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| Id | 789 | |
| Author | Mihailidis P., Gamwell A. | |
| Title | Designing Engagement in Local News: Using FOIA Requests to Create Inclusive Participatory Journalism Practices | |
| Reference | Mihailidis P., Gamwell A.; Designing Engagement in Local News: Using FOIA Requests to Create Inclusive Participatory Journalism Practices ;Journalism Practice vol: issue: page: |
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| Link to article | https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85091090865&doi=10.1080%2f17512786.2020.1819381&partnerID=40&md5=83d531fb6677804813d690eeb06c5b35 |
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| Abstract | This study explores how an engaged journalism process supported by participatory design practices can impact attitudes and perceptions of audience engagement in local journalism. Using MuckRock’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) submission tool, journalists, journalism students, and community stakeholders engaged in participatory design workshops centered around pressing local issues and creative approaches to filing FOIA requests. This study re-imagines FOI requests not just as a way to locate source material for important local reporting, but as a visible process that invites the public to engage and understand how that reporting is done — and how anyone can use and benefit from the process. Findings show that design-driven engagement journalism practices can make public records culture more inclusive, engaging, and accessible, and support more collaborative and creative engagement between journalists and audiences. © 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. |
Designing Engagement in Local News: Using FOIA Requests to Create Inclusive Participatory Journalism Practices. The emergence of data journalism has brought the FOIA to the forefront of research that explores how to attain and use public data for robust reporting projects. The nancial and bureaucratic pressures facing FOI combined with the lack of enforce- ment for FOI policies have called into question how best to prepare journalists to use the FOIA especially when journalists are increasingly working independently as local news organizations continue to shutter. These concerns stem from a need to both be relevant to industry norms and attentive to the new skills and competencies needed to report in a digital age when audiences are agile expressive and closer to the publishing process. In responding to a question about working with communities one participant remarked FOI requests can be very empow- ering for people that feel alienated from not just you know government but a sense of power over government.
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