Representatives of six media organizations were selected to take part in the first Harwood Civic Mapping Seminars to learn better ways to probe the complex layers of their communities.
From New Hampshire to Georgia, New York to California, the Pew Center’s 1999 projects are going full speed ahead. A quarterly update.
Pew Center advisory board member Jim Doyle recaps academic research on civic journalism presented at an October 1998 forum at the University of South Carolina.
The Gazette in Colorado Springs uses its web site to give voters a voice in how a $3.1 billion surplus should be spent in the state.
The Philadelphia Daily News, the tabloid with an attitude, takes a hard look at Philadelphia’s future and creates a dialogue with both readers and public officials about what they can do. By Pat Ford.
Pew Center Executive Director Jan Schaffer takes a look at where civic journalism is headed as we move into 1999.
The L.A. Times looked at the problem of literacy and asked, "What can we do?" Pat Ford examines how the paper is customizing the Baltimore Sun’s "Reading by 9" initiative.
Portland Press Herald AME Eric Conrad tells how the issues on the minds of Maine citizens in the 1998 gubernatorial elections turned into the "Beyond the Ballot" guidebook