The Edge of Journalism: Bringing Outsiders In And Making Collaborations Work

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[ ID ] f1e8efce-8d51-4632-8bce-87caf065527a

[ Submitter's Name ] David Riordan [ Submitter's Affiliated Organisation ] The Brown Institute for Media Innovation at Columbia Journalism School and Stanford Engineering [ Submitter's Twitter ] @riordan

[ Space ] journalism [ Secondary Space ] science

[ Format ] demo, learning-lab, fireside

Description

Brokering relationships between organizations and individuals to foster fruitful collaborations. Doing great work in media today often means you're doing it with others. Playing with new formats, working with disparate disciplines, finding new ways to sustain interdisciplinary work, and creating stories with wide-ranging impact require the work of a network of individuals with varying goals and skills. How do you reconcile their disparate political motivations and organizational constraints?

Agenda

In this session we will:

Have participants share their barriers to working collaboratively with other individuals/organizations. What has worked and what has failed in the past when they've tried to work with other organizations? 

    Take participants through an activity on reconciling these differences in politics, culture and constraints

    Create a worksheet for participants to take back to their organizations to encourage more collaborative work

Participants

For all sessions, we'll start with a brief overview of some of our favorite collaborations in the space, outline what we do at The Brown Institute for Media Innovation, and how we get collaborators from different domains to make great work together.

Then we'll break up into groups of ~5-7 to go through organizational goals, pairing folks from journalism with people from outside the field (outside experts from other tracks as well as ringers we bring ourselves) to create a hypothetical collaboration and talk about how it'd happen at their organizations.

We'd end with a report-out that'd be captured as part of the github repository and etherpad for the event.

Outcome

We hope that participants will leave this session with a working roadmap for how they might tackle the challenges of coordinating projects and initiatives with other individuals and organizations. We hope they will leave feeling more strongly about the benefits that collaboration can bring, even among people and companies that might otherwise compete in the same space. We would like them to take their conversations forward to their organizations to help encourage a more open and shared experience in the digital journalism world.

[ryanpitts]

Journalism accepting this session.

[riordan]

cc @amccartney !!!