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<h2 align="center">Jazz
and Journalism:
Reporting with
Improvisation</h2>
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<b><br>
Laura Amico,
Nieman-Berkman
Fellow in Journalism
Innovation</b><br>
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<div align="center">Today,
6.30 pm<br>
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Webcast live: <a
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hspace="3">Improvisation
theories, drawn
mostly from jazz,
have increasingly
been applied to
entrepreneurship,
new product
development, and
other fields, but
rarely, if ever, to
journalism. Yet
journalism is an
industry built on
improvisation, from
the actions of
reporters out in the
field, to the
deadline work of
editors and page
designers. More
than that, it is an
industry that needs
a new framework in
order to survive.
Journalists must, I
believe, be more
agile, more open,
more listening, and
more willing to work
as teams, take
chances and
improvise, if they
are to succeed.<br>
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At this luncheon,
Laura will present
her preliminary
ideas on
improvisation theory
and jazz in news
development, arguing
for a journalism
framework that
builds new culture
out of
improvisation.<br>
<h3>About Laura</h3>
Laura Amico is a
Nieman-Berkman
fellow in journalism
innovation. Her work
focuses on building
more effective
strategies for
newsrooms to cover
beats and build
community
engagement. <br>
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Laura is CEO of
Glass Eye Media, the
company behind
Homicide Watch, a
Washington,
D.C.-based website
for data-driven
coverage of violent
crime that was
recognized as a
notable entry in the
2011 Knight-Batten
Awards for
Innovation in
Journalism. News
organizations and
universities
including the Sun
Times, Digital First
Media, and
University of
Colorado Boulder
have partnered with
Glass Eye Media to
license the
technology and use
the community-driven
approach to
journalism that
Glass Eye Media
advocates. In 2013,
Homicide Watch DC
won the Knight award
for public service
journalism, was a
finalist in the
general excellence
category for news
sites by the Online
News Association,
and received a
special citation
from the National
Press Foundation for
online journalism. <br>
<br>
Laura has reported
for the
Register-Pajaronian
and The Press
Democrat in
California, received
a New York Times
Chairman?s Award,
and held fellowships
with the Online News
Association and the
Harry Frank
Guggenheim Symposium
on Crime in America.<br>
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