Pew Center for Civic Journalism Supports 15 News Experiments
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.