The picture is wrong, we are leaving out some important aspects of news: Ulrik Haagerup, Constructing Tomorrow’s News
10 March 2020 · News
Ulrik Haagerup, Founder and CEO of the Constructive Institute for journalism is the keynote speaker today at a Judith Nielsen Institute function titled Constructing Tomorrow's News.
Haagerup is known...
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Tags: future of journalism | journalism | News | Ulrik Haagerup
Assuming he has been quoted accurately, this is a surprisingly simplistic view from Haagerup.
There are many reasons behind the decline in trust of news media including the rise of social media, constant attacks from politicians and the media's disinclination to defend itself. Negative news is reported because that is what the public wants to hear/read. We live in an era of measurable audience engagement and the harsh fact is that people do not consumer 'positive' news as voraciously as they do the harder stuff.
Rocknews, thanks for your comment, which deserves clarification, so as not to do an injustice to Ulrik Haagerup.
He did indeed make the point that he was not advocating 'good news' stories or negating the importance of news values, he was just urging stories to be well rounded. For example, if there are stories with angles such as 'Deadly Corona Virus' they should also carry the information that the virus is not deadly to more than 80% of people who catch it, and that this should be in every story. We took it to be his main point.
We assumed the normal protocols of journalism to be a given, but you have rightly pointed out that we should have made mention of them in the story for our own well-rounded reporting.
Thanks for pointing it out. We will amend the story accordingly.