Change: Catch Up to the Readers
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 […]
Batten Symposium: Luncheon Keynote Highlights Change: Catch Up to the Readers
Walker Lundy, editor and executive vice president of The Philadelphia Inquirer and former editor of the St. Paul Pioneer Press, delivered the luncheon keynote. Pioneer Press projects received a Batten Legacy Award. Highlights: Ifirst met up with public journalism almost 10 years ago because some outfit Jan Schaffer worked for was giving away money. I […]
Savannah’s “Vision 2010” Wins Batten Awards
The Savannah Morning News won the 2002 Batten Awards for Excellence in Civic Journalism, a $10,000 honor for a robust, community-driven project that targeted failing schools and triggered the creation of a civic group to raise money for education innovations. Runner-up, The Cincinnati Enquirer, was awarded $5,000 for wide-ranging initiatives that involved more than 2,000 people in community […]
The Puff Adder’s Nest of Modern Journalism The 1996 James K. Batten Symposium on Excellence in Civic Journalism
Symposium Keynote Speaker James Fallows Breaking the News, How the Media Undermine American Democracy Washington Editor, The Atlantic Monthly When I first heard about the public/civic journalism movement, I was impressed with the similarity of spirit between the critique it offered and what the defense reformers had been trying to do. I believe, now, that there […]
What’s Happening in Pew Center Projects
Aberdeen, WA PARTNERS: THE DAILY WORLD OF ABERDEEN, CHANNEL 20, TCI CABLEVISION The paper will kick off its year-long “Changing Tides” project in its 88-page Perspectives edition at the end of April. The partners are examining the economic and environmental forces that have changed life on the Southern Olympic Peninsula. In particular, they are reporting […]
“Liars, Incompetents, Distorters: Who Believes Journalists Any More?”
Panel discussion sponsored by the Pew Center for Civic Journalism in cooperation with The Atlantic Monthly – September 11, 1997, New York City Alex Jones, Moderator: Host, NPR’s On the Media: When you think about it, the press at its best is the bulwark in this country against lying, incompetence and distortion. We are, at […]
Pew Center’s New Projects
The Pew Center’s Advisory Board has selected 13 civic journalism efforts to receive funding in the coming year. The projects range from a broad Los Angeles area media coalition’s plans to explain complex ballot questions in the forthcoming elections to efforts to cover Asians in San Francisco, Hispanics in El Paso, and a racially changing […]
Out of the Pressboxes; Onto the Field — Again
The Charlotte Observer is one of 14 news organizations in the state collaboration on coverage of the U.S. Senate race. Lambasted in 1996 by national newspapers for being “insidious and dangerous” and a “fraud,” the statewide North Carolina election partnership is back – wiser and better than before. The “Your Voice, Your Vote” initiative this year […]
A Citizens’ Eye View: Civic Journalism. Civic Engagement.
By Zack Stalberg Editor and Executive Vice President The Philadelphia Daily News Highlights from Batten Awards Dinner keynote speech by Zack Stalberg, editor and executive vice president of The Philadelphia Daily News, a tabloid with a circulation of 200,000 – 90 percent of it from street sales. So, it has to speak the people’s language. […]
TV Stations Try New Political Coverage
By Laura Tutor Special Projects Editor The Anniston Star For nearly a decade, the state of city public schools has stymied the social and economic progress of Anniston and Calhoun County, Alabama. Earlier this year, when the City Council proposed that the state consider merging the two school systems, The Star wanted to know where local residents […]