Trust in the media has hit an all-time low.
5 years ago, the speaker was a foreign correspondent in the Middle Ease reporting for ABC news. But she felt that they needed to fix the problem with their industry.
e.f. look back on Iraq, those years when we were missing the story, were the years when the society was falling apart, when we were setting the conditions for what would become the rise o ISIS, the ISIS takeover of Mosul and terrorist violence that would spread beyond Iraq’s borders to the rest of the world. Just that time, she found there was another story missing: the war in Syria.
She started a website, called “Syria Deeply”. It was designed to be a news and information source that made it easier to understand a complex issue. She shared three ideas for how to make things better.
1)
We need news that’s built on deep-domain knowledge.
working with more local journalists, treating them like partners and collaborators. They teach others something new everyday, and bring stories are important for all of us to know.
2)
We need a kind of Hippocratic oath for the news industry, a pledge to forest do no harm.
Journalists need to be tough, need to speak truth to power, and need to be responsible.
3)
We need to embrace complexity if we want to make sense of a complex world.
we live in a complex world. Journalists’ job is to get elbow deep in complexity and to find new ways to make it easier for everyone else to understand. She think that it is their responsibility to translate those threats and to help people understand what’s real.
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