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Frances Moore Lappé

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Why Sharing News About Solutions is a Revolutionary Act

"If it bleeds, it leads." Ever hear that maxim of journalism? If you want readers, go with the scary, gruesome story — that's what gets hearts pumping and grabs attention. But what grabs our attention can also scare the heck out of us and shut us down.

Lisa Coppin

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Generative Journalism Workshop Sparks Life-changing Conversations

On May 15 I was one of 30 participants in a workshop on generative journalism led by Peter Pula, CEO and founder of Axiom News. We were all former participants and students in Appreciative Inquiry (AI) networks. It was my first formal encounter with generative journalism, but being an AI practitioner, what Peter told us sounded familiar. At the same time it was very provocative.

Michelle Strutzenberger

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Converging the Efforts of ‘Awakened’ Media Folk

Much of the time we at Axiom News feel like exiles in the wilderness for the alternative news ecology we’re trying to create here.

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Workplace Journalism Sparks Family Reunion

It was the kind of deeply heartwarming, unanticipated outcome we love to hear about at Axiom News.

A New Conversation about Journalism
Axiom News founder and CEO Peter Pula led a session on generative journalism in Amsterdam recently. Some delegates, including a city communications advisor and local newspaper editor, share what they will be doing differently in their own work as a result. Read more.
 

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Generative Journalism Gets Uptake in Europe
Peter Pula hosts workshop on approach with communications advisors, journalists from Belgium, the Netherlands

At the invitation of a City of Amsterdam team and Belgian news agency, Peter Pula of Axiom News met with a group in Europe in mid-May to share what the company has learned about what it’s come to call generative journalism.

One Step Closer to Nationwide Co-ops News Network
BC Co-operative Association starts generative news program

When the Alberta Community and Co-operative Association (ACCA) launched its news program in April 2012, the organization had the dream of eventually seeing a cross-Canada online news network where other co-operatives and co-operative associations could share their news.

BCCA Launches News Program to Share Co-op Movement’s Successes
‘Sharing successes is a positive way to engage more people in the effort to bring about social change’

The British Columbia Co-operative Association (BCCA) has a lot of member success stories and important information to share with its members, partners, stakeholders and the public, and the organization, which has more than 80 B.C. member co-ops and credit unions, is launching a news program to aggregate these stories.

Enterprising Non-profits Adds a Newsroom
Axiom News Makes Democratic Workplace List
Epilepsy Ontario Applauds News Service for Its Work During Crisis

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Belgian Tourism Arm Pilots Generative News
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Axiom-inspired News Org Now in Belgium
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New Video Products Rapid Prototyped

A group of Axiom News team members and interested stakeholders from diverse sectors, including Green Communities Canada's Bruce Roxburgh and Doug Tilley, high school student Amber Pula and multimedia professionals Terry Gavan, Patricia Marcoccia and Emily Craigen gathered this week to rapid prototype video products that could also wind up as new generative journalism services this summer. The voluntary convening was a sharing of strengths and resources, with the expectation that everyone who participated would take away something to use in his or her own work.

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Is Journalism's Ultimate Test Happening Now?

Environmental activist and journalist Bill McKibben challenged fellow journalists at a recent conference to see climate-change reporting as the ultimate test of journalism’s value. "We'll find out whether the journalistic method was a good idea or not . . . whether it serves the early-warning function we need it to serve or not,” said McKibben. He concluded his presentation with the point that finding out ways, without much money, to stand up to large amounts of money, is what the best journalism has been about from the beginning. "It’s figuring out how to take power and status quo and put reality in its face and knock it down a peg or two," he said, adding that the natural outcome of good journalism is to make people care and "go do something about something." More

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New Narrative for Business Accelerating

The so-far slow moving story of business evolving into a way to organize human effort explicitly for the good of society and planet has been narrated in these pages for a little over a decade. We are a long way from those first whispers of social capital and corporate social responsibility.

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