Kirstin kyle
So we were asked to do this project and I was skeptical. What could a bunch of students possibly do to improve the community. We studied a theory called public journalism by Haas and I still wasn't convinced.
After our focus group meeting where we tackled some of the major issues that we faced (using people, not having power and crossing the professionalism that governs traditional journalism). I realised that even though not everything was successful we had managed to do something, no matter how small (picking up a few bits of litter).
I realise that journalists are trained to be objective but I think this theory could carry some weight. If the world was accountable for their actions like I felt when taking our wall papers to people, then surely a lot more positive things could occur.
Accountability, empathy, community involvement and trying to create a democracy are some of the core principles I have taken from this and I hope more journalists can be allowed to follow these practices.
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