What’s New in Pew Projects
Huntington, WV Huntington Herald-Dispatch and West Virginia Public Broadcasting A six-part series, “West Virginia After Coal,” on the future of the state’s economy without coal began Sept. 17, with an investigation of how local governments are using coal tax severance payments. The paper found virtually none of the money was going to economic development. “It’s […]
A Journalist’s ToolBox Building New Routines and Reflexes
By Dana Clark Felty Pew Center The complex decisions and core values of citizens are hard to capture in a quote or a sound bite. New sources and renewed trust from underreported communities are hard to cultivate under daily deadlines. And when conflict and controversy enter the public arena, it’s often the loudest and most […]
Pew Center’s New Projects
16 Experiments Pioneer Education, Sprawl Coverage and “Sim City”-like Mapping Tools for Community Issues. Clickable maps for redeveloping the waterfront. Smart Growth maps of a coastal resort. Online cancer risk calculators. Webcams in Spanish-speaking homes. These are among 16 new ideas to help newsrooms engage their communities that are receiving Pew Center funding this […]
Record Numbers Attend First Quarter Civic Journalism Conferences
The Pew Center hit the first quarter of 2001 running with a blitz of conferences that spanned the country geographically and attracted record numbers of print, broadcast and online journalists. First up was the Feb. 2-4 conference in Pasadena, CA, “Interactive Data: Building Census, Mapping and Online Skills,” that drew 109 attendees and a lengthy […]
What’s Happening in Pew Projects
Oakland, CA KTVU-TV (Fox), KTVU.com, San Francisco Chronicle The master narrative in the Bay Area has shifted dramatically with the bust in the dot-com world and what began as a long-term examination of growth in the Silicon Valley is now called”After the Boom.”The first installment, published April 29 in the San Francisco Chronicle, was featured in […]
Indianapolis Workshop
A bout 100 print and electronic journalists met in Indianapolis June 1-3 for a workshop on “Civic Reporting: Journalism for a New America.” The workshop was a joint effort of the Pew Center and the Radio and Television News Directors Foundation. Keynote speakers included Michael Oreskes, assistant managing editor of electronic news for The New York […]
What’s Happening in Pew Projects
Myrtle Beach, SC The Sun News, Myrtlebeachonline.com, Coastal Carolina University The Sun News, Myrtlebeachonline.com, Coastal Carolina University The newspaper examined the impact of solid waste disposal in June as part of its ongoing “Growth on the Grand Strand,” an in-depth look at the effect of development on Myrtle Beach. “You wouldn’t think that solid waste […]
Harwood Mapping Seminars Resume
Twelve news organizations will take part in the fourth Harwood Civic Mapping Seminar. The weekend workshop, Nov. 9-11, in Washington, DC, is designed to improve reporters’ and editors’ capacities to understand their communities and tell untold stories. Co-sponsored by The Harwood Institute for Public Innovation and the Pew Center for Civic Journalism, the mapping seminars […]
Civic Innovations: Media for a New America
A superworkshop at the August NABJ convention in Orlando engaged nearly 40 journalists in a discussion about new tools media organizations are using to dispel myths and engage their community in conversations about diversity and race. Marty Steffens, consulting editor for The (San Francisco) Examiner, moderated the session. Pat Ford, author of the Pew Center’s new book on […]
New Pew Center Projects
Clickable Web maps that let the public chart choices around growth, reapportion their Congressional districts, track water-supply consequences and simulate family scenarios are ushering in a new era of high-tech engagement in several initiatives the Pew Center will fund in the coming year. “Journalists are demonstrating a striking resourcefulness, inventing ways to use the Internet […]