Posts Tagged ‘design thinking’
Journalistic Brainstorming: What Don’t We Know
We kicked off the fall semester of Public Affairs Reporting for New Media at UNC yesterday by brainstorming in 10 minutes at least 50 questions that we were going to need to answer in order to create a new “Everyblock”-style community information database for small newspapers.
It’s a great example of how the design thinking school of innovation intersects well with the world of journalism. Good reporters should always be asking themselves “What don’t I know about this?” And great reporters take that question to a diverse group of collaborators and ask “What don’t we know about this?”
Here’s what my students and I don’t know:
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Written by Ryan Thornburg
August 25, 2010 at 3:07 pm
Posted in Innovation, Top Menu
Tagged with brainstorming, design thinking, Everyblock, JOMC 491, Washington, Whiteville
