Pew Center’s New Projects
Thirteen projects are selected to receive funding this year by the Pew Center's Advisory Board.
Civic Catalyst: Winter 1998
Impact Civic Journalism
Civic journalism programming in Wisconsin beats the World Series in ratings and Rochester constitutional convestion coverage educates voters in Monroe County.
Spokane’s Soapbox: A Guide to Civic Journalism
Interactive Editor Rebecca Nappi describes a new civic journalism resource that details the Spokesman-Review's philosophy of civic journalism and the ways that philosophy is reflected in its daily coverage.
Does Civic Journalism Move the Needle?
ASNE's Ethics and Values Committee surveys civic journalism practitioners to determine what is working about civic journalism, how they know it's working, and where the idea is headed.
Feedback: Attitudes Toward Civic Journalism
Civic journalism is one of several topics covered in a survey of media executives across the US surveyed on behalf of APME and Virginia Commonwealth University.
Take a Walk in the Woods .. Listen to the Public
Forty seasoned civic journalism practitioners gathered Nov. 7-9 for a retreat, sponsored by the Pew center and hosted by the Poynter Institute. The goal was to assess past experiments and explore new ones. Here are highlights from their conversations.
How to Keep Civic Journalism Working
Frank Denton of the Wisconsin State Journal gives his tips on doing civic journalism. Excerpted from remarks made at a Pew Center retreat head at the Poynter Institute in November.
Challenging Assumptions: One Reporter’s Experience
Starting where the citizens start is giving Eric Pryne of the Seattle Times an entirely different perspective on the issue of growth.