Peaks Island, in the Casco Bay off Portland, Maine, is accessible only by ferry. It's a lovely community of about 1,000 year-round residents but you wouldn't read a lot about it in the local paper, the Portland Press Herald.
June 22, 1999, Northern California Grantmakers Conference, San Francisco, CA by Jan Schaffer, Executive Director Pew Center for Civic Journalism
By Mike Dillon, Ph.D. Department of Communication Duquesne University
New Hampshire Public Radio and The Gazette in Colorado Springs experiment with new ways to increase citizen interactivity and engagement through their web sites.