Joseph B Treaster Knight Chair

Duration: 3 minutes and 28 seconds

Country: United States

Language: English

License: CC - Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives

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Producer: Knight Center for International Media

Director: Knight Center for International Media

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Posted by: trevorg on Apr 30, 2009

Joseph B Treaster Knight Chair for Cross-Cultural Communication talking about 1H2O.ORG and the difference between news paper reporting vs online editing. Edited by Trevor Green

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Well, 1h2o is a very special creature
It is a.. it focuses on water, water issues all over the world.
We distinguish ourselves in one way
and that is by creating almost entirely original material.
All the material on the website really is original.
We have writers around the world who are living in this world of water crisis,
as we say it.
They are writers and they are taking to their neighbors and others in the region.
So, we are hearing local voices,
we are hearing them in a worldwide context.
So I think we are doing something important and quite different.
The challenge here is to find a way to tell the local story.
And tell it in a way that the world can understand it.
So, I find myself working as editor and coach
and, in many cases, friend
with the writers, talking about what it is they want to write and
and what it is we need to do to make it
understandable, intelligible to the rest of the world.
Sometime it is as simple as an unusual phrase or term
that is only regional.
Other times it is a ...
... the classic communication process
of shorter, sharper, more staccato sentences.
Everyone of us has a tendency to write long, long sentences
and it is hard to follow.
So, it is a exciting thing because
the stories that we know are out there
and that we are discovering
are really moving stories.
And it is not really much of a stretch
to get that local story into a form that the world can understand it
and then the impact is enormous.
There are actually a lot of similarities in working on this particular startup
and being a reporter who has work on big stories all over the word,
the United States and many other countries.
In both cases you really need a lot of enterprise, a lot of entrepreneurialship.
You have to find the stories,
you have to figure out how to put those stories into terms that
people back home, and in another countries, can read them.
I have always worked for a newspaper,
or mostly work for a newspaper
that was worldwide.
So I have that worldwide perspective as an audience
and now I come to this Internet, website,
and I am not just the correspondent now,
I am the editor, I am the photo editor,
I am the copy editor
I am in some cases even making myself think like the publisher and the advertising director.
We want to know what are all the ramifications of
what we see in this Internet website
that can have the most impact.
I really believe strongly in the subject we are working with
and just as I always believed in my stories
when I was producing one at the time
now I got this, this
kind of a theater, almost orchestra, working together
and we are getting very good response,
and it is quite rewarding.

Joseph B Treaster Knight Chair

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