Lara Setrakian: 3 ways to fix a broken news industry
لارا ستراكيان: 3 طرق لإصلاح تلف صناعة الأخبار
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in the Middle East
right around the end of 2007,
في نهاية 2007،
it was already nearly impossible
كان من المستحيل تقريبًا
عن العراق.
of them were about us.
under the weight of the war.
fallen off the agenda.
of all news stories in 2008
من مجمل القصص الإخبارية في عام 2008
شهدها تاريخ الولايات المتحدة،
explaining to their students
and sometimes dying overseas.
around crises in public health,
في مجال الصحة العامة،
the species-level issues,
قضايا على مستوى الأنواع،
they could actually sink us.
أن تتسبب في غرقِنا.
the complex issues of our time,
practical implications.
على هذه القضايا
were missing the story,
إلى القصة،
was falling apart,
for what would become the rise of ISIS,
to the rest of the world.
where I was making that observation,
story we were missing:
you knew that Syria was that important
لعلمت بأن سوريا كانت مهمة
of the Arab Spring.
to regional security,
بالأمن الإقليمي،
a website, called "Syria Deeply."
لبدء موقع إلكتروني، يسمى "Syria Deeply."
and information source
a complex issue,
it's been a resource
كان منْهَلًا
working on the conflict in Syria.
على الصراع في سوريا.
high-quality information,
وعلي معلومات ذات جودة عالية،
to do other things "Deeply."
للقيام بأمور أخرى "بعمق".
down the list.
with the news industry.
has hit an all-time low.
إلى أدنى مستوى على الإطلاق.
is from September --
تعود إلى سبتمبر--
I call myself an industrious optimist.
أنا أسمي نفسي بالعاملة المتفائلة.
a lot of us out there.
to make things better,
that we've picked up in our own work.
تلقيناها في عملنا.
on deep-domain knowledge.
على معرفة عميقة بالميدان.
at newsrooms across the country,
في غرف الأخبار بجميع أنحاء البلاد،
is by working with more local journalists,
بالعمل مع عدد أكبر من الصحفيين المحليين،
and collaborators,
كمساندين لنا،
phone numbers and sound bites.
أرقام هواتف وتسجيلات صوتية.
and across Africa and across Asia
وعبر أفريقيا وآسيا
would not have found on our own.
العثور عليها بمفردنا.
of Damascus, about a wheelchair race
حول سباق للكراسي المتحركة
to those wounded in the war.
who curbed the spread of Ebola
فيروس الإيبولا
a quarantine in his district.
to return home before they are ready,
على العودة إلى ديارهم قبل أن يتجهزوا،
that are important for all of us to know.
for the news industry,
لصناعة الأخبار،
مثلنا العليا،
could potentially harm society,
أن يضر المجتمع،
as a public service.
بذلنا قصارى جهدنا.
and sensational coverage,
sometimes completely wrong.
والخاطئة تمامًا في أحيان أخرى.
that that actually cost us in human lives,
أن هذا كلفنا حياة مجموعة من الأشخاص،
and by sometimes getting the facts wrong,
والحصول أحيانًا على وقائع خاطئة،
to make the right decisions.
اتخاذ القرارات الصائبة صعبًا.
how we got it wrong last time,
نفشل في المرة الأولى،
في المرة القادمة.
to use fear for ratings.
استخدام الخوف من التصنيفات.
in the individual newsroom
في غرفة الأخبار الفردية
that comes around
and the consequences much higher,
والعواقب وخيمة أكثر،
and it isn't right.
of a complex world.
because simple isn't accurate.
لأن البساطة غير دقيقة.
to get elbow deep in complexity
for everyone else to understand.
على الجميع.
just simple answers,
شديد الانحدار.
is the only way to know the real threats
لمعرفة التهديدات الحقيقية
to translate those threats
what it takes to be ready
لتكونوا مستعدين
out there doing great work --
this is a time of reawakening,
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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