Lara Setrakian: 3 ways to fix a broken news industry
Lara Setrakijan (Lara Setrakian): Tri načina da se popravi pokvarena industrija vesti
Lara Setrakian is building innovative news platforms that stand ready to engage and explain the complexity of our world. Full bio
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in the Middle East
na Bliskom Istoku
right around the end of 2007,
tačno krajem 2007,
it was already nearly impossible
već je bilo skoro nemoguće
of them were about us.
under the weight of the war.
fallen off the agenda.
of all news stories in 2008
svih priloga u vestima 2008.
sa kojima smo razgovarali
explaining to their students
da objasne svojim đacima
and sometimes dying overseas.
o Iraku i Avganistanu.
around crises in public health,
u vezi sa krizom u javnom zdravstvu,
the species-level issues,
problemima na nivou vrste
they could actually sink us.
ovi problemi mogli da unište.
the complex issues of our time,
složene probleme našeg vremena,
practical implications.
praktičnim implikacijama.
da pratimo u realnom vremenu
koji rade na tim problemima
were missing the story,
was falling apart,
for what would become the rise of ISIS,
za ono što će postati uspon ISIS-a,
to the rest of the world.
where I was making that observation,
kad sam postajala svesna toga,
story we were missing:
you knew that Syria was that important
znali biste da je Sirija veoma važna
of the Arab Spring.
Arapskog proleća.
to regional security,
sa regionalnom bezbednošću,
koju smo zapostavili.
a website, called "Syria Deeply."
kako bih osnovala vebsajt: "Syria Deeply".
and information source
i izvor informacija
a complex issue,
složenih pitanja,
it's been a resource
sajt je bio izvor
working on the conflict in Syria.
koji rade na konfliktu u Siriji.
high-quality information,
visokog kvaliteta
po tom pitanju.
koji može da se širi.
to do other things "Deeply."
da i drugo obrađujemo u "Deeply"-ju.
down the list.
drugim stvarima sa spiska.
od mnogih preduzetnika,
od mnogih start-ap firmi
loše strane vesti.
with the news industry.
has hit an all-time low.
je dostiglo istorijski minimum.
is from September --
je od septembra -
I call myself an industrious optimist.
ja sebe nazivam marljivim optimistom.
a lot of us out there.
to make things better,
that we've picked up in our own work.
do kojih smo došli tokom našeg rada.
on deep-domain knowledge.
na istinskom poznavanju materije.
at newsrooms across the country,
u redakcijama širom naše države,
is by working with more local journalists,
radeći sa više lokalnih novinara,
and collaborators,
partnere i saradnike,
phone numbers and sound bites.
brojeve telefona i zvučne isečke.
and across Africa and across Asia
i širom Afrike i Azije
would not have found on our own.
sami ne bismo otkrili.
of Damascus, about a wheelchair race
o trci u invalidskim kolicima
to those wounded in the war.
who curbed the spread of Ebola
koji je obuzdao širenje ebole
a quarantine in his district.
karantin u svojoj oblasti.
to return home before they are ready,
da se vrate domovima pre vremena,
that are important for all of us to know.
koje je važno svi mi da znamo.
for the news industry,
Hipokratova zakletva za industriju vesti,
nećemo nanositi štetu.
could potentially harm society,
može da nanese štetu društvu,
as a public service.
da je novinarstvo u službi javnosti.
kako pokrivamo krizu o eboli.
Dali sve od sebe.
and sensational coverage,
i senzacionalističkim vestima,
sometimes completely wrong.
ponekad potpuno pogrešnim.
that that actually cost us in human lives,
da nas je to koštalo ljudskih života
and by sometimes getting the facts wrong,
i povremenim grešenjem kod činjenica,
to make the right decisions.
donošenje pravilnih odluka.
how we got it wrong last time,
u čemu smo grešili poslednji put,
to use fear for ratings.
da koristimo strah zarad rejtinga.
in the individual newsroom
u pojedinačnim redakcijama
izvršnim urednicima vesti.
that comes around
and the consequences much higher,
i da posledice budu mnogo veće,
and it isn't right.
nije odgovorno i ispravno.
of a complex world.
because simple isn't accurate.
jer jednstavnost nije tačna.
to get elbow deep in complexity
je da zagazimo do lakata u složenost
for everyone else to understand.
kako da ostali lakše razumeju.
just simple answers,
samo jednostavni odgovori,
is the only way to know the real threats
da se spoznaju istinske pretnje
to translate those threats
da prevedemo te pretnje
da razumete šta je stvarno,
what it takes to be ready
i da znate kako da se pripremite
da popravimo ono što je pokvareno.
out there doing great work --
koji rade odličan posao -
this is a time of reawakening,
da je ovo vreme novog buđenja,
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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