About The Harwood Institute for Public Innovation
The Harwood Institute for Public Innovation is a catalyst for charting a different course for America’s public life and politics. The Harwood Institute has partnered with the Pew Center for Civic Journalism to do civic mapping workshops for journalists in print, radio and television media.
The Harwood Institute has led newspaper transformation projects combining theory and hands-on work across the country for The Orange County Register, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The Arizona Republic, The Wichita Eagle, the Colorado Springs Gazette and others to work on creating a more vibrant and engaging newsroom culture.
The Harwood Institute’s Founder and President Richard C. Harwood has also worked with the American Society of Newspaper Editors to help editors develop a deeper understanding of journalism values, work through the challenges that newspapers and journalists face in carrying out these values and find ways to bridge the gap between journalists and the public.
About The Pew Center For Civic Journalism
The Pew Center for Civic Journalism nourishes newsroom initiatives to create models of news coverage that help to re-engage citizens in issues and problem-solving in their community.
The center works with journalists interested in producing news that citizens need to be educated about current events, to make civic decisions and generally to exercise their responsibilities in a self-governing society.
The center provides seed funding for news experiments at print and electronic news organizations. It also spotlights successful new practices, produces training resources for newsrooms and classrooms, and runs national workshops for journalists.
The center was created in 1993 by The Pew Charitable Trusts.
Acknowledgments
This workbook is the Second Edition of Tapping Civic Life and a number of people played key roles in making it happen.
Jan Schaffer, executive director of the Pew Center for Civic Journalism, had the foresight to invest in Civic Mapping Seminars that led to this new edition. And she supported the idea that an improved edition of Tapping Civic Life could benefit news organizations across the nation.
John Creighton and Teri Pinney, former colleagues at The Harwood Institute, led the initial round of Civic Mapping Seminars, which contributed to this edition of the workbook.
Wendy Kelly, of WLK Graphic Design, for a second time, produced a terrific workbook within a tight timeline.
(c) April 2000. Pew Center for Civic Journalism / Tides Center
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