Generative Dialogue Framework (GDF) and explores its potential as a pedagogical intervention. By bringing design-thinking practices, creativity, and deep-listening modalities into play, GDF could help reimagine the future of engaged journalism.

Generative Dialogue Framework (GDF) and explores its potential as a pedagogical intervention. By bringing design-thinking practices, creativity, and deep-listening modalities into play, GDF could help reimagine the future of engaged journalism.
In light of the media industry’s growing focus on audience engagement, this article explores how online and offline forms of engagement unfold within journalism, based on a comparative case study of two American public media newsrooms.
Abstract: Drawing on a structural theory of reciprocity, this essay introduces the idea of reciprocal journalism: a way of imagining how journalists might develop more mutually beneficial relationships with audiences across three forms of exchange—direct, indirect, and sustained types of reciprocity. We introduce this concept in the context of community journalism but also discuss its relevance for journalism broadly.