UNC-Chapel Hill to Hold 2002 Batten Awards Symposium Celebrates the Legacy of Civic Journalism
Washington, DC, February 25, 2002 — The 2002 James K. Batten Awards and Symposium, documenting a decade of civic journalism, will be presented by the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Monday, April 22.
The day-long event, “Civic Journalism: Celebrating the Past, Focusing on the Future,” will showcase the impact of 10 years of civic journalism experiments in newsrooms around the country. And it will look at the future of interactive journalism.