Lara Setrakian: 3 ways to fix a broken news industry
Lara Setrakian: Bozuk bir haber endüstrisini düzeltmenin 3 yolu
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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mesleğine kavuştum.
in the Middle East
muhabir olarak
gerektiğini düşündüğüm
right around the end of 2007,
sonlarına doğru geldim
it was already nearly impossible
Irak'ta neler olduğuna
of them were about us.
under the weight of the war.
kaçırıyorduk.
fallen off the agenda.
of all news stories in 2008
ilgili toplam haber oranı
explaining to their students
hatta ölen
and sometimes dying overseas.
açıklamakta zorlandıklarını belirttiler.
savaştan değil,
krizde olan karmaşa ortamlarına,
around crises in public health,
halkın sağlık durumuna
the species-level issues,
adlandırdığım her şeyi ıskalıyorduk.
they could actually sink us.
onlar bizi batırabilirler
the complex issues of our time,
anlayamayarak
practical implications.
tehlike sinyalleri yayıyorduk.
nasıl çözebilirdik?
were missing the story,
was falling apart,
for what would become the rise of ISIS,
gereken şartları sağlarken
to the rest of the world.
where I was making that observation,
story we were missing:
olduğunu gördüm;
you knew that Syria was that important
Suriye'nin en baştan beri önemli
of the Arab Spring.
hikâyelerinden biri oldu.
önceden fark ettim.
to regional security,
bölgesel güvenliğe,
diye düşündüm.
a website, called "Syria Deeply."
"Derinlemesine Suriye" sitesini kurdum.
and information source
a complex issue,
it's been a resource
ve Suriye'deki çatışmalar
working on the conflict in Syria.
için bir referans hâline geldi.
high-quality information,
elverişli olduğunu gördük.
to do other things "Deeply."
yapmamızı isteyen teklifler aldık.
down the list.
with the news industry.
has hit an all-time low.
is from September --
Eylül ayındaki istatistikler
I call myself an industrious optimist.
ben kendime 'iyimser işletmeci' diyorum.
a lot of us out there.
olduğunu biliyorum.
to make things better,
için parlak fikirlerimiz var.
that we've picked up in our own work.
paylaşmak istiyorum.
on deep-domain knowledge.
ihtiyacımız var.
at newsrooms across the country,
işten çıkarılma şokuyla
tehlikeye atılmaktır.
is by working with more local journalists,
yerli gazeteciler ile çalışmak,
and collaborators,
phone numbers and sound bites.
açıklamalar getiren iş bitiriciler değil.
and across Africa and across Asia
yerli muhabirlerimiz
would not have found on our own.
haberleri getiriyorlar bize.
of Damascus, about a wheelchair race
tekerlekli sandalye yarışı gibi olayların
to those wounded in the war.
who curbed the spread of Ebola
bölgesinde kendi imkânlarıyla
a quarantine in his district.
Afgan sığınmacıların
to return home before they are ready,
tehdidi ve gözdağıyla Afganistan'a
that are important for all of us to know.
haberleri ulaştırırlar.
for the news industry,
büyük bir ant içmeye ihtiyacımız var.
could potentially harm society,
as a public service.
gazetecilikten uzaklaşmışız demektir.
elimizden geleni yaptık.
and sensational coverage,
bazen doğru bazen yanlış
sometimes completely wrong.
that that actually cost us in human lives,
pek çok insanın hayatına mal olduğunu,
and by sometimes getting the facts wrong,
bazen de yanlış bilgi vererek
to make the right decisions.
karar vermesine engelliyor.
how we got it wrong last time,
yanlış yaptığımızı görmemiz
to use fear for ratings.
in the individual newsroom
haber odalarında,
that comes around
and the consequences much higher,
and it isn't right.
sorumlu davranmazsa, yanlış yapıyoruzdur.
of a complex world.
kabullenmek zorundayız.
because simple isn't accurate.
değerlendirmemek,
to get elbow deep in complexity
karmaşıklığa el atmak
for everyone else to understand.
anlaşılmasını sağlamaktır.
just simple answers,
varsayarsak,
sürüklüyoruz demektir.
is the only way to know the real threats
muhtemel gerçek tehditleri
to translate those threats
gerektiği gibi yorumlayıp,
what it takes to be ready
gerekenleri anlamanıza
düzeltebileceğimize inanıyorum.
out there doing great work --
muazzam gazeteciler var.
neler yapabildiğimizi
this is a time of reawakening,
vakti olduğuna inanıyorum.
düzeltebileceğimize inanıyorum.
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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