Fancher: It takes a community to reinvent journalism

Source Center for Sustainable Journalism on June 24, 2010 0 Comments
Mike Fancher, Journalism ethics, Donald W. Reynolds fellow,
“Fancher: It takes a community to reinvent journalism,” Center for Sustainable Journalism, June 24, 2010.

Mike Fancher, former 20-year executive editor of the Seattle Times, is writing a Knight Commission white paper on local journalism and he tells Leonard Witt in this Future of Journalism video interview.

Leonard Witt: Hi. I’m Len Witt and I’m here with Mike Fancher. And both of us today were at the Aspen Institute to talk about basically, what’s the future of local journalism going to look like. And Mike has been asked, through the Knight Commission and the Aspen Institute, to kind of write a policy paper based on the Knight Informing Communities report about what might be some of the next steps to help recreate, reinvent journalism. So Mike, maybe you can pick up from there. You used to be the editor of a paper in Seattle?

Mike Fancher: Seattle Times. 20 years.

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