January 2010
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Conversational Journalism Players (Part 2 in a...
Les Philosophes, a.k.a Voltaire and Rousseau: Thomas Jefferson and other Founding Fathers borrowed many of their ideas about personal freedoms from the French, including Voltaire and Rousseau (pictured here respectively). Sure, Voltaire sometimes viewed the masses as a rabble of uncouth miscreants. But where he and others of his mindset stand tall is in their unwavering insistence that writers...
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Conversational Journalism Players Gallery
You’d think from all of the talk in recent years about journalism as a conversation that it’s new, maybe an Internet creation or fad. It’s not.
The concept stretches back at least as far as the Founding Fathers and their inspiration, the French Enlightenment philosophers, including Voltaire and Rousseau. You can hear it in the writings of the American revolutionary Thomas Paine and the...
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Conversational Journalism: A New Beginning
Back when I was a reporter, I dreaded “lobby calls” from readers who wanted to share a tip. They’d show up on deadline, in their hip waders or jammies or jumpsuits or whatever. Some of them were batshit crazy and many –– many –– seemed lonely. But most were spot on about news in the community, telling me things I should have known.
I wanted to kill them at times, but they always left me wondering...