The most recent world events demand from our best newspapers what INNOVATION calls “scenarios journalism.”
Some examples:
Fidel Castro has terminal cancer. What’s Next in Cuba? Let’s present to our readers different “scenarios” for what could be a dramatic or peaceful transition.
United States has a new Congress and Senate. What’s Next in Iraq?
Saddam Hussein, North Korea, Russia after Putin, OPEC…
“Scenarios Journalism” is not speculation, like “news analysis” is not opinion.
I know that the traditional “just the facts,. baby” School of Journalism will be reluctant to these new ways to present and explain the news “behind and after” the news, but readers need more.
We need to become “intelligent units” and I am please to see more and more good examples of this new trend.
And to find good syndicate services that offer high quality new content in this direction.
Welcome to the future.
Welcome to the “add-value journalism.”
And welcome too to the new “scenarios journalism.”
