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