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curiosity, journalism, journalists, Kapuscinski, reporter, travel

The Reporter’s Curiosity

  Publicerad av Emanuel Sidea

“Reporterns nyfikenhet på världen är en fråga om karaktär. Det finns människor som inte intresserar sig för omvärlden. Den egna världen ser de som hela världen. Och det ska man inte säga något ont om.
Konfucius hävdade att världen lär man känna bäst om man inte går utanför sin dörr. Det ligger en viss sanning i det. Man behöver inte nödvändigtvis resa i rummet. Det går att färdas långt in i den egna själens djup. En resa är ett vidsträckt begrepp, mångfacetterat.
Men det finns människor som måste lära känna världen i hela dess mångfald - det är en del av deras natur. Sådana människor finns det inte många av.”

Ryszard Kapuscinski, “Reporterns självporträtt”

journalism, Kapuscinski, story, writing

What Surrounds a Story

  Publicerad av Emanuel Sidea

“It is not the story that is not getting expressed: it’s what surrounds the story. The climate, the atmosphere of the street, the feeling of the people, the gossip of the town, the smell; the thousand, thousand elements of reality that are part of the event you read about in 600 words in your morning paper.”

Ryszard Kapuscinski, interviewed by Bill Buford in Granta 21 (1987)

critic, journalism, Kapuscinski

Kapuscinski Answering other Questions

  Publicerad av Emanuel Sidea

“You know, sometimes the critical response to my books is amusing. There are so many complaints: Kapuscinski never mentions dates, Kapuscinski never gives us the name of the minister, he has forgotten the order of events. All that, of course, is exactly what I avoid. If those are the questions you want answered, you can visit your local library, where you will find everything you need: the newspapers of the time, the reference books, a dictionary.”

Ryszard Kapuscinski, interviewed by Bill Buford in Granta 21 (1987)

internet, journalism, media, new media

This is Our Problem with New Media

  Publicerad av Emanuel Sidea

“Vår fiende är inte en våldsamt förändrande teknik, inte bloggarna, inte vår pressfientliga regering. Utan förtvivlan som kommer från vår oförmåga att se hållbara värden i det gamla och de fina löftena i det nya.”

Bill Keller, chefredaktör på New York Times, om nya medier

journalism, Kapuscinski, writing

Kapuscinski on Writing

  Publicerad av Emanuel Sidea

“My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection.”

Ryszard Kapuscinski

journalism, Kapuscinski, story

Kapuscinski on Storytelling

  Publicerad av Emanuel Sidea

“Why am I a writer? Why have I risked my life so many times, come so close to dying? Is it to report the weirdness? To earn my salary? Mine is not a vocation, it’s a mission. I wouldn’t subject myself to these dangers if I didn’t feel that there was something overwhelmingly important–about history, about ourselves–that I felt compelled to get across. This is more than journalism.”

Ryszard Kapuscinski, interview by Bill Bufford in Granta Magazine

citizen, journalism, media

10 Chunks on Citizen Journalism

  Publicerad av Emanuel Sidea

Dan Gillmor, director of the Center for Citizen Media on the state of citizen journalism:

1. Recognition of citizen media
There’s a growing recognition and appreciation of why citizen journalism matters.

2. Traditional media get it now
Traditional media organisations, big and small, are moving into this arena. The vast majority of newspapers now have staff blogs [and] the more forward-looking organisations are inviting their audiences to participate in the actual journalism.

3. Backlash
There’s always a backlash against new things and it’s always important to pay attention. What worries may of the more honest critics? Among other things, the sense that mass amateurisation in media lead to a meltdown of quality. Critics have also legitimately raised ethical concerns.

4. Tools and ideas
There’s never been such an amazing time to be trying out new things. We’re almost buried in an avalanche of tools and ideas that have enormous potential to make journalism more diverse — and better.

5. Business issues
The disruption in traditional media economics continues to grow. Layoffs abound at major media companies, and the litany of fear and loathing in the news business is disheartening. Citizen media efforts are likewise struggling to find business models.

6. Experimentation is cheap
The cost of trying new ideas is heading toward zero. That means lots and lots of people will — already are — testing the possibilities of new media. … So the R&D that the news industry should have done years ago is now being done in a highly distributed way.

7. Some experiments to pursue
Examples of mobility and object story telling.

8. Ethics, reliability, civility
It’s not enough for those of us in the field to point out that the traditional media also have issues in this regard. We have to acknowledge the problems and work on the solutions.

9. Assisting trust
We have ample opportunity, meanwhile, to find ways to enhance citizen media credibility — and that of all journalists, in whatever format they use — with updated techniques and tools.

10. Media literacy
What becomes increasingly clear is the need to update media literacy for a media-saturated age. When people are creators of media, not just consumers, the task is more complex — but more important than ever. Gillmor concludes that “we have a long, long way to go. We need much more experimentation in journalism and community information projects. The business models are, at best, uncertain — and some notable failures are discouraging. Dealing with the issues of trust, credibility and ethics is essential; as are more tools and training, including a dramatically updated notion of media literacy.

Dan Gilmor: Citizen Media, A Progress Report