What’s Happening in Pew Projects
Portland, OR KGW-TV (NBC), kgw.com, Portland Tribune, Beaverton Valley Times, Tigard Times, Gresham Outlook, Clackamas Review A poll for “Your Neighborhood, Your Future” surfaced some surprises. It showed that Oregonians’ traditional growth concerns have been overshadowed by fears about the state’s collapsing economy. Worries about the current unemployment rate – the nation’s second highest in […]
Tell Us Your Civic Journalism Story
By Jan Schaffer Pew Center Executive Director The Pew Center will sunset at the end of this year after 10 years of nurturing civic journalism experiments in newsrooms around the country. It will be a year to continue our work with training resources and workshops – on civic journalism, civic mapping and interactive news. It […]
A Rush to Close Public Information
Orlando Sentinel Editor Tim Franklin addressed more than 100 participants in Tampa on Feb. 23 at the Pew/IRE workshop “Tapping New Data Territories.” Here are some highlights: If there’s one thing you could say about the people across America who were e-mailing me last March, it’s that they certainly weren’t mincing their words. “Look under […]
What’s Happening in Pew Projects
Huntington, WV The Herald-Dispatch, West Virginia Public Broadcasting The paper created a virtual Web focus group of 18- to 34-year-old former West Virginians to explore the exodus of young people from the state. At Christmas time – hoping to capitalize on holiday visits – the paper persuaded publications and college alumni groups around the […]
New Hunter-Gatherers Assemble the News
By Jan Schaffer Pew Center Executive Director Around the country, we are seeing some new forms of journalism beginning to emerge. It’s civic in entirely different ways from traditional civic journalism. Engaging in ways that civic journalists couldn’t have imagined only a decade ago. It is a journalism that seeks to involve citizens very actively […]
What’s Happening in Pew Projects
Decatur, IL Herald & Review, WILL-TV (PBS) One of two Decatur public high schools has formed a dropout prevention task force in response to the partners’ “Decatur’s Dropouts” project. In addition, the school superintendent says he will address concerns citizens raised in April in an hour-long call-in show on WILL. Host and producer John Paul […]
Congratulations…
To KQED-FM in San Francisco whose “Voice of the Voter” project was given first place honors for Public Service in Professional Broadcasting by the Northern California Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. KQED shares the award with its partners, the San Francisco Chronicle and KRON-TV. “Voice of the Voter” is one of the 1994 […]
Congratulations…
To the Charlotte Observer, whose series “Taking Back our Neighborhoods,” examining problems and solutions in some of the city’s most crime-ridden neighborhoods, won a first-place public service award from the North Carolina Press Association. The articles have led more than 500 individuals and groups to offer help and triggered efforts to close down crack houses, demolish a […]
Congratulations…
To the Charlotte Observer . Its “Taking Back our Neighborhoods” series was named a Pulitzer finalist for public service. To WSOC-TV, Charlotte’s ABC affiliate. It won a prestigious Headliner Award from the Atlantic City Press Club for its “Carolina Crime Solutions.” To “We the People/Wisconsin.” It received the University of Wisconsin Extension’s “Wisconsin Idea” award in May and the Wisconsin Newspaper Association’s […]
Congratulations . . .
To the Manhattan Mercury, Manhattan, Kan., which received the Inland Innovation Award for public journalism experiments, presented in February by the Inland Press Association, for one of the paper’s first civic journalism efforts on Binge Drinking. The award recognizes innovation and forward thinking in newspaper content. And it recognizes newspaper public journalism initiatives that serve as […]