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Take the "TAO of Journalism" Pledge -- A Commitment to Transparency, Accountability & Openness

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Well meaning contrarians discuss what's not being discussed

November 19, 2009

John Hamer commented on Mike Fancher's blog post 'A new ethic of public trust through public engagement'

Great piece, Mike. Your RJI project focusing on The Journalists' Creed is clearly adding valuable insights. I especially like your statement that "Technology requires journalists to embrace a new ethic of public trust through public engagement if th…

May 13, 2009

John Hamer is now a member of RJI News Collaboratory

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March 10, 2009

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What kind of org do you work for?

nonprofit

What do you do?

journalist, businessperson, advertising/marketing professional, technologist, information designer, librarians, community/campaign organizers, educator, student

What strengths/expertise do you have to offer?

25 years as a working journalist (The Seattle Times, Congressional Quarterly); 5 years as a think-tank writer/editor; 5 years as a media critic/columnist (Seattle Weekly, CounterPoint); 10 years as a nonprofit News Council founder and executive director.

What kind of help/insight do you hope to get from this community?

Support for the idea that journalism won't matter unless it is trusted, and the key to trust -- besides meeting basic standards of fairness, accuracy and balance -- is what I call The TAO of Journalism: Transparency, Accountability and Openness. Without that, we're dead.

I think we should use the RJI Collaboratory incubator to develop:

Building blocks for geographic- or topic-based local Web news sites, "How-To" handbook

John Hamer's Blog

Take the "TAO of Journalism" Pledge -- A Commitment to Transparency, Accountability & Openness

PROPOSED: A “TAO OF JOURNALISM SEAL”

By John Hamer

At the sold-out “Journalism That Matters” event at the University of Washington (Jan. 7-10), over 200 people came together to “Re-imagine News & Community in the Pacific Northwest.”

Mainstream journalists, community journalists, freelancers, bloggers, tweeters, academics, students and other interested parties gathered to confront some pretty tough questions, such as:

Who can be trusted in the “new news ecosystem”? What media sources… Continue

Posted on January 29, 2010 at 10:12am —