Jack Rosenberry

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Final thoughts on A Practical Guide to Participatory/Engaged Journalism

Over several days last week, A Practical Guide to Participatory/Engaged Journalism was serialized on this blog via summary posts and links…

Sep 30, 2024

Cover of A Practical Guide to Participatory/Engaged Journalism, with title, author’s name and an image showing two people leading a group discussion in an auditorium-type space.

Sep 30, 2024

Final entry offers practical advice for more effective participatory/engaged journalism

This post — the final one in the series — introduces the practical portion of the Practical Guide to Participatory/Engaged Journalism. It…

Sep 27, 2024

“Wonky” analysis brings out most prominent principles, practices for participatory/engaged…

This post introduces part 4 of the Practical Guide to Participatory/Engaged Journalism, called A Wonky Analysis. Part 4 elaborates on the…

Sep 26, 2024

Part 3 of Practical Guide to Participatory/Engaged Journalism highlights best practices

This post introduces Part 3 of the Practical Guide to Participatory/Engaged Journalism, which focuses on key practices of the approach. It…

Sep 25, 2024

Practical Guide to Participatory/Engaged Journalism Part 2 focuses on key principles

This post introduces part 2 of the Practical Guide to Participatory/Engaged Journalism, which focuses on key principles discovered in the…

Sep 24, 2024

New monograph offers practical guide to participatory, engaged journalism

Participatory/engaged journalism — which was at one time exotic and somewhat mistrusted — has gone mainstream. Although the impact of…

Sep 23, 2024

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Want to quantify solutions? Build a data center

If you’re doing deep solutions reporting, dedicating time to gathering data is worth it

Mar 1, 2022

Want to quantify solutions? Build a data center

Mar 1, 2022

Another answer to the question of “Can Local Scale?”

Here’s another take on the “Can Local Scale?” question with a different stance from a recent post about that topic.

Feb 22, 2022

Another answer to the question of “Can Local Scale?”

Feb 22, 2022

Are local newsletters nationally scalable?

Clarification: This post has been updated to remove passages implying a merger between Axios and 6AM City. The linked article (fourth…

Feb 5, 2022

Feb 5, 2022

Exploring a local news aggregator

As I’ve mentioned in this spot before, one of my main connections to the emerging local news scene is the Webster on the Web blog…

Feb 1, 2022

Feb 1, 2022

What will media look like in 2037?

A recent article in Politico asked a number of prominent media observers to look ahead at what they thought the state of the media would be…

Jan 28, 2022

New book explores relational approach to journalism

Disclosure: The subject of this post is a book written by three close friends; my work is quoted/cited in a few places and I provided a…

Jun 21, 2021

New book explores relational approach to journalism

Jun 21, 2021

Putting Community First, Part II

A recent post on my Wordpress blog (neglected to cross-post here on Medium, unfortunately) focused on the common threads between a couple…

May 26, 2021

New book explores journalistic innovations

Time to plug a project I am part of, but really pleased to be able to do so because of how interesting and important it could be for…

May 20, 2021

A “30” on the 30th

Some personal news: I am retiring, and today was my last day of teaching full-time at St John Fisher College. Finals week lies ahead, but…

Apr 30, 2021

Lazy news gathering through social media unhealthy for democracy

I posed a series of questions to one of my classes this week that brought out an interesting pattern of results.

Feb 17, 2018

Lazy news gathering through social media unhealthy for democracy

Feb 17, 2018

Don’t overthink Trump; he’s all ego — which will be his undoing

The world really doesn’t need one more hot take on Trump’s ascendance to the presidency, but I am offering one nonetheless.

Jan 21, 2017

One nation, divisible

Barack Obama’s rise to national prominence started with a speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, when he was still a member of…

Jan 19, 2017

Jan 19, 2017

More respect for US from abroad? Don’t bet on it

A few smart takes on the current state of US journalism came to my attention from “across the pond” this past weekend, that is to say…

Jan 18, 2017

Time to call “fake news” by its real name: propaganda

The term “fake news” has been IN the news a lot recently, especially related to President-elect Trump’s weaponizing of the term during his…

Jan 15, 2017

Time to call “fake news” by its real name: propaganda

Jan 15, 2017