A proposal

Embed the new news room within a local community. Use design to create an inviting space to allow people to experience and participate in the discovery and production of news.

The proposal is to develop a physical space, open to all that is focused on news.

A number of props and tools can be developed and deployed in the space including:

The Issues Board

A space for people to add their issues and concerns

News Clippings

Encourage visitors to select their story of interest, add their thoughts

News Tree

Who owns / makes the news, visualisations to show how the news industry works, locally and nationally.

 

In many ways similar to the GlassRoom in NYC recently, a space to explore data and privacy, The News Room should be about what news is, what data is, what are facts , what is journalism and storytelling. It can be quite broad, images to words.

A physical space can host events, including:

Hacks/Hackers – A regular meetup.

A 1000 Words – invite people to talk about a single image and what it means, to them, to the world.