International Journalism Festival, Perugia, day 5! Today I was very, very happy. Do you want to know why? I WON’T TE…ok, fine, I’ll tell you. It all started with me getting up early, being tired, being hungry, being cold. Then I went on a tour with my fellow fellows Sandhya and Christine, to explore the (from us so far) unexplored areas from Umbria (= a state in Italy). What we did:
1) We visited a LOT of churches in different towns. Italians like saints, so visiting churches means visiting a lot of saints. And boy, I learned a lot about these people I’ve never heart from before. Santa Rita, San Benedetto (apparently a saint of Europe), etc. It was very interesting! Because of my completely missing knowledge about these saints in the first place, it could have been a tour of fictional characters as well. (I would like such a tour a lot.)
2) Then we visited a place called Castelluccio. It’s in a “high valley”, meaning, the valley itself is ca. 1400m over the sea level. It was cloudy and rainy and cold and windy and wonderful. The area around Castelluccio was basically one big meadow with mountains around it. Which was extremely beautiful. I’m also a fan of remote places, and of nature, and of “nothing here”, and that all came together and made me run around in excitement.
This whole area of Umbria was just mindblowingly wonderful. Think forests + mountains + small white stone villages on these mountains. I felt incredible privileged and grateful to be able to see such a wonderful part of the world. I almost didn’t care that the tour was supposed to be a half-day tour and then turned into a full-day tour, so that I only saw two talks in the evening.
Input? 3
Output? 3
Learnings?
Nothing succeeds like success.
“Solutions Journalism” is a subform of “Constructive Journalism”. Another subform might be “Engaged Journalism”. Solutions Journalism just shows you solutions, but doesn’t want to convince you to join campaigns. It’s not advocacy.
Questions?
In an ideal world, I would arrive at a conference and would immediately know who of the other attendees would help me the most in my thought processes. These are not necessarily the people who also are experts in the field I’m thinking about. So the question is: How do I come the closest to this ideal state? I feel like the answer includes “getting to know as many people as possible and asking them who else I should talk to”. Networks effects, yo.