Record Numbers Attend First Quarter Civic Journalism Conferences
The Pew Center hit the first quarter of 2001 running with a blitz of conferences that spanned the country geographically and attracted record numbers of print, broadcast and online journalists. First up was the Feb. 2-4 conference in Pasadena, CA, “Interactive Data: Building Census, Mapping and Online Skills,” that drew 109 attendees and a lengthy […]
What’s Happening in Pew Projects
Oakland, CA KTVU-TV (Fox), KTVU.com, San Francisco Chronicle The master narrative in the Bay Area has shifted dramatically with the bust in the dot-com world and what began as a long-term examination of growth in the Silicon Valley is now called”After the Boom.”The first installment, published April 29 in the San Francisco Chronicle, was featured in […]
Indianapolis Workshop
A bout 100 print and electronic journalists met in Indianapolis June 1-3 for a workshop on “Civic Reporting: Journalism for a New America.” The workshop was a joint effort of the Pew Center and the Radio and Television News Directors Foundation. Keynote speakers included Michael Oreskes, assistant managing editor of electronic news for The New York […]
What’s Happening in Pew Projects
Myrtle Beach, SC The Sun News, Myrtlebeachonline.com, Coastal Carolina University The Sun News, Myrtlebeachonline.com, Coastal Carolina University The newspaper examined the impact of solid waste disposal in June as part of its ongoing “Growth on the Grand Strand,” an in-depth look at the effect of development on Myrtle Beach. “You wouldn’t think that solid waste […]
Harwood Mapping Seminars Resume
Twelve news organizations will take part in the fourth Harwood Civic Mapping Seminar. The weekend workshop, Nov. 9-11, in Washington, DC, is designed to improve reporters’ and editors’ capacities to understand their communities and tell untold stories. Co-sponsored by The Harwood Institute for Public Innovation and the Pew Center for Civic Journalism, the mapping seminars […]
Civic Innovations: Media for a New America
A superworkshop at the August NABJ convention in Orlando engaged nearly 40 journalists in a discussion about new tools media organizations are using to dispel myths and engage their community in conversations about diversity and race. Marty Steffens, consulting editor for The (San Francisco) Examiner, moderated the session. Pat Ford, author of the Pew Center’s new book on […]
New Pew Center Projects
Clickable Web maps that let the public chart choices around growth, reapportion their Congressional districts, track water-supply consequences and simulate family scenarios are ushering in a new era of high-tech engagement in several initiatives the Pew Center will fund in the coming year. “Journalists are demonstrating a striking resourcefulness, inventing ways to use the Internet […]
Mining a Collection of Race Stories
By Jan Schaffer Pew Center Executive Director The Pew Center for Civic Journalism has been around for nine years now. One advantage of this longevity is that we have amassed a considerable collection of journalism initiatives – more than 600 newspaper projects alone. Another 100 radio and television efforts. Out of this accumulation last year, […]
Harwood Mapping Seminar
The fourth Harwood Civic Mapping Seminar in November drew 35 journalists from 12 newspapers and a communications professor. The group, led by Richard Harwood, president of the Harwood Institute for Public Innovation, brainstormed ways to dig deeper into their communities for divergent voices and untold stories. During small-group discussions, the participants swapped ideas about their […]
A Celebration of Civic Journalism
At a “Celebration of Civic Journalism” breakfast at October’s APME conference in Milwaukee, panelists described how civic journalism has enhanced their coverage, particularly since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. They said civic mapping and other civic journalism techniques had increased their sources and provided access to richer stories. Afterward, APME board members thanked the Pew […]