That is why there is a public service ethic at the heart all of serious journalism. It gives people the information they need to take part in the democratic process. In a democracy, journalism plays a central role in that. The public interest is in having a safe, healthy and fully-functioning society. It is about issues which affect everyone, even if many of them are not aware of it or even if they don’t appear to care. The public interest is not just what the readers, listeners or viewers want either as consumers or people who want to be entertained. It is about the common good, the general welfare and the security and well-being of everyone in the community we serve. Simply, the public interest is about what matters to everyone in society. The aim of constructive journalism is to provide its audiences with the best obtainable version of the truth, whether positive or negative. To quote investigative journalist, Carl Bernstein of the Washington Post Watergate team: “ Journalism is the best obtainable version of the truth”. Constructive investigation is solution-oriented and not overemphasizing the negative. (source: Constructive Institute, Denmark). Once public awareness about a particular problem has been risen (our crowdsourcing plateform), constructive journalism may – when relevant and appropriate – spark debate about what can be done about this issue now? Who has tried to solve it? Who has done this better? The aim is not to aggravate problems or spark conflict, but to facilitate critical debate about possible solutions so that the issue can be moved forward. It is an approach that aims to provide audiences with a fair, accurate and contextualised picture of the world, without overemphasizing the negative and what is going wrong. I see skies of blue and clouds of white The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night And I think to myself What a wonderful worldĪfter the press report will be released on our plateform, community of our reader can take charge to act in creating associations or contacting existing NGO to campaign about the theme analyzed in the press report.Ĭonstructive journalism is a response to increasing tabloidization, infotainnment, sensationalism and negativity bias of the news media today. I see trees of green, red roses too I see them bloom for me and you And I think to myself We want that our reader discover how wonderful is our world like Louis Amstrong was singing: The goal is to do a constructive and not destructive journalism. Providing positive news is to look on the bright side OUR VISION The idea is to bring together on a single crowdsourcing and crowdfunding platform the network of investigative journalists with the network of activists to create a multiplier effect. Wonderful news of the world (WNOW) is based on collaborative public interest journalism, pre-funded by readers. WNOWwill then investigate and identify the problem while giving leads for solutions. It is the reader’s interest/public interest that will determine the matter of the press investigation. We want to reverse the reader-journalist relationship. We are a collaborative positive news provider To do the right thing – you have to be well-informed So information will be in the public interest, The reader will not only know but he can act and change the world. They can create an association (crowdfunding) or take contact to NGO in charge of this kind of problem. The community of readers of Wonderful news of the world will be activated to help to resolve the problem and offer solutions to society. In the end of the process, all the reports will be solution-oriented.
The report will then be available to the campaing’s subscribers or sold to other media. If enough people want to know more about the facts and when the story is pre-funded (crowdfunding) and pre-sourced (crowdsourcing) by the community of Wonderful news of the world, an editorial comitee will decide to mandate our journalists’ network to conduct investigations on various topics of public interest in Switzerland and outisde. So the citizen will become a source by sharing informations and documents (by our securised plateform) and a fundraiser to be coproducer of the investigation. The readers’ community inform and request CONSTRUCTIVE INVESTIGATION to Wonderful news of the world on public interest topics like Heath, Planet care, Social problems, Injustice, Corruption…įor example, a citizen wants to know more about corruption of local authorities, about the pollution of a local factory…. Our platform is A NETWORK based on collaborative journalism in the public interest, pre-funded and pre-sourced by citizens, readers and members of the community.
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