Reimagining the news: proposal to create a news app for blind and deaf people
o Include guiding principles that state the values, ethics and practice of your forum/model’s contributors.
• Who is our community?
o What location is our platform oriented for?
o Who does our platform serve?
o Who does it engage and why?
• Why does our model matter?
o Offer a justification. Why is this specific forum/model needed? How does it fill a need?
o What is our niche within the news ecosystem and within this community?
o Who are our competitors; how do we stand apart or how will we do better/different?
• What is our production strategy?
o Offer an organized, logical description of what this forum/model looks like.
o How will you go from idea to reality? Explain tactics you will use to create it; such as: who will
contribute to it; how will the content be produced, gathered and shared; how will the model reach people.
o What are our ideas for funding this project?
• How will we define and measure success & how will we grow?
o Define what you consider as success for this model/forum.
o State how you want this model to affect a community; suggest how you may know if the model is making this impact.
o Offer a vision beyond the launch. Paint a picture of what you want your model to look like and who your community will be in a year, five years or more.
• Exactly what is our content?
o Create and include a sample piece of content for your news–sharing model. Exactly what this means depends on your proposal. We will work together in class to define this requirement.
o Roughly speaking, this means that you could write a brief story, make a video, produce a podcast, or provide some other form of content that demonstrates what the community will be getting from you. Don’t panic about this requirement. I am NOT asking you to go out and report an investigative news story on top of everything else, or asking you to produce a big long news show on top of everything else. We will discuss what is appropriate for your group’s proposal. We will keep the expectations within reason!
• How will this model contribute to trust–building / engaging community members in civic responsibilities?
o Articulate how the model will contribute to repairing trust between the press and the public.
o Articulate how the model will engage a community, or how it will connect people to one another, and and/or how it will connect them to information they need to carry out civic responsibilities
