NoContest Communications readers know all about Jay Rosen, the marvellous analyst of media and journalism who recently retired from his position as Professor at NYU. His new gig is working to promote News Creators Corps. He writes:
For the last three decades, I have been trying to improve American journalism by making the profession of it easier to trust. But now I have to recognize another way. The rise of the creator class and its use of the social layer makes it clear: Journalism — the practice of it — belongs not only to the people who call themselves journalists, but to everyone who does civic work with its tools.
As we’re learning every day: that’s a lot of people. …
Audiences are migrating to the content creators, whose work is easier to trust, more fun to consume, and (often, not always) better at explaining what just happened. The simple principle of sharing good information — and watching out for the bad — has to migrate with it.
This is what he is trying to do:
News Creator Corps thought I could help. Help us explain what we’re doing, they said. Help us raise money to do it. So that’s my new gig, and probably my last project.
