Present Tense, Past Tense: The Historical and Philosophical Roots of Civic Journalism
By Mike Dillon, Ph.D. Department of Communication Duquesne University dillonm@duq.edu Civic Journalism, an organic conception of news that considers community members to be participants in, rather than objects of, public communication, has aroused both admiration and suspicion since emerging from a number of eclectic sources in the early 1990s. It has been promoted by supporters […]
Civic Journalism: 10 Tips for Rebuilding Frameworks of Society
By Jan Schaffer Executive Director Pew Center for Civic Journalism For the American Press Institute, Special Report: Covering a National Tragedy, Managing and Reporting a News Crisis, September 2001 – Amid the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, the news media have served as critical touchstones, helping to unify a nation of individuals in both […]
Lessons in Connecting Readers to the Media
By Jan Schaffer Executive Director Pew Center for Civic Journalism For The American Editor, September 2001 – Does it take terrorist attacks and thousands of casualties to get people reading newspapers again? To displace Chandra and sharks in the headlines? Or are there some other things – perhaps unconventional things – readers are detecting in the […]
Interactive Journalism: Clicking on the Future
By Jan Schaffer Executive Director Pew Center for Civic Journalism For the Fall 2001 APME News In Everett, WA, 1,200 people clicked on The Herald’s clickable Web map to register their choices for developing the riverfront. In San Antonio, Telemundo’s KVDA-TV installed Web cams in Hispanic homes to get man-in-the-home rather than man-on-the street interviews. In […]
Career-Conflicted Find Little Newsroom Support
By Jan Schaffer Executive Director Pew Center for Civic Journalism For The American Editor, magazine of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, November-December 2002 – A top executive at a major newspaper chain recently invited a hot prospect to lunch. She was an up-and-coming editor of a sizable metro paper looking to move to a […]
Electronic Democracy and the Publisher’s Prerogative
By Jan Schaffer Executive Director Pew Center for Civic Journalism Columbia University, First Amendment breakfast, May 24, 1995 – Last month, I was at a conference at Apple Computer in Cupertino. And this gathering, in particular, crystallized for me some of the obstacles — and opportunities — of the new media — or new communications revolution […]
Pew Partnership for Civic Change
By Edward M. Fouhy Founder Pew Center for Civic Journalism I welcome this opportunity to talk about civic or public or community journalism. So far we haven’t even all agreed on a name. Let’s just call it good journalism. Unfortunately it has been both praised and misunderstood for things it is not, rather than for […]
Public Radio Conference
By Edward M. Fouhy Founder Pew Center for Civic Journalism May 17, 1996 – I have three minutes to tell you about civic journalism. I’m a man of few words so I’ll be brief. This reminds me of the story about the guy who left the world and joined an order of cloistered monks. They observed […]
Tapping Hidden Stories in Your Community
By Jan Schaffer Executive Director Pew Center for Civic Journalism Minneapolis, June 20, 1997 – I want to welcome you all here — to what may be for many of you a venture into the realm of what we sometimes call experimental journalism but I think that by the end of the weekend, you’re going to […]
Civic Journalism Washington Style: Reporting Beyond the Beltway
By Jan Schaffer Executive Director Pew Center for Civic Journalism Regional Reporters Association, Rosslyn, Virginia, December 9, 1996 – In seeking to give you a primer on civic journalism in the 10 minutes we have, I thought I’d focus on a particular mainstay of our profession — words. So let’s do a little language exercise brought […]