Check out the NewsTrust Salon Video

Check out this short video from our first NewsTrust Salon on Good Journalism, held on February 7, 2008 in San Francisco. This group discussion brought together 26 journalists, educators, technologists and community leaders from organizations like Current TV, Google, Mother Jones and Stanford University. During the salon, we invited participants to break up into small groups, to evaluate a news article for fairness, sourcing, context and other core principles of journalism.

[or check the original on YouTube.]

We're very excited about the potential of this salon format: it's a promising social learning tool for developing news literacy skills in news consumers - and we hope to bring this service to high school and college students very soon. It's a great way to help people find good journalism together, and is a natural extension of our online social news network.

This salon was led by the NewsTrust editorial team, including Fabrice Florin, Rory O'Connor, Kaizar Campwala and David Cohn -- as well as our gracious hosts Terry Gamble and Peter Boyer. The video was shot by David Fox and edited by Ray Nowosielski, with music by Mobius. We'd like to thank them all for their fine work, and for helping spread the word with our community. To find out more about this first salon and who's featured in this video, check our earlier blog post and meeting notes.

Our next two salons will be held in Miami on February 28 and New York on March 18, 2008. If you are an active NewsTrust reviewer and wish to join one of these salons, please email us to find out more. In the meantime, here's some info about the Miami Salon.

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NEWSTRUST SALON - MIAMI
Thursday, Feb. 28 at 2:00pm - (1 hour)
University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL
Storer Auditorium - 2nd floor Meeting Room

Join a fascinating group discussion on how to find good journalism online, hosted by NewsTrust.net, a nonprofit social news network devoted to quality journalism.

This stimulating group discussion will bring together a diverse group of journalists, educators, technologists, community leaders and concerned citizens. As a group, we will evaluate a news article for fairness, sourcing, context and other core principles of journalism. We will then discuss best practices for helping people develop their news literacy skills, and become more discriminating news consumers.

Some of the questions we'll discuss in this session include:
* what is good journalism? how can you tell it apart from misinformation?
* how can we join forces online to share quality news with each other?
* how can we encourage more citizens to grow their news literacy skills?
* how can we improve NewsTrust.net to serve these goals?

During the meeting, we will briefly introduce what we're doing at NewsTrust to address these questions-- and ask your thoughts on how to best expand this public service -- to help more citizens make informed decisions about their lives and governments.

Session leaders: Fabrice Florin, Rory O'Connor and David Cohn, NewsTrust.net

Featured guests: NewsTrust Host Dale Penn and other NewsTrust members based in Florida

Maximum 25 participants. Please RSVP to reserve a spot -- and check this blog for more details on this and other NewsTrust Salons.