https://partnews.mit.edu/2013/02/26/reporter-as-a-connector-of-curious-citizens/ Treating newsgathering as an engineering problem... since 2012! Wed, 27 Feb 2013 18:19:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2 https://partnews.mit.edu/2013/02/26/reporter-as-a-connector-of-curious-citizens/#comment-6046 Wed, 13 Mar 2013 15:12:46 +0000 http://partnews.brownbag.me/?p=1911#comment-6046 Just from browsing some of the recent questions, I don’t think that the types of questions asked are all just fun stuff. For example, recently a listener asked “Has the Deep Tunnel project delivered significant benefits other than employment, and at what cost to residents?” And currently, Curious City is investigating the question “Why do neighborhoods sometimes change from really good to really bad in the span of a block?” These aren’t really “newsy” questions, but I think they hint at the beginnings of deeper investigative pieces.

]]> https://partnews.mit.edu/2013/02/26/reporter-as-a-connector-of-curious-citizens/#comment-4366 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 18:19:04 +0000 http://partnews.brownbag.me/?p=1911#comment-4366 I love this example. In your study of it, do you find that the public is still interested in the types of questions are ardent journalist might have previously had to push to the public? Or is it all fun stuff?

]]> https://partnews.mit.edu/2013/02/26/reporter-as-a-connector-of-curious-citizens/#comment-4333 Tue, 26 Feb 2013 20:20:40 +0000 http://partnews.brownbag.me/?p=1911#comment-4333 Extremely helpful, both in terms of presenting a rich example worth our study, and in proposing a framework for thinking about what we’d like news to be: something communities can congregate around.

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