Monthly Archives: October 1999

Pew Center for Civic Journalism Supports 15 News Experiments

 in Press Releases

Pioneering Coverage of Economic, Science, Energy Issues
New Models for Wire Stories

Projects Push Technology to Trigger Community Interaction

Washington, D.C., October 28, 1999 — A zeal for creating new models of journalism and innovative uses of the Web to report on pressing, but underreported, community issues distinguish 15 new initiatives that will receive funding next year from the Pew Center for Civic Journalism, the center announced today.

This year’s projects were selected by the Pew Center’s Advisory Board from a record number of proposals submitted. Read more

Imagine St. Louis (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

 in Spotlight

Last spring, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch invited readers to join in serious conversations about important public issues in a Sunday section that includes background on an issue and opportunities to join a discussion. In the weeks since its debut, readers have responded with phone calls, letters and e-mail expressing their interest. Now, the newspaper is working with a local television station to produce a weekly public affairs broadcast based on the feature.

“Imagine St. Louis,” the Post-Dispatch’s redesign of its Sunday news analysis section, was launched April 11. Read more