COP22: How to address media failure

The Global Editors Network Newsletter About us | Programmes | Work with us | Community 10 November 2016 View on your own browser COP 22: How to Address Media Failure COP21 has relaunched international action and is a huge step forward after Kyoto’s failings and the weak results from Copenhagen. But the hard work has only just begun, as the media efforts in reporting on these issues have been unequal at best. Looking forward to a Trump presidency, the game is bound to change. So much has yet to be done to fight against climate change and he stated during his campaign that he would nullify the US ratification if he won the election. How can we report on climate change and its challenges effectively? Read more DJA 2017 Launch Special What makes a great data journalism project today? – A Slack group discussion with previous winners of the DJA competition. Thursday 24 November 2016 – 5pm CET To celebrate the launch of the Data Journalism Awards 2017, we’ve set up a special discussion on the new DJA Slack team to try and sort out what makes a great data journalism project today. Is it the data? The team? The innovative technology? Or a whole set of things? Featuring previous winners of the DJA competition, this Slack discussion will try to answer these questions. We'll also find out what previous DJA winners have been up to since they won and get tips on applying for the DJA competition this year. Guests include Peter Aldhous of BuzzFeed (DJA 2016 winner), Eva Belmonte of the Civio Foundation (DJA 2016 winner), Matteo Moretti (DJA 2015 winner with the project: People's republic of Bolzano) and Prachi Salve of Indiaspend (DJA 2016 special mention winner). All you need to do to RSVP, catch-up on previous discussions, and join the DJA Slack community is fill this Google Form.  RSVP for free and join our Slack community GEN welcomes a new team member The Global Editors Network has just welcomed its newest member, Emilie Kodjo who comes on board as our new Director of Communications and Public Affairs. Emilie will support the effort of our team in empowering newsrooms, contributing to shaping the future of journalism, and developing and conducting our many programmes with the Data Journalism Awards, the Editors Lab, Startups For News, and new features for the GEN Summit 2017. More on our team What we're reading this week Trump Win Exposes Media's Smug Failures – Michael Wolff, The Hollywood Reporter   “Political campaigns have developed remarkable skills and technologies to circumvent the media when engaging with potential voters. (…) This has serious implications not just for the role of journalism but for the public sphere in general.” – Thomas Schmidt, European Journalism Observatory   “And that’s why the problem that surfaced on Tuesday night was much bigger than polling. It was clear that something was fundamentally broken in journalism, which has been unable to keep up with the anti-establishment mood that is turning the world upside down.” – Jim Rutenberg, The New York Times   “It’s not just that Trump knows how to keep himself in the news, though. The issue is also that media itself has become as much an entertainment channel as it is an information one.” – Issie Lapowsky, Wired   Journalists, it’s time to get back to work – Kelly McBride, Poynter   “But another key component of journalism is the framing and contextualizing of events and new information: How do you take that raw material and present it in ways that don’t just provide consumers with new data points, but help them suss out how critical those data points are and what they mean in the scheme of things? Here, major media outlets failed abysmally.” – Brian Beutler, New Republic   “Journalism built our business on mass and attention, which are entertainment values. Service, information, and education are — or should be — journalism’s values. I wish I had worked harder faster on building new business models around them.” – Jeff Jarvis, Wither News?   "The true “epic fail” is of the journalism industry as a whole: that the sector has been unable to find an alternative commercial model to the one that has sustained it for so long." – Rachel Oldroyd, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism   “The most obvious way in which Facebook enabled a Trump victory has been its inability (or refusal) to address the problem of hoax or fake news.” – Max Read, New York Magazine Medium Twitter Facebook The Global Editors Network is a cross-platform community of editors-in-chief and media innovators committed to sustainable, high-quality journalism. You are receiving this email because you opted in at our website. You can unsubscribe here.   Strategic partners:  Copyright © 2016 Global Editors Network, All rights reserved.