.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:100%;">The conference is like in 2009 scheduled to present an academic track, where researchers will present papers. All IJ-7 participants are welcome to sit in on the research presentations.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:100%;">Check out the website of our previous </span><a id="c83r" href="http://ij6.innovationjournalism.org/" target="_blank" title="IJ-6 conference"><span style="font-size:100%;">IJ-6 conference</span></a><span style="font-size:100%;"> and the </span><a id="pjku" href="http://ij6ac.innovationjournalism.org/" target="_blank" title="IJ-6 conference academic track"><span style="font-size:100%;">IJ-6 conference academic track</span></a><span style="font-size:100%;">.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:100%;">Registration will open probably in March.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:100%;">Keep up to date here on the </span><a id="tlkc" href="http://www.innovationjournalism.org/blog" target="_blank" title="Innovation Journalism Blog"><span style="font-size:100%;">Innovation Journalism Blog</span></a><span style="font-size:100%;"> a<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-size:100%;">nd the </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a id="alp0" href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2435366029&ref=ts" target="_blank" title="Innovation Journalism Facebook Group">Innovation Journalism Facebook Group</a></span></span></span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size:100%;"><a id="alp0" href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2435366029&ref=ts" target="_blank" title="Innovation Journalism Facebook Group"></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-size:21px;" >JTM - Journalism That Matters</span></span></p><div><span style="font-size:100%;"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 353px; height: 110px;" src="http://www.innovationjournalism.org/blog/uploaded_images/zen_classic_logo-749835.jpg" alt="" border="0" /><div><a id="f3t5" href="http://journalismthatmatters.org/" target="_blank" title="JOURNALISM THAT MATTERS">JOURNALISM THAT MATTERS</a> hosts conversations about the emerging news ecology among the diverse ecosystem of journalism – reporters, editors, publishers, videographers, photographers, media educators, reformers, volunteer journalists, and audience; from print, broadcast, and online media, both mainstream and entrepreneurial. </div><div><br /></div><div>It is a community of media innovators and stakeholders that blazes paths and builds bridges to a new news ecology. We convene, connect, and inspire the diverse, engaged citizens who are molding and leading the media of tomorrow.</div><div><br /></div><div>Using the un-conference format, we will explore <b>What do we know and what do we want to know at the intersection of journalism and innovation?</b><br /><br />Conference sessions could explore questions such as: Given the state of the industry, WHAT’s possible now? WHO are the new journalists? HOW are stories chosen? HOW are they told? WHAT kind of change is productive? WHO can the public trust? WHAT is the role of journalism in connecting people and community? WHERE can editors find qualified contributors and information with increasingly diminished budgets? WHAT new technological sources are reliable? WHERE is the new newsroom? WHEN are beat blogs, twittering and social networks best utilized? WHY is transparency so important? HOW do we maintain transparency and accountability while protecting sources?</div><div><br /></div><div>Check out the website of our <a id="nvmu" href="http://journalismthatmatters.org/JTM-PNW" target="_blank" title="January JTM - Re-Imagining News & Community in the Pacific NorthWest">January JTM - Re-Imagining News & Community in the Pacific NorthWest</a></div></span></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">David Nordfors is co-founder and executive director of the VINNOVA-Stanford Research Center of Innovation Journalism at Stanford University. He coined the concept of "Innovation Journalism" in 2003.</div>David Nordforshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17806293501450632730noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26872242.post-77254594215010807092009-12-31T09:45:00.000-08:002011-04-01T18:33:39.361-07:00Prisoners Dilemma at COP15 in Copenhagen; Meanwhile in Mei Lin's Kitchen<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Doug Engelbart and David Nordfors</td></tr>
</tbody></table><span style="font-size: 85%;">(This blog post was <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-nordfors/prisoners-dilemma-at-cop1_b_408522.html">published by Huffington Post 31 Dec 2009</a>)</span><br />
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On December 9, world leaders debated global climate in <a href="http://en.cop15.dk/" target="_hplink">Copenhagen</a> and Obama was in Oslo to <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-acceptance-nobel-peace-prize" target="_hplink">accept his Nobel</a>. I was sharing a glass of wine with Doug Engelbart, father of personal computing as we know it, in the kitchen of Mei Lin Fung, Doug's long-time friend, in Palo Alto. It was a potluck dinner, shoes off, sparing Mei Lin's floors. I sensed links. Half a world away, people were commemorating the world's biggest problems, preparing for gala dinners, while we toasted the birth of perhaps the most powerful tool in human hands, sitting in that cozy kitchen among people who had made it happen.<br />
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Doug was guest of honor. In San Francisco, on Dec 9 1968, his '<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos" target="_hplink">Mother of All Demos</a>' gave birth to the modern PC: Doug and his SRI team, with chief engineer Bill English, demo'ed for the first time personal computing as we recognize it today, showing the first computer mouse, interactive text, video conferencing, teleconferencing, email, hypertext and a collaborative real-time editor.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mei Lin Fung</td></tr>
</tbody></table>While Obama was receiving his Nobel, the Copenhagen Climate Conference was becoming a <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5BM4DO20091223" target="_hplink">giant prisoners' dilemma</a>. If all cut emissions, all win. If nobody cuts, all lose. If some cut but not others, non-cutters win more than cutters. Which courageous leader will commit first? As fictional Jim Hacker, Minister of Administrative Affairs in the political satire 'Yes, Minister' <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Yes-Prime-Minister/dp/0563207736/" target="_hplink">says</a>: "Courageous? I don't want to do anything <em>courageous</em>! That's the kind of thing that ends careers." Swedish PM Fredrik Reinfeldt's was <a href="http://www.svd.se/nyheter/utrikes/reinfeldt-den-som-vill-minst-satter-farten_3968359.svd" target="_hplink">not happy</a>: "Who sets the speed of progress? The least ambitious."<br />
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When groups face common problems, power goes to those who must agree for anything to happen. Often their political power and the value of their 'OK' grows as they hold out--supply and demand. If the problem is bad and people want their 'OK' they say 'Well, first YOU must [insert demads here].' They may be conscientious, backed by their constituencies, so it might not seem immoral. Leaders build power, stature and wealth for their followers by gatekeeping. Some may get a Nobel, others may end up in the International Criminal Court in the Hague. The need for consensus breeds gatekeeping. That's the game.<a href="http://www.innovationjournalism.org/blog/uploaded_images/engelbart-749273-771098.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.innovationjournalism.org/blog/uploaded_images/engelbart-749273-770947.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 248px; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 186px;" /></a><br />
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Back to Mei Lin's kitchen. It might be closer to the solution than banquet halls in world capitals. The name 'Mother of All Demos' came later. The actual name marking the birth of real personal computing was 'a research center for augmenting human intellect.' Doug's idea was not to make computers smarter, it was to help people be smarter. Computers had been about automation, replacing but not augmenting intellect. Doug was lucky, a chosen researcher supported by J.C.R. 'Lick' <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_C_R_Licklider" target="_hplink">Licklider</a> at ARPA, the visionary accredited for planting the seeds of computing in the digital age. Normal funders disdained people like Doug: the ideas did not fit their funding.<br />
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Lick coined the "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergalactic_Computer_Network" target="_hplink">intergalactic computer network</a>," a vision of computers collaborating. The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tcp/ip" target="_hplink">Internet protocol</a> that enabled it was invented by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vint_Cerf" target="_hplink">Vint Cerf</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Kahn" target="_hplink">Bob Kahn</a>. Vint - often referred to as 'father of the Internet' - is today at Google, still reforming civilization.<br />
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Doug hosted the second node of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arpanet" target="_hplink">Arpanet</a>, the predecessor of the Internet, at his SRI center, believing that by networking PCs humanity could improve its 'collective intelligence' and solve tougher problems: such as avoid nuclear wars, stop pandemics and solve environmental issues. Solutions via traditional multilateral agreements may be hard: they engender gatekeeping, brinkmanship and cheating on agreements.<br />
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But through improved PCs and the Internet, it is easier to innovate, to introduce game-changing novelties, that can bypass obstacles to getting things done. If gatekeepers disagree, innovate and re-design the game to work without them. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Doug Engelbart and Bill English<br />
Bill is holding the Google Phone</td></tr>
</tbody></table>This is happening in IT, including music, entertainment and media, not the least journalism. For example, Creative Commons is an innovation of copyright in the digital age. HuffPo blogger<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/esther-wojcicki" target="_hplink">Ester Wojcicki</a>, Chairwoman of <a href="http://creativecommons.org/" target="_hplink">Creative Commons</a>, as well as the Palo Alto High School Teacher of Mei Lin's daughter among other kids, was also with us at Mei Lin's this evening.<br />
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Voices--including<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/20/opinion/20friedman.html?_r=2" target="_hplink"> Thomas Friedman's</a>--are saying that innovation, not multilateral regulation, should drive the climate issue. The ideal: a balance between innovation and regulation. Necessary international agreements can be driven by the innovation ecosystem, putting gatekeepers at risk of being bypassed. And international agreements can enable the innovation ecosystem, through creating incentives.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">David Nordfors</td></tr>
</tbody></table>Given the impact of personal computers and the Internet on humanity, I was struck by the intimacy in Mei Lin's kitchen vs. the grandeur of the manifestations of the world's problems in Oslo and Copenhagen. As Copenhagen opened our eyes to the difficulties of creating consensus in a cynical world, perhaps in 2010 meetings in kitchens and garage startups will be equally important to multilateral negotiations in large congress centers. One could leverage the other.<br />
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PS. The achievement of 'the Mother of All Demos' was astonishing. Mei Lin: "That demo was never supposed to work." It might not have if not for Bill English. Bill was there, showing his new cell phone. Later it became known that Google had given beta versions of its own Android to selected people (Bill probably among them). Did anyone in Oslo or Copenhagen get one?<div class="blogger-post-footer">David Nordfors is co-founder and executive director of the VINNOVA-Stanford Research Center of Innovation Journalism at Stanford University. He coined the concept of "Innovation Journalism" in 2003.</div>David Nordforshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17806293501450632730noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26872242.post-92127968172185539052009-12-11T15:27:00.000-08:002009-12-11T15:35:42.822-08:00Slovenian InJo-InCo 2009 Manifesto<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.innovationjournalism.si/en/page.php?38"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 269px;" src="http://www.incogibanje.si/upload/manifesto2009cover.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Violeta Bulc's Vibacom have released the <a href="http://www.innovationjournalism.si/en/page.php?38">InJo-InCo 2009 Manifesto</a>, the project is lead by Estera Lah P0ljak. The publication is in Slovenian, there is a summary in English <a href="http://www.innovationjournalism.si/en/page.php?38">here</a>. It starts like this:<br /><blockquote>"Identifying significant events and projects, becoming aware of their importance in time and space, critically assessing their advantages and challenges, capturing responses of different stakeholders, proposing initiatives and future activities. These were our guidelines in drafting<br />the second issue of our annual publication, the InJo-InCo Manifesto 2009. All of the above is also included in the principles of innovation journalism, from which the InCo movement as a business-civil initiative was initiated and grew into wider innovation communication projects interconnecting different stakeholders of the innovation space based on dialogue. This publication is a result of this active involvement. The title “Manifesto” itself demands action or manifestation, thus we start by proposing initiatives for an innovative breakthrough of Slovenia drafted based on the philosophy, dialogue and experiences of the InCo movement in the field of innovation communication and journalism in 2009. These initiatives are accompanied by commitments the InCo movement will fulfil in 2010 and which we believe will raise awareness about creativity and innovation in Slovenian space."</blockquote><div class="blogger-post-footer">David Nordfors is co-founder and executive director of the VINNOVA-Stanford Research Center of Innovation Journalism at Stanford University. He coined the concept of "Innovation Journalism" in 2003.</div>David Nordforshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17806293501450632730noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26872242.post-87635800975778198822009-12-11T08:51:00.000-08:002009-12-11T09:02:48.049-08:00PBS Mediashift InJo Feature(Mark Glaser's <a href="http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/">PBS Mediashift</a> published a very nice <a href="http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2009/12/stanford-program-breaks-down-walls-between-business-tech-journalism344.html">feature on Innovation Journalism</a>. Mark is a leading innovation journalist himself, albeit not using that label, covering all aspects of innovation in journalism. The Mediashift blog is an important read, I have had it in my RSS feed for some time, and am now subscribing to the Twitter feeds @mediatwit (Mark Glaser) and @pbsmediashift.<div><br /></div><div>Here is the beginning of Mark's piece - <a href="http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2009/12/stanford-program-breaks-down-walls-between-business-tech-journalism344.html">read all of it on PBS Mediashift</a>.</div><div></div><blockquote><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 16px; font-family:helvetica, arial, clean, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div class="article-title clearfix" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 15px; padding-right: 15px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 15px; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: rgb(235, 235, 235); background-position: initial initial; "><h2 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Stanford Program Breaks Down Walls Between Business, Tech Journalism</span></h2><div class="post-author clearfix" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><img src="http://blogs.pbs.org/mediashift/mt/mt-static/support/assets_c/2008/09/mark%20glaser%20head-thumb-30xauto-2.jpg" alt="Mark Glaser" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; display: block; width: 30px; float: left; " /><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 5px; padding-top: 6px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; float: left; width: 510px; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">by </span><a href="http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/mark-glaser-1/" style="color: rgb(0, 106, 204); text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Mark Glaser</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, December 10, 2009</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span></span></span></p></div><p class="article-tags" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Tagged: </span><a href="http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/mt/mt-search.cgi?blog_id=4&tag=david%20nordfors&limit=20&IncludeBlogs=4" rel="tag" style="color: rgb(0, 106, 204); text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">david nordfors</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, </span><a href="http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/mt/mt-search.cgi?blog_id=4&tag=innovation&limit=20&IncludeBlogs=4" rel="tag" style="color: rgb(0, 106, 204); text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">innovation</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, </span><a href="http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/mt/mt-search.cgi?blog_id=4&tag=innovation%20journalism&limit=20&IncludeBlogs=4" rel="tag" style="color: rgb(0, 106, 204); text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">innovation journalism</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, </span><a href="http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/mt/mt-search.cgi?blog_id=4&tag=stanford%20university&limit=20&IncludeBlogs=4" rel="tag" style="color: rgb(0, 106, 204); text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">stanford university</span></a><span></span><span></span></p></div><div class="post" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 15px; line-height: 1.33; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">I am so used to hearing about innovation </span><em style="font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">in</span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> journalism that when I first heard about the</span><a href="http://www.innovationjournalism.org/blog/" style="color: rgb(0, 106, 204); text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Innovation Journalism</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> program at Stanford, I assumed that's what it focused on. Not exactly.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The </span><span class="caps"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">VINNOVA</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">-Stanford Research Center of Innovation Journalism actually focused on helping journalists cover the field of innovation. David Nordfors, a Swedish punk rocker-turned-molecular-physicist-turned-journalist, found that journalists were stuck in silos of "business journalism" and "technology journalism" and couldn't see the big picture of innovation.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">In 2003, Nordfors started the Innovation Journalism program, bringing mid-career journalists from around the world to Stanford University as fellows. They were placed in San Francisco Bay Area newsrooms to learn the new ways that reporters and bloggers were covering technology and innovation. Those newsrooms include the Wall Street Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, </span><span class="caps"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">CNET </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">and even the Technologizer blog. There's also an annual </span><a href="http://ij6.innovationjournalism.org/" style="color: rgb(0, 106, 204); text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Conference on Innovation Journalism</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> at Stanford, where the fellows present their work and discuss related topics.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline; "><img alt="IJ conference.jpg" src="http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/IJ%20conference.jpg" width="280" height="57" class="mt-image-left" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; " /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">While the program was set up to help journalists do a better job of covering the topic of innovation, there is now a need for journalists to do a better job of covering innovation in journalism itself. Nordfors told me that journalists charged with covering the media are good practitioners of innovation journalism, because they are mixing business, technology, lifestyle and political journalism in one beat. He stresses that journalists need to break out of their silos and go across disciplines for better coverage of innovation.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">I recently sat down with Nordfors at Stanford to talk about the Innovation Journalism program, and get his take on the current state of journalism, and how media companies -- and even journalism schools -- need to change. The following is an edited transcript of our conversation, including audio and video clips.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; line-height: 18px;"></span></p><blockquote></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: normal; font-size: 14px; "><i>[ </i><a href="http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2009/12/stanford-program-breaks-down-walls-between-business-tech-journalism344.html"><i>read the rest of it on PBS Mediashift</i></a><i> / David.]</i></span><p></p></div></span></div></blockquote><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 16px; font-family:helvetica, arial, clean, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div class="post" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 15px; line-height: 1.33; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "></p></div></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">David Nordfors is co-founder and executive director of the VINNOVA-Stanford Research Center of Innovation Journalism at Stanford University. He coined the concept of "Innovation Journalism" in 2003.</div>David Nordforshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17806293501450632730noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26872242.post-10379807095292309662009-12-06T12:02:00.000-08:002009-12-06T12:11:07.443-08:00Journalism Needs a Business Model for the Truth<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.innovationjournalism.org/blog/uploaded_images/truth-or-consequences-706124.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 259px;" src="http://www.innovationjournalism.org/blog/uploaded_images/truth-or-consequences-706121.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />(This story is also published through the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-nordfors/journalism-needs-a-busine_b_381782.html">Huffington Post</a>) <div><br />Journalism's first obligation is to the truth. Discussions about Truth and Objectivity in journalism often become questions of journalistic ethics and the trustworthiness of individuals and brands. These are good things but increasingly inadequate in backing up a story.<p></p><p style="list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; ">Convincing people the news is true by saying "because I told you so" is not working as well as it used to. The Internet is making it harder. Today people can read almost any news publication on the Internet, or check the sources of journalistic stories.</p><p style="list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; ">Some trusted news brands and individuals have experienced major scandals in recent years. The New York Times suffered from the fake star journalist <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayson_Blair" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayson_Blair" style="list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; color: rgb(5, 139, 123); text-decoration: none; ">Jayson Blair</a>. Iconic anchor Dan Rathers of CBS’ high-profile investigative journalism show "60 Minutes" tripped with the fabricated <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killian_documents" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killian_documents" style="list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; color: rgb(5, 139, 123); text-decoration: none; ">Killian documents</a>, and was brought down by blogger <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Johnson_(blogger)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Johnson_%28blogger%29" style="list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; color: rgb(5, 139, 123); text-decoration: none; ">Charles Johnson</a>.</p><p style="list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; ">How can professional journalism maintain its reputation for truth and objectivity?</p><p style="list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; ">The truth is often elusive. Events can have many explanations. Other circumstances are not what they seem. What we believe to be true today may be in doubt tomorrow. And then, of course, there has to be a news angle.</p><p style="list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; ">Physicists deal with the truth as closely as anyone can come to it. In science, models that can't predict are discarded and non-repeatable experiments dismissed. When scientific researchers write an article, the reader must always be given enough information to be able to repeat the observation. Otherwise the article should not be published.</p><p style="list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; ">Journalistic stories are much less accountable. A journalistic story rarely supplies readers with knowledge and references that lets the readers confirm the story. Links to information sources central for the story, even public ones readily available on the Internet, are omitted. Especially old-style journalism does not use links and references, bloggers do, much more.</p><p style="list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; ">Journalists and news outlets committed to the truth can make it into policy to link to important sources, and to write the news stories such that audiences can see how sources and assumptions were used to build the story. If readers reconstruct the story this way, they can add their own research. They can discuss the value of the sources, suggest other sources that were omitted, etc.</p><p style="list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; ">Traditional news organizations have never let that happen, because links lead readers away from their site. In their ‘attention’ business model – attracting eyeballs to pages and selling them to advertisers - the site needs to be sticky. Instead, the blogosphere is leading the way in developing the culture of linking to sources, because it depends less on ads.</p><p style="list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; ">Unfortunately, professional journalism has deeply rooted traditions. I was invited recently to a conference with the World Economic Forum, where we discussed the role of journalism in society. When I suggested that journalism should link to sources, a world-leading news organization chief commented that they wanted to do it and had tried, but their business did not allow it. For many journalists, that ends the discussion. But this is not where the discussion ends. Instead, it is where the discussion begins. We need to ask: "What are the business models for the principles of journalism?"</p><p style="list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; ">Societies that care about improving their collective ability to make priorities and informed decisions, need business models that promote journalists to link to sources, so that both readers and other journalists can check the stories and use them for continued research.</p><p style="list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; ">Some people think professional journalism is finished, that it can be replaced by citizen journalism or social interaction in social networks. I disagree. Professional journalists have an incentive to represent their audience. Who knows which incentives unpaid journalists have, or who they have their mandate from?</p><p style="list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; ">Professional journalism is needed as much now as ever before. With the Internet, peoples’ worlds of information are transforming from silent rural isolation to the bustling cacophonies of the metropolitan street. Journalists who focus public attention on issues that interest the public, working in the interest of and with the mandate of their audiences will be powerful. They will focus public discussion enabling people to improve society. The key for that is in the business model – journalists need the right incentives.</p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">David Nordfors is co-founder and executive director of the VINNOVA-Stanford Research Center of Innovation Journalism at Stanford University. He coined the concept of "Innovation Journalism" in 2003.</div>David Nordforshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17806293501450632730noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26872242.post-72763855310991714742009-11-22T11:40:00.000-08:002010-01-03T05:48:34.205-08:00Statement of The World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on the Future of Journalism<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.innovationjournalism.org/blog/uploaded_images/119543829.cIW7NuxN.20nov01-775943.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 162px;" src="http://www.innovationjournalism.org/blog/uploaded_images/119543829.cIW7NuxN.20nov01-775388.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Three days of intense meetings in Dubai are over, we made some significant steps this year. The key point made by the Global Agenda Council on the Future of Journalism - the council I take part in - is that "journalism" and "the media" are no longer synonyms. Journalism is still very much needed, but needs to reorganize, to exist in a different capacity than "the media".<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.innovationjournalism.org/blog/uploaded_images/119565658.IbITK5Yz.01-720555.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 242px; height: 161px;" src="http://www.innovationjournalism.org/blog/uploaded_images/119565658.IbITK5Yz.01-719621.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Here follows a summary from the WEF web site and other places:<br /><br />The second World Economic Forum Summit of the Global Agenda closed today with participants putting forward a host of ideas for redesigning the global system. The proposals debated by the Global Agenda Councils will form the basis of discussion at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, in January. For more information on the Summit and the Network of Global Agenda Councils, visit <a href="http://www.weforum.org/gac">http://www.weforum.org/gac </a><br /><br />Here below is the final statement of the Global Agenda Council on the Future of Journalism. The committee members who participated in the council meeting in Dubai:<br /><ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Amadou Mahtar Ba</span>, President <a href="http://allafrica.com">AllAfrica.com</a>, Senegal</li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Charlie Beckett</span>, Founding Director - <a href="http://www.polismedia.org/home.aspx">Polis</a>, London School of Economics, United Kingdom</li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">David Nordfors,</span> Founding Exec Director, <a href="http://injo.stanford.edu">Innovation Journalism</a>, Stanford, USA/Sweden</li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Guido Baumhauer</span>, Director of Strategy, Marketing and Distribution, <a href="http://www.dw-world.de/">Deutsche Welle</a>, Germany</li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Rui Chenggang</span>, Director & Anchor, co-founder <a href="http://english.cctv.com/01/index.shtml">CCTV-9</a>, People's Republic of China</li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Shekhar Gupta</span>, Editor-in-chief, <a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/">The Indian Express</a>, India</li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sulaiman Al Hattlan</span>, CEO <a href="http://www.arabstrategyforum.org/asf2009en/">Arab Strategy Forum</a>, Saudi Arabia</li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Susan King</span>, (Chairwoman), VP External Affairs, Director - Journalism Initiative, Special Initiatives and Strategy, <a href="http://www.carnegie.org/sub/about/srking.html">Carnegie Corporation</a>, USA</li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ulrik Haagerup</span>, Head of News, <a href="http://www.dr.dk/">Danish Broadcasting Corporation</a>, Denmark</li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Wilfried Ruetten</span>, Director - <a href="http://www.ejc.nl">European Journalism Centre</a>, Netherlands/Germany</li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Zafar Siddiqi</span>, Chairman/Founder CNBC Pakistan, Chairman/co-founder CNBC Africa, Chairman/CEO CNBC Arabiya, Owner SAMAA TV, Chairman/co-founder Murdoch University Study Centre Dubai<br /></li></ul><br /><blockquote>The Global Agenda Council on the Future of Journalism believes there is a need to reconstruct journalism and its relationship with the citizen and society. Public engagement is transforming journalism, offering an historic opportunity to create unprecedented increased value.<br /><br />The media industry in general, and journalism in particular, have been experiencing drastic changes which call into question their role in mediating information to the benefit of their audience as well as disrupting traditional business models. Yet in an age when information is more important than ever, journalism is vital for building societies. It is a systemic part of the social, environment. We need to build a new technical, political and financial eco-system to support it.<br /><br />There is a need to reinforce its basic principles: freedom of expression, holding power to account, providing information and a forum for debate, empowering citizens to take decisions about their lives. But mainstream journalism must also recognise its past failings and take advantage of new technologies and new social forces to reframe its practice, role and purpose. Journalism has a responsibility to not only mediate today’s realities, which go beyond national borders, are complex and inter connected, but also to engage local and global audiences/societies.<br /><br />This poses an unprecedented set of professional challenges. Even in regions where conventional journalism is still growing as a commercial sector, it is also subject to the impact of the same kinds of technological and social changes. Likewise, the opportunities this paper identifies are available in diverse ways to all news media markets.<br /><br />The Council believes that it is necessary to redesign organisations and identify business models that ensure the sustainability of professional networked journalism as the digital and mobile media have disrupted traditional distribution models and revenue streams. As a response, news organisations need to ensure constant refining of their talent pool’s professional skill set and equip them with innovative tool kits. At the same time, to ensure sustainability and relevance, organisations with journalism and journalists at their core may likely develop joint networks and forge strategic partnerships by pooling resources and sharing revenues.<br /><br />At the same time, the journalism itself is changing and so the business model that creates it must also be reinvented. There is a need to support the opportunity afforded by networked media to develop a more constructive journalism. This is based on some traditional values such as the Right to Know and some familiar kinds of editorial work such as investigative reporting. But new technologies enable a different functionality. Internet and digital journalism allows for fuller and more expansive story-telling.<br /><br />It affords the opportunity for a much greater connectivity between experts, journalists and the public. But most importantly, it allows the public to participate at all stages. Journalism can now tap into the boundless resource of knowledge and opinion within the audience. The role of the journalist changes from gatekeeper to a networker. The best obtainable version of the truth remains the goal but trust is not a given, it is a mutual relationship between the public and journalist. The authority of journalism will be built by the value it offers working with the citizen, not by a professional code alone.<br /><br />The Global Agenda Council on the Future of Journalism sees as a priority the establishment and (self) enforcement of global guiding principles for professional independent journalism.<br /><br />Existing Gaps:<br /><br />1. Can a global concept and practice for independent professional journalism be encouraged in countries or environments where a different set of values exists and censorship still prevails?<br /><br />2. Journalists are inadequately appreciated and protected. If journalism hopes to reinforce its role of watchdog for abuses of power and democracy, how can accountable journalists be valued and safeguarded?<br /><br />3. Journalism needs the following in their new business models to continue to exist and fufill their commitment to the global society:<br /><ul><li>Innovation and new partnerships</li><li>New and improved system of journalism education</li><li>Increased transparency and accountability</li></ul>4. News organizations need to understand and leverage the new dynamic of the social media revolution. Traditional models of journalism are in danger of being marginalised as public discourse shifts to direct and networked media platforms, Journalism – both citizen and professional needs to be fostered in these new spaces.<br /><br />Journalism needs to integrate the two new principle characteristics of digital media:<br /><ul><li>public participation</li><li>connectivity</li></ul>Internet and social media permit engagement between the audience and professional journalists as never before. The new media interactivity promises a more dynamic business and society - but there will be a period of creative reordering that presents a challenge to all stakeholders.<br /><br />This council believes that there are common values across diverse news media marketplaces as well as a global interconnectedness. Journalism has a world-role as well as a local or national function. This council believes that when it is networked, journalism offers a more sustainable business and a more socially useful way to inform and communicate about our world. Journalism at its best will continue to inform and inspire public debate and action. But this will not happen automatically and needs investment and strategic thinking, primarily by the journalism industry itself, but also by government and civil society</blockquote><div class="blogger-post-footer">David Nordfors is co-founder and executive director of the VINNOVA-Stanford Research Center of Innovation Journalism at Stanford University. He coined the concept of "Innovation Journalism" in 2003.</div>David Nordforshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17806293501450632730noreply@blogger.com4