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Math and the new journalism

Posted in News by FatSteve 43 days ago
Last week I wrote a piece called Year Zero for Journalism. Doc Searls. , ever the phrase-turner, called it Journalism 0.0. Jay and I call our podcast. Rebooting The News. Year Zero. 0.0. Rebooting. Thinking of the new in terms of the old is not productive. Wondering how we will continue to do what-we-always-have-done is not going to get us closer to the future way of journalism. So. What does this new journalism look like? Let's figure it out! I was a math major, so I spent a few years in my early adulthood learning how to find true things about conceptual spaces. As you advance through math the world your thoughts occupy gets stranger and more and more unlike the space our bodies occupy. Turns out that was good training for a mind that has to grasp things like journalism with a completely different set of rules. I remember taking a class in summer school. in a subject called Real Analysis, that's on the road to Topology. It was one of the hardest classes I took, and I got a good grade

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