New resources from the Pew Center
For newsrooms and classrooms — for a free copy of the newest Pew Center resources, call 202-331-3200 or e-mail news@pccj.org
New book: “Tapping Civic Life” Second Edition
The updated workbook, “Tapping Civic Life: How to Report First, and Best, What’s Happening in Your Community,” offers journalists tools and techniques they can use to supplement everyday Rolodex reporting. It offers instruction on how to:
- Identify various layers of civic life.
- Identify “connectors” and “catalysts” who would be useful to reporters.
- Find “third places” in the community, where people discuss issues.
- Conduct conversations instead of interviews.
- Map communities by area or topic.
New Book: Civic Journalism Is…
What is civic journalism? How do you define it?
Twenty journalists from around the country give their answers in a new publication from the Pew Center.
Called “Civic Journalism Is… True Stories from America’s Newsrooms,” the booklet is a compilation of ads carried in major print and broadcast journalism magazines last year.
In defining civic journalism, the reporters, producers, editors and news directors articulate a set of core values that guide how they practice their craft and provide texture and understanding to the work being done in the name of civic journalism.
New Video: “The Best of Civic Journalism: 2000 Batten Award Winners.”
10 minutes. Learn how this year’s Batten Award winners developed their winning journalism. See how the Savannah Morning News focused public attention on the problems, and opportunities, caused by a influx of senior citizens. View New Hampshire Public Radio’s “Tax Challenge” and online Tax Calculator that helped thousands of listeners determine the impact of proposed tax measures. Learn how The Philadelphia Inquirer helped citizens introduce tough choices on urban issues into a close mayoral race.