Howard Owens escreveu há dias o post Maybe it’s journalism itself that is the problem. Nele defende um imperativo: “Discovering a journalism that does what journalism should do — match the needs of society rather than dictate to society what people should want from journalism — will be real hard work, and it will challenge assumptions and afflict comfortable mind sets”. E prossegue, agora, com Ten things journalists can do to reinvent journalism. O resumo:

• Stop writing for the front page.
• Stop treating journalism like a competition.
• Stop submitting your stories to reporting and writing competitions.
• Listen more closely to your readers.
• Put more people in your stories and fewer titles.
• Don’t cover process. Cover real stories.
• Be a subject-matter expert.
• Forget the false-promise of objectivity.
• Be accurate. Always.
• Cover your community like it is your hometown.