Tapping New Data Territories
[ Agenda ] [ Registration Form ] Tapping New Data Territories A workshop on interactivity, access and connections sponsored by the Pew Center for Civic Journalism, IRE and the Institute for New Media Studies, University of Minnesota Tapping New Data Territories February 22-24, 2002 Tampa, FL Learn from respected journalists how to: Build Census skills. Report stories that make […]
Past Pew Center Workshops
The Pew Center has sponsored numerous workshops since 1994. These forums give working journalists and educators opportunities to come together and discuss innovations, solutions, and techniques for advancing good journalism and incorporating civic journalism into daily practice. Miami Beach, FL, Thursday, August 8, 2002 Sponsored by: The Pew Center and AEJMC’s Civic Journalism Interest Group […]
Spotlight Nomination
Spotlight wants you! The Pew Center invites you to nominate your best current example of civic journalism to be featured in our spotlight. If you are interested, send an e-mail to rwyhof@pccj.org briefly describing your efforts and any impact they’ve had on the community or your newsroom. The Pew Center will review all suggestions and will request […]
Hunger in the Land of Plenty
By Pat Ford Pew Center They had a deceptively simple goal, the team that produced The Charlotte Observer series “Hunger in the Land of Plenty.” They wanted to answer the question, “Why is there still hunger?” Editor Steve Gunn (then projects editor, now metro editor) says the question haunted him after driving a van full of […]
“Imagine St. Louis”
Last spring, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch invited readers to join in serious conversations about important public issues in a Sunday section that includes background on an issue and opportunities to join a discussion. In the weeks since its debut, readers have responded with phone calls, letters and e-mail expressing their interest. Now, the newspaper is working with […]
Video Boxes
By Pat Ford Pew Center A young man, all in black, with hair moussed into a wild halo wants to talk about homelessness. Another, neatly dressed in suit and tie, wants to talk about parking meters and how “they wait there till the meter is just about to expire so they can write you a […]
“The Box” in Seattle
By Pat Ford Pew Center It looks a bit like an old-fashioned photo booth: A plain wooden box with a curtain across the entrance and inside, a seat with a swatch of velvet behind it to create a background and a glass window behind which sits a camera. The sign outside says, “Tell us what […]
Getting to the Source
By Pat Ford Pew Center “Men and women of the white race, now is the time to show just how white and proud you really are. We all fight for the survival of our white heritage, the purity of our white families. We must come together now to become a proud white force”… The flyers […]
Health Care Choices
By Pat Ford Pew Center It was a battle of the Titans: Aetna-U.S. Healthcare, the giant national insurer, vs. The Physicians Inc. (TPI), a group of 1,800 doctors — the majority of doctors practicing in the Louisville area. The details were Byzantine but the impact was simple: Thousands of Aetna policyholders, though not part of […]
A Forum for All
By Pat Ford Pew Center Editors, publishers, webmasters, California Highway Patrolmen and California Assemblyman Dean Florez all came together for the first live bilingual forum on fresnobee.com, Dec. 8. But in the end, it was reporter Daniel Rodriquez who made it all possible. Two fingers zinging across a keyboard in his self-taught typing style, Rodriquez […]