![]() ![]() Small towns and, in the case of Telemundo, the state’s Spanish speaking population, don’t often have journalism done on their behalf, Janssen said.Įdgell said her team focuses on the conversation around their work, involving audiences in new ways around the high-quality work they produce. News Channel Nebraska achieves that by focusing on places that aren’t covered. How, in these circumstances, can organizations make their stories “shine?” On standing out in a crowded marketĪn audience member compared the current media landscape to the old days of a few newspapers and a handful of TV stations. Instead, NOISE uses design to draw readers in. But it was important.Ī salacious headline like “Who else has to die?” might have gotten better engagement. By giving content away, the organization limits the journalistic desire to measure success based on mere size of audience.ĭavis talked about a recent NOISE story about a dangerous intersection. That sort of coverage isn’t something to be looked down upon, and is a major part of News Channel Nebraska’s mission.įlatwater, meanwhile, was built to escape clicks as a metric altogether. In a small town, he said, everyone knows the three children who were hurt in a house fire. ![]() Janssen said the idea of crime stories as clickbait is different in a small town than a big city. Her team still focuses on headlines with solid search engine optimization and keywords, but the work itself has to be meaningful. Not having to rely on clicks is different from ignoring them, Edgell said. “All of our reporting was based off of being historically correct and accurate, but also painting a picture of how people wer feeling in the moment… not just giving such a biased view of what was going on,” he said. The stories reflect that, and paint a misleading and troubling view of those monumental events. Historically, journalism didn’t represent black and brown people. You were at the protests,” he said, before asking how the role of NOISE differs from that of legacy media organizations.ĭavis said that, during NOISE’s coverage of those protests, they looked back at coverage of Will Brown and other historical atrocities. The first time Hansen took notice of NOISE was during the protests after the murder of Goerge Floyd. “Ultimately, until somebody tells me stop sharing all this content, I’m not going to.” On representing groups that have been ignored “To me, this is the way that we survive,” she said. The story was shared on Twitter by major national news organizations, she said, increasing awareness beyond their member newsrooms. Like many new newsrooms, they distributed the story at no cost to media partners across their four-state coverage area in English and Spanish.Īll told, she said, 15 publications ran the piece. The evidence of that is in this room, today.” On distributing content for freeĮdgell talked about NPR Midwest’s recent piece on “quiet title” actions, which allow people to questionably lay claim to property rights. “That’s what you’re doing here in Nebraska, you’re building that ecosystem. The organization’s goal, she said, is not to replace what was, but to support the next chapter of news. Heyamoto drew parallels between the energy in Nebraska and the role of LION. “You’re playing an extraordinarily strong hand…you have a great ecosystem, you have great people.” Since the Flatwater Free Press started planning the event in November, two more news organizations have launched: The Nebraska Examiner and Nebraska Sunrise News.įriedlich talked about the work of the organizations present, highlighting that they tackle different angles and serve different audiences. I NTRODUCTION: Not a single organization present existed 20 years ago, Hansen pointed out - when the state had twice as many working journalists. Most recently Hansen has served as the managing editor at the Buffett Early Childhood Institute, creating a new website focusing on early childhood education. He was the 2015 Great Plains Writer of the Year. ![]() During his time in newspapers, he travelled to Cuba and Afghanistan and won multiple state, regional and national awards for investigative stories, feature stories and columns. Hansen, a 16-year veteran of Nebraska newspapers, has previously worked as a reporter at the Lincoln Journal Star and then a reporter and metro columnist at the Omaha World-Herald. Matthew Hansen is the editor of the Flatwater Free Press, Nebraska’s first statewide nonprofit news source.
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