Journalism has to reinvent itself
The BCNMediaLab is born with these ideas in mind. They are just starting point we wanted to share.
- Journalism is not dead, and it will never die.
- It’s not about creating new journalism, but rethinking the basis of journalism itself. It’s about rebuilding.
- Self criticism is necessary to recover credibility.
- Journalism needs to regain its social function, its civic duty.
- Technological change has disrupted the chain of production and its added value. Business models change, but the profession itself changes too.
- Technology is a means to an end. It can be a great tool for better journalism, but, in order to explore it, research, creativity and will are needed.
- Journalism doesn’t exclusively belong anymore to its institutions and companies.
- We are concerned about how traditional journalism companies struggle to find profitable business models. We want to help explore new paths.
- For quality journalism to exist, journalists need appropriate legal and labour conditions.
- We don’t know how journalism will be in the future, because we’re the ones that will reinvent it.