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Is the future “innovation journalism”?

Tom Foremski of ZDnet.com writes about “innovation journalism,” which he says is a form that goes beyond tech or business journalism and has the potential to influence society and government.

Foremski writes, “Mr Nordfors believes that journalism is stuck in silos: a story is either about politics, business, arts, sports, celebrity, etc. Innovation journalism is about reporting stories that cut across these silos and producing a far more valuable form of journalism about an important subject.

“It’s certainly a more fulfilling form of journalism for a reporter, and one that produces a more interesting story for readers. So why don’t we see more of this type of reporting?

“That was a question I was asked by Burton Lee, who gave a presentation about his work in helping countries build centers of innovation, as part of the European Entrepreneurship and Innovation program from Stanford University.

“His talk highlighted the importance of innovation journalism in building self-sustaining innovation ecosystems. Yet newspapers and media the world over, are all compartmentalized in their coverage: it’s either world, local, business, tech, sports, arts, etc, news. Why is that?”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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