I love to see the news industry recognising the need for community roles.
Maybe some community professionals would be well suited in a journalism or news related path. Or perhaps other industries could see the benefit of practicing something similar. 🤔
And the more I think about this, the more I feel that these roles very much align with community discovery as they do with “relationship building” that normally gets associated with community building efforts.
UW Madison professor of journalism, Sue Robinson, recently published How Journalists Engage: A Theory of Trust Building, Identities, and Care. In it, she names the new roles and skill sets that those working in journalism need to invest in so that information can be used and trusted.
They include:
Relationship Builder
Community Collaborator
Community Conversation Facilitator
Professional Industry Networker
But these roles and the trust-building, human, actual-experience and dialogical side of civic information creation and sharing cannot happen without investment. [Source]
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