Mining a Collection of Race Stories
By Jan Schaffer Pew Center Executive Director The Pew Center for Civic Journalism has been around for nine years now. One advantage of this longevity is that we have amassed a considerable collection of journalism initiatives – more than 600 newspaper projects alone. Another 100 radio and television efforts. Out of this accumulation last year, […]
Harwood Mapping Seminar
The fourth Harwood Civic Mapping Seminar in November drew 35 journalists from 12 newspapers and a communications professor. The group, led by Richard Harwood, president of the Harwood Institute for Public Innovation, brainstormed ways to dig deeper into their communities for divergent voices and untold stories. During small-group discussions, the participants swapped ideas about their […]
A Celebration of Civic Journalism
At a “Celebration of Civic Journalism” breakfast at October’s APME conference in Milwaukee, panelists described how civic journalism has enhanced their coverage, particularly since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. They said civic mapping and other civic journalism techniques had increased their sources and provided access to richer stories. Afterward, APME board members thanked the Pew […]
What’s Happening in Pew Projects
Portland, OR KGW-TV (NBC), kgw.com, Portland Tribune, Beaverton Valley Times, Tigard Times, Gresham Outlook, Clackamas Review A poll for “Your Neighborhood, Your Future” surfaced some surprises. It showed that Oregonians’ traditional growth concerns have been overshadowed by fears about the state’s collapsing economy. Worries about the current unemployment rate – the nation’s second highest in […]
Tell Us Your Civic Journalism Story
By Jan Schaffer Pew Center Executive Director The Pew Center will sunset at the end of this year after 10 years of nurturing civic journalism experiments in newsrooms around the country. It will be a year to continue our work with training resources and workshops – on civic journalism, civic mapping and interactive news. It […]
A Rush to Close Public Information
Orlando Sentinel Editor Tim Franklin addressed more than 100 participants in Tampa on Feb. 23 at the Pew/IRE workshop “Tapping New Data Territories.” Here are some highlights: If there’s one thing you could say about the people across America who were e-mailing me last March, it’s that they certainly weren’t mincing their words. “Look under […]
What’s Happening in Pew Projects
Huntington, WV The Herald-Dispatch, West Virginia Public Broadcasting The paper created a virtual Web focus group of 18- to 34-year-old former West Virginians to explore the exodus of young people from the state. At Christmas time – hoping to capitalize on holiday visits – the paper persuaded publications and college alumni groups around the […]
New Hunter-Gatherers Assemble the News
By Jan Schaffer Pew Center Executive Director Around the country, we are seeing some new forms of journalism beginning to emerge. It’s civic in entirely different ways from traditional civic journalism. Engaging in ways that civic journalists couldn’t have imagined only a decade ago. It is a journalism that seeks to involve citizens very actively […]
What’s Happening in Pew Projects
Decatur, IL Herald & Review, WILL-TV (PBS) One of two Decatur public high schools has formed a dropout prevention task force in response to the partners’ “Decatur’s Dropouts” project. In addition, the school superintendent says he will address concerns citizens raised in April in an hour-long call-in show on WILL. Host and producer John Paul […]
Congratulations…
To KQED-FM in San Francisco whose “Voice of the Voter” project was given first place honors for Public Service in Professional Broadcasting by the Northern California Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. KQED shares the award with its partners, the San Francisco Chronicle and KRON-TV. “Voice of the Voter” is one of the 1994 […]