24 November 2016

How Journalists Need to Begin Imagining the Unimaginable RIGHT NOW

The job for journalists now is to document changing norms...
We really have to figure out how to tell the truth and not just report the facts. Which is a pretty good sentence but not a great prescription.
I think that I would create new beats. The language beat, language watch.
Understand that normal is going to drift and shift and all sorts of things are about to happen and part of our job is to notice and document how it's happening. We may not be able to influence the course of events, but our job is to at least be able to tell the story."

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https://www.propublica.org/podcast/item/how-journalists-need-to-begin-imagining-the-unimaginable?utm_source=pardot&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dailynewsletter

by Eric Umansky
ProPublica, Nov. 23, 2016, 5:10 p.m.

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