Three new videos from a civic journalism retreat at the Poynter Institute in November are available for newsroom or classroom discussion. Presentations by Dennis Hartig of the Virginian-Pilot, Jody Calendar fo the Asbury Park press and Glenn Ritt of the Bergen Record address civic journalism from several perspectives.
Had KRON-TV gone crazy? The San Francisco station launches a week-long series about race relations during sweeps week, including a 13-minute first piece. Their gamble paid of; Pat Ford reports that the response from the Bay Area was enormous.
In March 1997, three reporters and a photographer asked a simple question: What is the impact of alcohol abuse in Maine? Their answer, published in an eight-day series in the Portland Press Herald, touches off a massive public search for soulutions. Editor Jeannine Guttman describes the project and the community response.
The Colorado Springs Gazette is reinventing itself from the ground up; spend a day in the newsroom and see the "civic culture" that Editor Steve Smith is working to create in a new Pew Center video.
Four newspaper-journalism school teams report on their attempts to close the distance between the papers and certain groups of their readers.
Rem Rieder, editor and senior vice president of the American Journalism Review, delivered a journalistic "wish list" at a workshop in Atlanta in January co-sponsored by the Pew Center and RTNDF.
One year ago, we at the Pew Center asked a simple question: Is there a way to help news organizations "hand-off" successful civic journalism projects to the community? The result was the Communitry Change project of the Pew Partnership for Civic Change, designed to help citizens take ownership of the projects and advance them beyond activities the newspaper could engage in.
Politics Editor Dennis Foley talks about the culture shift happening at the Orange County Register and its commitment to changing the way stories are written every day.