What’s Happening in Pew Projects
Spokane, WA Partners: The Spokesman-Review, University of Wisconsin-Madison The Spokesman-Review is using civic mapping tools in a new way – to map “key moments” in the lives of young people, moments when they are most likely to get off track and get involved in damaging behavior. After a series of roundtable discussions with people who work […]
What Makes a School Good? What Makes a School Story Good?
From charter schools to teacher shortages, from standards of learning to school “report cards,” thorny education issues were the focus of 19 U.S. education writers who met in July for a two-day colloquium at the University of Maryland. The gathering was sponsored by the Pew Center and the Kettering Foundation with the assistance of the […]
Boston University to Host Batten 2000 Awards
“Civic Journalism: The Public, the Media and the Campaign” will be the topic of next year’s Batten Awards and Symposium, which will be hosted by the Journalism Department of Boston University’s College of Communications in April. The symposium is held in conjunction with the annual $25,000 Batten Awards for Excellence in Civic Journalism. The award […]
What’s Happening in Pew Projects
A zeal for creating new models of journalism and innovative uses of the Web to report on pressing, but underreported, community issues distinguish 15 new initiatives that will receive Pew Center funding this year. The projects were selected by the Center’s Advisory Board from a record number of proposals submitted. “The 57 proposals demonstrated an […]
Reinventing Journalism: What Is It and What Could It Be?
In late September, the Pew Center sponsored a forum in New York that engaged a distinguished panel in imagining the future of journalism. The session was anchored by keynoter Mike McCurry, President Clinton’s former Press Secretary. Here are some highlights: Mike McCurry, President Clinton’s former Press Secretary: “So much of what we are sending out […]
Pew Center/IRE Workshop, Atlanta
From March 10 – 12, 95 journalists met in Atlanta for “Counting, Caring & Connecting: Making Data Meaningful” – a workshop on how to make data in our stories come alive to readers and viewers. Some highlights: Barbara Walsh Reporter, Portland (ME) Press Herald on the details that make the data come alive: “I believe that […]
What’s Happening in Pew Projects
erican Voter Education Project on a series of Newsmaker Breakfasts with the Ethnic Media before and immediately after the Super Tuesday primary and on an exit poll of Chinese-speaking residents that ran in the San Francisco Chronicle. NCM-generated stories have also appeared in Iran Times, Sing Tao Daily, BayView, Philippine News and other papers. It also forms the basis for regular […]
Twelve Newsrooms Try Civic Mapping
Twelve news organizations from 11 cities have been selected to participate in this year’s Harwood Civic Mapping Seminars, a training opportunity to help journalists tap different layers of community life and expand their Rolodex of sources and voices. The seminars will build on the first training sessions, launched last year and taught by the Harwood […]
What’s Happening in Pew Projects
Portland, ME Portland Press Herald, Maine Sunday Telegram After a story on how teens struggle with the pressure to have sex sooner, reporter Barbara Walsh is finding some unconventional ways of getting the voices of ordinary teenagers for her series, “On the Verge.” Walsh, along with community coordinator Jessica Tomlinson, manned a booth at the […]
Civic Journalism Workshops
It’s been a busy summer. At the Pew/RTNDF “New Dimensions in Storytelling” workshop, June 9-11, in Philadelphia, more than 90 print and electronic journalists heard the latest ideas for covering sprawl and crime. They got training in mapping their communities and they heard about Knight-Ridder’s new Community Publishing initiatives. At the Advanced Civic Journalism Workshop, […]