Lara Setrakian: 3 ways to fix a broken news industry
Lara Setrakian: Tres formas de arreglar una industria de noticias deteriorada
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tenía el trabajo de mis sueños.
in the Middle East
right around the end of 2007,
it was already nearly impossible
ya era casi imposible
para transmitir al aire.
of them were about us.
las historias sobre Irak,
under the weight of the war.
bajo el peso de la guerra.
fallen off the agenda.
of all news stories in 2008
de todas las noticias en 2008
de la historia de EE. UU.
la información era tan escasa,
explaining to their students
para explicar a sus estudiantes
tenían a sus padres allí,
and sometimes dying overseas.
muriendo en el extranjero.
un espacio en blanco,
al cambio climático
around crises in public health,
con las crisis de salud pública,
the species-level issues,
cuestiones a nivel de especie,
they could actually sink us.
en realidad, nos podrían hundir.
the complex issues of our time,
complejos de nuestro tiempo,
practical implications.
ciertas implicaciones prácticas.
que trabajan en esos temas
were missing the story,
nos faltaba la historia,
se estaba desmoronando,
was falling apart,
lo que se convirtió en el ascenso de ISIS,
for what would become the rise of ISIS,
to the rest of the world.
al resto del mundo.
where I was making that observation,
en que observábamos esto,
story we were missing:
que nos faltaba:
you knew that Syria was that important
sabrían que Siria era muy importante
of the Arab Spring.
de la Primavera Árabe.
to regional security,
ligada a la seguridad regional,
ignorar aún más historias.
mi buen trabajo de TV
a website, called "Syria Deeply."
llamado "Siria Profundamente".
and information source
una fuente de noticias e información
a complex issue,
de un tema complejo,
it's been a resource
ha sido un recurso
working on the conflict in Syria.
que trabajan en el conflicto en Siria.
high-quality information,
consistente y de alta calidad,
mentes sobre el tema.
un modelo que escalaba.
to do other things "Deeply."
para hacer otras cosas "Profundamente".
down the list.
siguiendo la lista.
de las muchas nuevas empresas
lo que está mal con las noticias.
with the news industry.
con la industria de noticias.
ha alcanzado un mínimo histórico.
has hit an all-time low.
is from September --
es de septiembre,
I call myself an industrious optimist.
yo me denomino optimista aplicada.
a lot of us out there.
to make things better,
that we've picked up in our own work.
recogidas en nuestro propio trabajo.
on deep-domain knowledge.
en el conocimiento profundo del dominio.
at newsrooms across the country,
en las redacciones de todo el país,
el arte de la especialización.
es una cosa en peligro.
trabajando con más periodistas locales,
is by working with more local journalists,
and collaborators,
socios y colaboradores,
phone numbers and sound bites.
de teléfono y fragmentos de sonido.
and across Africa and across Asia
en Siria y en África y Asia
would not have found on our own.
no habríamos encontrado solos.
of Damascus, about a wheelchair race
sobre una carrera de sillas de ruedas
to those wounded in the war.
a los heridos en la guerra.
who curbed the spread of Ebola
la propagación del ébola
a quarantine in his district.
una cuarentena en su distrito.
to return home before they are ready,
regresar antes de estar preparados,
son nuestros mentores.
that are important for all of us to know.
importantes que todos sepamos.
hipocrático para la industria de noticias,
for the news industry,
de nuestros propios ideales,
could potentially harm society,
podría dañar a la sociedad,
as a public service.
del periodismo como servicio público.
Hicimos lo que pudimos.
and sensational coverage,
sometimes completely wrong.
completamente equivocado.
that that actually cost us in human lives,
que eso cuesta vidas humanas,
and by sometimes getting the facts wrong,
y por transmitir hechos equivocados,
to make the right decisions.
tomar las decisiones correctas.
how we got it wrong last time,
cómo nos equivocamos la última vez,
to use fear for ratings.
de usar el miedo para las calificaciones.
in the individual newsroom
en la redacción individual
de noticias individual.
that comes around
and the consequences much higher,
y las consecuencias mucho mayores,
and it isn't right.
responsable y es equivocada.
of a complex world.
a un mundo complejo.
because simple isn't accurate.
porque lo simple no es preciso.
to get elbow deep in complexity
nos obliga a profundizar en complejidad
for everyone else to understand.
que todos entiendan.
just simple answers,
a un acantilado escarpado.
manera de conocer las amenazas reales
is the only way to know the real threats
to translate those threats
traducir esas amenazas
what it takes to be ready
preparados y saber qué es necesario
para lo que venga después.
lo que está deteriorado.
out there doing great work --
haciendo un gran trabajo.
this is a time of reawakening,
este es un tiempo de despertar,
lo que está deteriorado.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Lara Setrakian - JournalistLara Setrakian is building innovative news platforms that stand ready to engage and explain the complexity of our world.
Why you should listen
Lara Setrakian is the co-founder and CEO of News Deeply, a startup that creates news platforms and builds passionate communities centered on the most pressing issues of our time. Her team's inaugural site, Syria Deeply, launched in 2012 and won the 2013 Excellence in Online Journalism Award from the National Press Foundation. The team went on to launch Ebola Deeply, Water Deeply, Arctic Deeply, Refugees Deeply and the Women & Girls Hub; the model is expanding to cover new topics in environment, public health, geopolitics and social impact. Each site is staffed by beat reporters and editors with substantial experience of the subjects they cover and augmented by a network of contributors, commentators and area experts who share their perspectives.
A hard-edged optimist, Lara believes in building innovative news platforms that are rooted in public service, that stand ready to engage and explain the complexity of our world. She also believes that there are successful media business models to be built -- ones that capturing the value of specialized information and the power of targeted reader communities. By fusing news and community, journalism and product design, she is developing a way to sustain in-depth and continuous coverage of vital issues. In light of that work Inc Magazine called her one of "8 Women Who Could Own the Future," while Fast Company named her one of the "Most Creative People in Business."
Before starting News Deeply, Setrakian was Middle East correspondent for ABC News and Bloomberg Television. She grew up in New Jersey, the daughter of hard-working Armenian-Americans who raised her to value grit, resilience, and resolve. To document News Deeply's journey and lessons from other great startups in the trenche she coauthored a study of single-subject news models as part of a fellowship at Columbia University's Tow Center for Digital Journalism. Her work at News Deeply has been featured in Fast Company, Mashable, Inc, TechCrunch, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, ABC News, NPR and CNN.
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