What’s Happening in Pew Projects
A zeal for creating new models of journalism and innovative uses of the Web to report on pressing, but underreported, community issues distinguish 15 new initiatives that will receive Pew Center funding this year. The projects were selected by the Center’s Advisory Board from a record number of proposals submitted. “The 57 proposals demonstrated an […]
Reinventing Journalism: What Is It and What Could It Be?
In late September, the Pew Center sponsored a forum in New York that engaged a distinguished panel in imagining the future of journalism. The session was anchored by keynoter Mike McCurry, President Clinton’s former Press Secretary. Here are some highlights: Mike McCurry, President Clinton’s former Press Secretary: “So much of what we are sending out […]
Pew Center/IRE Workshop, Atlanta
From March 10 – 12, 95 journalists met in Atlanta for “Counting, Caring & Connecting: Making Data Meaningful” – a workshop on how to make data in our stories come alive to readers and viewers. Some highlights: Barbara Walsh Reporter, Portland (ME) Press Herald on the details that make the data come alive: “I believe that […]
What’s Happening in Pew Projects
erican Voter Education Project on a series of Newsmaker Breakfasts with the Ethnic Media before and immediately after the Super Tuesday primary and on an exit poll of Chinese-speaking residents that ran in the San Francisco Chronicle. NCM-generated stories have also appeared in Iran Times, Sing Tao Daily, BayView, Philippine News and other papers. It also forms the basis for regular […]
Twelve Newsrooms Try Civic Mapping
Twelve news organizations from 11 cities have been selected to participate in this year’s Harwood Civic Mapping Seminars, a training opportunity to help journalists tap different layers of community life and expand their Rolodex of sources and voices. The seminars will build on the first training sessions, launched last year and taught by the Harwood […]
What’s Happening in Pew Projects
Portland, ME Portland Press Herald, Maine Sunday Telegram After a story on how teens struggle with the pressure to have sex sooner, reporter Barbara Walsh is finding some unconventional ways of getting the voices of ordinary teenagers for her series, “On the Verge.” Walsh, along with community coordinator Jessica Tomlinson, manned a booth at the […]
Civic Journalism Workshops
It’s been a busy summer. At the Pew/RTNDF “New Dimensions in Storytelling” workshop, June 9-11, in Philadelphia, more than 90 print and electronic journalists heard the latest ideas for covering sprawl and crime. They got training in mapping their communities and they heard about Knight-Ridder’s new Community Publishing initiatives. At the Advanced Civic Journalism Workshop, […]
What’s New in Pew Projects
Huntington, WV Huntington Herald-Dispatch and West Virginia Public Broadcasting A six-part series, “West Virginia After Coal,” on the future of the state’s economy without coal began Sept. 17, with an investigation of how local governments are using coal tax severance payments. The paper found virtually none of the money was going to economic development. “It’s […]
A Journalist’s ToolBox Building New Routines and Reflexes
By Dana Clark Felty Pew Center The complex decisions and core values of citizens are hard to capture in a quote or a sound bite. New sources and renewed trust from underreported communities are hard to cultivate under daily deadlines. And when conflict and controversy enter the public arena, it’s often the loudest and most […]
Pew Center’s New Projects
16 Experiments Pioneer Education, Sprawl Coverage and “Sim City”-like Mapping Tools for Community Issues. Clickable maps for redeveloping the waterfront. Smart Growth maps of a coastal resort. Online cancer risk calculators. Webcams in Spanish-speaking homes. These are among 16 new ideas to help newsrooms engage their communities that are receiving Pew Center funding this […]