My friend Joy Mayer at the University of Missouri has me thinking about analogies again.
Joy is an associate professor at Missouri’s School of Journalism and is currently serving as a fellow at the Reynolds Journalism Institute there. I’ve written about Joy before. In my 17 years as a newsroom manager, I hired a lot of good and smart people. If you forced me to name the best of that lot, Joy would be the one.
Anyway, Joy is like me in some key ways (which may be why I like her so much). She thinks in analogies, and she has provided me with a few very useful ones to add to my already large collection.
In her fellowship at RJI, she’s working on the issue of engagement. That’s a word that has become cliché in both the journalism and the philanthropic world; we all talk about the need to engage communities, but the word is mushy and means something different to everyone.
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