Peggy Holman

Peggy Holman is cofounder and director of Journalism That Matters, sparking numerous initiatives that are influencing the new media landscape. As an author and consultant, Holman has helped explore a nascent field of social technologies that enable diverse groups to face complex issues by turning presentation into conversation and passivity into participation. In The Change Handbook, she & her co-authors profile 61 practices that engage people in creating their desired future. Her award-winning Engaging Emergence: Turning Upheaval into Opportunity provides stories, principles, and practices that form a roadmap for tackling complex challenges.

Whither journalism?

“An unintended consequence of objectivity is a distancing so great that some communities are left feeling unseen or misunderstood. This attitude, not new technologies, is the root of journalism’s disappearing audience.”

By Peggy Holman

/ 26 Oct 2017