A sleepy Sunday unless you are a journalist or creative; if you are, you opened the right newsletter today. A paper newspaper may be heading for the archives, but journalism is not, and great journalists will always be needed. Rick Ruben wrote his first book on creativity, and The Hubspot Hustle team gives us a few shower thoughts for the day. Consequence launches a new weekly roundup video, and Haim gives us a great summer tune for Sunday!

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Nieman Lab is an organization working to help journalism transition to the digital frontier. This is a concept With A Shout supports; I have been in journalism since the 90s when I started as a columnist in a business journal. One of my companies worked with Alt Weeklies, helping several incorporate digital services to offset the reduction in print advertising. A relationship that continues today. Journalism has stayed the same; the goal continues to provide the public with reliable and objective information. 

This story will develop with several pieces over the next week. This first highlight is on research, followed by confirmation and distribution. New technology has changed how journalism is produced; the key is to enhance the product and give voice and access to all markets, especially the underserved. New technology has increased the speed and reach of information, making it even more critical for journalists to report on what is happening in the US and the world.

Libraries and microfiche, watch any old movie with a newsroom, and someone will say they are going to the stacks for research, or you will see them looking at the old newspaper on a sort of film/projector machine turning a manual dial through old papers. These days, we call that the Internet; tomorrow, we will type what we want into a prompt, and AI will give us everything we want. Research is critical, and training journalists in ALL the ways you can research will improve the product the rest of us get to read.

A great journalist must be curious, objective, and determined; these strong characteristics will help build the knowledge base to report the news. As more and more research moves online and away from hard-copy verified sources, a journalist must use critical thinking to determine the information they are researching.

Back to the Nieman Lab, they reported on new fellowships in several states designed to match recent college grads with newsrooms. The need for outstanding journalism and great journalists is significant. Journalism has always had an element of vocation, now more so than ever.

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Rick Ruben is a legendary music producer whose work is challenging to categorize based on the various artists and genres he's worked with. Ruben has a new book out called The Creative Act, and in true Ruben fashion, he emphasizes that creatives make art for the purpose of the art. In contrast, art made for an audience is advertising, and that's not to say that you shouldn't consider your audience; just don't make it the primary focus of the work. We read the 4-minute summary on Nik Goke's website and have already downloaded the book on our audiobook account. 

Ruben has compared personal creativity to tuning your radio in the old days. Pre-digital radio dials, we used to turn dials to get reception on a radio. After you find a station, you need to turn the dial slightly to get the best reception; even then, it might tune in and out depending on the signal. Ruben says that's how creativity works; keep tweaking the dial and listening for your inspiration.

The Hustle is a newsletter produced by Hubspot, a digital marketing and software company known for providing high-end marketing docs and white-papers for free. Well free if you give them your contact information whenever you want to download the docs. The Hustle is both a newsletter and a podcast; the newsletter goes deeper than the podcast and, like With A Shout, comes with links to great stuff. Today it has a spotlight section, and it highlights a Reddit thread called r/Showerthoughts. We grabbed the discussion about itchy babies, and yes, the comment:

Babies don’t know they have legs?

Consequence launched a new video roundup this week. A 2-minute watch, check it out:

Summer Girl.

Click on the Apple Music image to listen to the song on Apple Music or on the Spotify Image to listen to Spotify.

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