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 […]