Future of Journalism – a series by the Alliance for Journalists' Freedom – Details, episodes & analysis

Media outlets are experimenting with ways to attract younger audiences, as the under 35s snack instead of grazing on smartphones across their multiple networks for news. They also have the lowest trust in media, according to a Reuters Institute report. 

How can media gain the trust of younger audiences? How can they inspire loyalty? Is it true that younger audiences don’t consume long-form content?    

For our #FutureOfJournalism series, the AJF's Chair Peter Wilkinson talked to Phoebe Connelly, director of Next Generation Audience Development at the Washington Post.

Watch this interview on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYf3MwSfQ20

John Cook created Cranky Uncle to fight misinformation. He’s a scientist and reporting those complexities is not easy. Take climate change. How might journalists have covered climate change in a more nuanced way – without giving so much weight to a tiny contrarian minority? What lessons can be learned from the way media covered Covid-19 vaccines? 

For our #FutureOfJournalism series, the AJF's Chair Peter Wilkinson talked to Cook, a research fellow with the Monash Climate Change Communication Research Hub.

Watch this interview on YouTube https://youtu.be/s_UnvWmoaH4

Does it matter that the Murdoch press is seen as right and the ABC left-wing?
And what damage is done by the way media bias has been magnified in the US, especially through the Trump era?
These are fundamental ethical issues going to the heart of journalists and publishers’ obligations to the rest of us. And they are what Kelly McBride grapples with. As Chair of the Craig Newmark Center for Ethics and Leadership at the Poynter Institute, her role is to guide publishers and journalists on ethical issues.  

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Two journalists were awarded the #NobelPeacePrize in October, for what the Committee called their courageous work standing up for the craft in a world in which democracy and freedom of the press face increasingly adverse conditions. 

Now, you might say “So what?” Why give the award to Maria Ressa in the Philippines and Dmitry Muratov in Russia, and that it would be better going to, for instance, the people who discovered the vaccines for COVID, or one of the champions of climate change? Here Dr. Julie Posetti argues the case for journalism. Based in Oxford, she is the Global Director of Research at the Washington based International Centre for Journalists.  

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Its possibilities are tantalising! The Pandora Papers, just published, boasting 600 journalists across 130 publications, exposing global financial secrets and tax evasion until now hidden from authorities.
That collaboration was via the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ).
Earlier, in July another global collaboration, Forbidden Stories based in Paris, exposing governments spying via the Pegasus Project detailing leaked 50,000 phone numbers with Israeli developed spyware enabling politicians to snoop on their opposition, activists, business people and journalists.  
The Forbidden Stories founder, Laurent Richard discusses its potential...
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Is the media too powerful and too invasive? Do those who work to keep the powerful in check, really need to check themselves? And does the pursuit of tears by television journalists demean both journalism and the talent?   

These are questions UK journalist John Lloyd, with five decades of journalism, editing and book writing under his belt, wrestles with. In 2004 he published 'What the Media Are Doing to Our Politics' and in 2017 'The Power and the Story'. In 2006 he co-founded the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford. More recently, John joined the International Advisory Council at the Judith Nielsen Institute for Journalism and Ideas.   

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Journalism connects people within their communities. Correct? Or, is that only part of the picture now, and less so in future? Perhaps, with the internet, journalism is now just one way people now connect in communities, and that’s what this episode is about.

In Canada, Farhan Mohamed’s passion is making communities better. And he believes the future of journalism is a part of a jigsaw of ways people connect.

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Jim Kennedy in New York has made a career of future thinking. He’s been leading strategic planning for AP, The Associated Press,  the world’s largest news organization, since 2001.

Before his current role was executive director of product planning for the digital site at the Wall Street Journal.

Now, besides his current role he’s a founding member of the Online News Association, a current board member of Digital Content Next and an advisory board member of Matter Ventures, a media startup accelerator.

With that depth of experience, we talk about the future, and the opportunities the traditional publishers have missed and the concept of ongoing training for journalists.

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Episode 10: A voluntary certification program for journalists has taken a major step forward with a collaboration by The Ethics Centre and the Alliance for Journalists’ Freedom to develop the proposal. This is a major next step following the AJF proposing such a scheme in November last year. 

On this World Press Freedom Day, we invite conversation from our peers, journalists, lawyers, politicians and others about developing such a scheme.  

Here, Dr Simon Longstaff, Executive Director of The Ethics Centre and Peter Wilkinson, Chair of the AJF, discuss the future of journalism, certification, and the proposed Media Freedom Act.   

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Episode 9: Learning from history.

It’s been argued that the pace of change is now so fast, that in many areas, what we can learn from history about the future is limited. Not so with the future of journalism says Hugh Riminton. He has been award-winning TV reporter, foreign correspondent, author, and news anchor including for CNN in the USA. He’s currently National Affairs Editor at Network 10. Relevant to us though, he’s an amateur historian, and so argues there's a lot to be learnt about what’s ahead by looking back. #journalist #journalism #auspol #abcnews #Nine #News #FutureofJournalism