Washington, DC, March 21, 2002 -- The Savannah Morning News won the 2002 Batten Awards for Excellence in Civic Journalism, a $10,000 honor for a robust, community-driven project that targeted failing schools and triggered the creation of a civic group to raise venture capital for education innovations.
WXXI Public Broadcasting is using an online role-playing game on redistricting to engage the citizens and schools in a complicated political process. By Elissa Marra.
An update on the progress of the Pew Center's 2002 projects.
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.
February 23, 2002, Pew Center/IRE Workshop, Tampa, FL by Tim Franklin, Editor, Orlando Sentinel
By Pat Ford
Pew Center Staff Writer
They stand out like butterflies on the drab gray streets of St. Paul – the colorful, head-to-toe scarves worn by Somali women who have immigrated to the Minnesota capital over the last few years. But in the days following Sept. 11, the women vanished.
Amid the flow of national and international stories, it might have been easy to overlook this sudden absence. But reporters and editors at the St. Paul Pioneer Press – attuned to community concerns through years of civic journalism – not only noticed, they worked to bring these women back to civic life.
January 11, 2002, Pew Center/Maynard Workshop, San Francisco, CA by David Yarnold, Executive Editor San Jose Mercury News
Twelve newspapers came together in Washington, DC, to learn civic mapping skills to dig deeper into their communities.