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.