“Let’s surveil the surveillors.” #ifj19

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Rauch on possible gov’t funding for news in US: What if we gave every American $100 a year to spend on the journalism of their choice? Or what about a digital media tax on entities (Facebook, Google I assume) making $$$ at the expense of news industry? #ifj19

Puliafito: We are trying to work on a slow news business model that is “pay as much as you can,” with suggested price, but people can pay more or less as able. (He believes advertising & news should separate 100% at this point.) #ifj19

Puliafito to Rauch: “It seems we always try to define the #slowjournalism movement as against something else, but you have given us another way to look at it.” #ifj19

Puliafito: “You can be a slow journalist & cover emergency situations. You can be slow in your working methods.” #ifj19

Slow news: Rauch remembers the mid-1990s world of metered ‘net access (as do we, right @[email protected] peeps?) and how it tended to make one prioritize what we wanted to do with our online time. What if we treated our time & attention like that now? #ifj19

“There are ways of being informed without digital media, that people have used for decades and centuries...I have the advantage of being a digital immigrant & being able to compare that to the world we have now.”- Jennifer Rauch #ifj19

Slow-ish journalism: @[email protected] has around 18,000 subscribers and produces 3 articles a day. Some subscribers tell them that’s too much news, and could they publish a little less! #ifj19

Potential pitfalls:
-Can “slow news” become a cynical branding exercise?
-Is it the role of journalism to “develop ethical commitments to sustaining people & the planet”?
-Is a seal-of-approval approach desirable? Who’d establish the criteria, award the moniker?
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