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This is an archived site of work by the Pew Center for Civic Journalism from 1994 to 2002. More about the Pew Center here. The Pew Center spun into J-Lab: the Institute for Interactive Journalism in 2002. For more information, contact us.
The Pew Center shared the results of these experiments with the journalism professions through its:
The project helped print and broadcast news organizations experiment with ways to reconnect to their communities and engage their citizens in dialogue and problem solving.
Major partners have included the Radio and Television News Directors Foundation, IRE, The Maynard Institute, NPR, PBS’s Democracy Project, The Kettering Foundation, National Association of Black Journalists and the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications. The Tides Center of San Francisco administers the project.
The Center shared the results of various civic journalism experiments with the journalism community through its workshops, publications, videos, and other outreach programs. Since the Center was created, more than 3,520 journalists have attended 49 workshops; more than 10,000 journalists and civic leaders now receive the Center’s quarterly newsletter; and about 226 news organizations have participated in 121 civic journalism initiatives supported by the Center.
The Pew Charitable Trusts, based in Philadelphia, make strategic investments to help organizations and citizens develop practical solutions to difficult problems. In 2000, with $4.8 billion in assets, the Trusts granted $230 million to 302 nonprofit organizations.
For more information, contact J-Lab director Jan Schaffer:
jans@j-lab.org
The Pew Charitable Trusts has extended the Pew Center’s grant until May 30, 2003. Reach us at our new offices at the University of Maryland, where we are building a successor project called, J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism.
The Pew Center’s archive of almost 800 civic journalism projects will be housed at the Wisconsin Historical Society, in Madison, home to the nation’s largest mass communications history collection. It will be available to researchers in late 2003.