Pew Center’s New Projects
Pew Center’s New Projects The Pew Center’s Advisory Board has selected 15 initiatives in civic journalism to receive funding in 1999. At the forefront are more sophisticated merging of new technologies and traditional journalism techniques with civic journalism practices. Twelve states are represented. The initiatives reveal three underlying aspirations in the nation’s newsrooms: Providing readers, […]
Five Newspapers, One TV Station Inaugurate Harwood Civic Mapping Seminars
Six news organizations have been selected to take part in the first Harwood Civic Mapping Seminars, a series of three two-day workshops designed to improve reporters’ and editors’ capacities to understand and interpret their communities. They are co-sponsored by The Harwood Institute and the Pew Center for Civic Journalism. Participating will be The San Diego Union-Tribune, […]
What’s Happening in Pew Center Projects
Anniston, AL The Anniston Star The first fruits of The Anniston Star’s Civic Mapping Project became visible to readers March 2, the day the Alabama Legislature began its annual session. Instead of devoting its front page to the same old lobbyists and lawmakers, The Star featured ideas gathered from a forum of community opinion leaders who met with the […]
Pew/IRE Workshop, Baltimore
From April 9-11, about 70 journalists met in Baltimore for “Journalists: Custodians or Catalysts for the Community?” – a workshop co-sponsored by the Pew Center and IRE. Some highlights: Bill Marimow, Managing Editor, Baltimore Sun, and evening keynoter: “Good journalists need to do both: Be a watchdog and become catalysts for change.” Frank Denton, Editor, Wisconsin State […]
Community Journalism Summit, San Francisco
Community Journalism Summit, San Francisco A diverse group of about 80 journalists met in San Francisco, May 21-23, for a “Community Journalism Summit,” co-sponsored by the Pew Center, the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education and the San Francisco Examiner. Some highlights: Erna Smith, Chair, San Francisco State Journalism Department, Dinner Keynoter: “It’s through journalism […]
Pew Center is Renewed
The Pew Center for Civic Journalism has been granted $4.65 million for the next three years by the Board of The Pew Charitable Trusts to continue its work as an incubator for innovative ideas that help journalists better engage people in public life. The funding will enable the six-year-old center to continue supporting newsroom experiments, […]
What’s Happening in Pew Projects
Anniston, AL The Anniston Star The Star has compiled a database of more than 100 informal community leaders as part of its Civic Mapping Project. The paper’s mapping project coordinator has recruited sources from civic clubs, church groups, leadership training programs, civil rights groups and Parent-Teacher Organizations, among others. The database can be accessed easily by […]
What’s Happening in Pew Projects
Spokane, WA Partners: The Spokesman-Review, University of Wisconsin-Madison The Spokesman-Review is using civic mapping tools in a new way – to map “key moments” in the lives of young people, moments when they are most likely to get off track and get involved in damaging behavior. After a series of roundtable discussions with people who work […]
What Makes a School Good? What Makes a School Story Good?
From charter schools to teacher shortages, from standards of learning to school “report cards,” thorny education issues were the focus of 19 U.S. education writers who met in July for a two-day colloquium at the University of Maryland. The gathering was sponsored by the Pew Center and the Kettering Foundation with the assistance of the […]
Boston University to Host Batten 2000 Awards
“Civic Journalism: The Public, the Media and the Campaign” will be the topic of next year’s Batten Awards and Symposium, which will be hosted by the Journalism Department of Boston University’s College of Communications in April. The symposium is held in conjunction with the annual $25,000 Batten Awards for Excellence in Civic Journalism. The award […]