The phtrase that caught my attention in this article was this: "journalists need to foster direct relationships with sources so that the 'people formerly known as the audience' can feel as though they are part of a community that speaks through us." I think there's somthing to the ideas that the media facilitates a community's conversation with itself, rather than merely reporting and editorializing. Does this carry over to education generally and online learning specifically? It's not so much giving students a way to converse with themselves, though that's a part of it. Educators don't just report on and editorialize about a discipline. It seems to me that they support the wider disciplinary community having a way to converse with new practitioners. To me, this means having personal connections with practitioners, not organizational partnerships.
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