What’s Happening in Pew Center Projects
“Civic Journalism: Doing it Daily” CHARLOTTE, N.C. PARTNERS: THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, WBTV (CBS), AND WPEG RADIO When the North Carolina legislature for the first time this year required each school to increase its parent participation, The Observer saw a civic journalism opportunity. “We wrote a story in August that said schools are in need of parent […]
Pew Center’s New Projects
Congratulations
To the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle/Times-Union, whose “Make Us Safe, Teens Talk About Violence” project won the Distinguished Community Service Award of the New York Newspaper Publishers Association. To The Record of Bergen County, NJ, and TCI Network, which won a CableACE Award, cable television’s equivalent of the Emmy, for the election night edition of “Local Live,” which was […]
What’s New With Pew Center Projects
Myrtle Beach, SC Partners: The Sun News, Time-Warner Cable The Sun News launched its “Living in a Boom Town” project on April 27, with a series of stories that reported on the results of its informal postcard survey and on some key issues that surfaced: traffic, growth and development, and the “tackiness” of some of […]
The Batten Award is Renewed
1997 Batten Award Winners The Pew Charitable Trusts has renewed funding for another three years for the annual $25,000 Batten Award for Excellence in Civic Journalism and accompanying symposium. Next year’s award ceremonies for the first time will move out of Washington, D.C. The Pew Center will co-host the award with Northwestern University’s Medill School […]
What’s Happening in Pew Projects
Bronx, NY Partners: Bronxnet Community Cable, The Bronx Journal, Lehman College (CUNY) After producing a prototype of The Bronx Journal this summer, students in Lehman College’s Multi-Lingual Journalism program are editing and laying out the Oct. 6 inaugural edition. The Journal is reaching out to the many ethnic residents of the Bronx with a pull-out section that contains […]
A Refreshing Dialogue about the Role of Journalism
The Pew Trusts’ support for civic journalism has been one of our most challenging and innovative efforts. Through the dedication of Ed and Jan, a refreshing dialogue has taken place about journalism’s role in communities and its responsibilities to readers. We are proud to have helped make that happen. The proliferation of civic journalism projects […]
In Search of the Innovators
Civic journalists around the country are engaged in an unprecedented level of creativity in their quest to invent the journalism of our future. They are challenging outmoded newsroom reflexes, redefining what is “news,” exercising new writing skills, and experimenting with new ways to engage readers, viewers and listeners. I see the development of a fresh […]
A Farewell
On January 1, 1998, Jan Schaffer was named executive director of the Pew Center for Civic Journalism. I handed over the tiller confident that the course we have charted together over the last five years is in good hands. The change in leadership at the Center will, I am sure, be seamless. As those of […]
Pew Center’s New Projects
The Pew Center’s Advisory Board has selected 13 civic journalism efforts to receive funding support in the coming year. The projects range from reporting on the ongoing depression in the Southern Olympic Peninsula’s timber and fishing industries, to defining the scope of unemployment and underemployment in Daytona Beach, to chronicling efforts to create a new […]