By Deron Dalton
You might think social journalism is the same as social media, but not exactly!
Quite frankly, I’m tired of people thinking that they are equivalent, although it’s an understandable misconception.
CUNY Graduate School of Journalism’s defining M.A. in social journalism program should be the industry’s standard. As a member of the inaugural class, I’m here to share how social journalism is much more than the usage of social media tools and how its process helped me serve the Black Lives Matter community journalistically.
Social journalism recasts journalism as a service to help communities reach goals and solve problems through the following principles:
1. Listening
2. Building relationships and trust
3. Engagement
4. Community collaboration
5. Finding solutions to a public’s needs
It’s a new frontier of journalism — encompassing many other aspects of journalism — including human-centered design, development, citizen journalism, advocacy journalism, solutions journalism and entrepreneurial journalism.
Read more via BLK Social Journalist on Medium.