Karel van den BergWindesheim School of Media

BEA IGNITE

Pattern Breaking News

My firstjournalistic tool (1986)

Little has

changed

new

questions

Intellectual tradeknown

answers

News might start

with an event, journalism

always starts with an

idea

Why don’t you

teach them

their most

valuable tool?!

Freelancejournalist

(2009)

Uh...

Please stand by

Waiting for connection

with the right brain

Deadlinesdon’t wait

Journalists rarely dance or

finger-paint

Journalistic creativity

50 news room meetings

150 journalists

Journalistic box

Expert

Creativity =breaking patterns

You teach

them patt

erns!

creativity

imagination

postponementof judgement

journalism

facts

critical thinking

PARADOXES

credits: Reporters Without Borders

journalistic creativity

keep looking

keep thinking

keep asking

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With

out B

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rs

PARALLEL

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why

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find withinthe topic

associate withother

situations

...but also

how

to break them

!

So teach ‘emjournalistic patterns...