TAPE 2: Framing a Story: What’s It Really About?
TRT: 13:21 NARRATOR: Reporters are often drawn to the loudest voices and the conflict that results when people are viewed as combatants and positioned on opposite sides of an issue. While the ensuing fireworks can generate a lot of heat, and copy, the journalism it produces often spotlights the most extreme views at […]
A Journalist’s Toolbox will help reporters, editors and producers ask better questions, find better sources, discover new stories and report them better. Tapping civic life is about how to find out what’s happening in your community that should be reflected in your news reports. It draws on the techniques and experiences of working journalists at […]
Robert Lane Interview
FULL TRANSCRIPT OF THE ROBERT LANE INTERVIEWS (FIRST INTERVIEW: 2 MINUTES IN LENGTH) REPORTER (QUESTION): I have just one simple question. As a parent, as a resident, citizen, what would you do about school violence? What’s the answer? ROBERT LANE, PARENT (ANSWER): (Pause) Boy. (Pause) That’s a big question (Pause) First off, I would […]
TAPE 1: Interviewing: New Questions, Better Stories
TRT: 14:17 REPORTER: Mr. President, when you were briefed as you were today on yet another shooting, do you believe that this has just become something fundamental in American life, or is there something that can be done to alter the dynamic? THE PRESIDENT: Well, I think there are a lot of things that can […]
Community Impact, Journalism Shifts Cited in New Civic Journalism Study
[ Spotlight Archive ] [ Self-Nominate ] Community Impact, Journalism Shifts Cited in New Civic Journalism Study Washington, DC, November 4, 2002 — At least one fifth of all U.S. daily newspapers — 322 of the nation’s 1,500 dailies — practiced some form of civic journalism between 1994 and 2001, and nearly all credit it with a positive impact on […]
Batten Symposium: Panel Highlights Civic Innovations: Building New Interactions
Civic journalism was about interactivity long before newsrooms even knew what the Internet was. Early interactivity occurred through town hall meetings, focus groups and issue polls. Panelists discussed new forms of interactivity that are connecting citizens and altering journalism. GIL THELEN Vice President and Executive Editor The Tampa Tribune We have been using database and […]
Batten Symposium: Panel Highlights Civic Newsrooms: Building New Reflexes
Three top civic editors talked about newsroom goals, conversations and civic mapping to deliver useful news. STEVE SMITH Executive Editor, Statesman Journal, Salem, OR I promised a few of you I would open by debuting my new definition of civic journalism. Here it is: The relentless expression of professional values every news day until utterly […]
Batten Symposium: Panel Highlights Civic Connections: Getting Them Right
Three top editors discussed what civic journalism has taught them. JENNIE BUCKNER Editor, The Charlotte Observer The underlying premise is not something we always go into in journalism schools or in newsrooms. That is, if you’re really going to report a story well, start where the citizen starts. Start with the person who’s living this, […]
Batten Symposium: Panel Highlights Civic Impact: Citizens Do Notice
Four people who have participated in civic journalism initiatives discussed the impact of those efforts. Carol Lydon, Participant, “Citizen Voices,” Philadelphia “Citizen Voices” brought everybody together. People had to listen to each other because we had to see the vision as a city vision rather than just a neighborhood vision. By doing that, then we […]
Batten Symposium: Dinner Keynote Highlights Speaking Truth to the Power of Wall Street
Hodding Carter III, President and CEO, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, delivered the dinner keynote address. In the course of this day I have heard every possible thing that could be said on behalf of this venture in which all of us have taken some deep stake and said better than anything I […]