VOICE OF THE PEOPLE, IOWA
By Thomas W. Still s this heaven?” asked Shoeless Joe Jackson in the movie, Field of Dreams. “No,” replied Ray Kinsella, the farmer who built a ball park in his corn field while friends and family scratched their heads in dismay, “this is Iowa.” I remembered that scene and chuckled as I gripped the steering wheel […]
INTRODUCTION
hese pages tell the story of an experiment. It began early on 1995, when Ed Fouhy and Jan Schaffer of the Pew Center for Civic Journalism encouraged the formation of media partnerships in various locations around the country in hopes of discovering better ways to cover election campaigns. The main focus was to be on […]
FOREWORD
early a year before the official opening of the 1996 presidential campaign, I had a conversation with David Keene, a thoughtful and respected figure in Republican presidential circles. He predicted that the change in the primary season calendar would have a huge impact on the race: Money would be more important than ever because […]
PROJECTS & PARTNERS
THE CITIZENS ELECTION PROJECT CASE STUDIES PROJECTS & PARTNERS PROJECT: VOICE OF THE PEOPLE: IOWAPARTNERS: Iowa Public Television, Iowa Public Radio, Wisconsin State Journal, Quad-City Times, Mason City Globe-Gazette, Muscatine Journal, Ottumwa Courier, Waterloo Courier, Associated Press. PROJECT: DERRY, NEW HAMPSHIRE: THE PEOPLE’S VOICEPARTNERS: The Boston Globe, WBUR-FM, WABU-TV PROJECT: NEW HAMPSHIRE: VOTERS’ VOICEPARTNERS: The Associated […]
March 26, 2001
2001 Batten Awards Honor Civic Turnaround Efforts Deep Community Work Sparks Results Washington, DC, March 26, 2001 — – The Huntington Herald-Dispatch and West Virginia Public Broadcasting swept the 2001 Batten Awards for Excellence in Civic Journalism for ambitious and interactive coverage of the single biggest issue in the state – its future without coal – and the […]
New Journalism, New Interactions
2001 Batten Symposium Panel “New Journalism, New Interactions” Moderator Barbara Hipsman, associate professor, Kent State University School of Journalism and Communication, and panelists Jeannine Guttman, editor and vice president, Portland Newspapers; Ken Sands, interactive editor, The Spokesman-Review; and Miriam Pepper, readers’ representative and associate editor/Forum, The Kansas City Star, explored various ways that news organizations can interact […]
Race and Civic Journalism: Case Studies and What’s Been Learned
2001 Batten Symposium Panel “Race and Civic Journalism: Case Studies and What’s Been Learned” John L. Dotson Jr., president and publisher of the Akron Beacon Journal, guided the audience and panelists through the tough issue of covering race relations. The panel included journalists involved in groundbreaking newspaper coverage of racial issues: Janet C. Leach, vice president […]
Convergence and the Community: All Bells and Whistles
2001 Batten Symposium Panel “Convergence and the Community: All Bells and Whistles?” Moderator Roger Fidler, director of Kent State University’s Institute for CyberInformation, led a discussion on how media convergence is changing the face of news. The panelists – Gil Thelen, vice president and executive editor of The Tampa Tribune; Mark Hinojosa, assistant managing editor-electronic news […]
New Media, Converged Media, Multimedia: What Shall We Do With Them
2001 Batten Award Luncheon Keynote “I especially want to commend the Pew Center for Civic Journalism for supporting ways of reporting the news that help engage citizens in public life. In an increasingly technological – some would say impersonal – world, the Center’s work is critical to the future of democracy … The Batten Award […]
The Guinea Pig Kids
2001 Batten Award Honorable Mention “The Guinea Pig Kids” Minnesota Public Radio, St. Paul, MN For “The Guinea Pig Kids: An Inside Look at Minnesota’s Graduation Standards Experiment,” radio documentaries that used sophisticated layering of stakeholder voices and an active Web site to produce a conversation that helped delay implementation of new high school graduation […]