Pew Center Supports 14 Initiatives Clickable Web Maps Involve Citizens in Public Policy Choices Race Relations Coverage Dominates Topics
Washington, DC, August 11, 2001 — 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 for Civic Journalism will fund in the coming year. “Journalists are demonstrating a […]
Electronic Democracy and the Publisher’s Prerogative
By Jan Schaffer Executive Director Pew Center for Civic Journalism Columbia University, First Amendment breakfast, May 24, 1995 – Last month, I was at a conference at Apple Computer in Cupertino. And this gathering, in particular, crystallized for me some of the obstacles — and opportunities — of the new media — or new communications revolution […]
Pew Partnership for Civic Change
By Edward M. Fouhy Founder Pew Center for Civic Journalism I welcome this opportunity to talk about civic or public or community journalism. So far we haven’t even all agreed on a name. Let’s just call it good journalism. Unfortunately it has been both praised and misunderstood for things it is not, rather than for […]
Public Radio Conference
By Edward M. Fouhy Founder Pew Center for Civic Journalism May 17, 1996 – I have three minutes to tell you about civic journalism. I’m a man of few words so I’ll be brief. This reminds me of the story about the guy who left the world and joined an order of cloistered monks. They observed […]
Tapping Hidden Stories in Your Community
By Jan Schaffer Executive Director Pew Center for Civic Journalism Minneapolis, June 20, 1997 – I want to welcome you all here — to what may be for many of you a venture into the realm of what we sometimes call experimental journalism but I think that by the end of the weekend, you’re going to […]
Civic Journalism Washington Style: Reporting Beyond the Beltway
By Jan Schaffer Executive Director Pew Center for Civic Journalism Regional Reporters Association, Rosslyn, Virginia, December 9, 1996 – In seeking to give you a primer on civic journalism in the 10 minutes we have, I thought I’d focus on a particular mainstay of our profession — words. So let’s do a little language exercise brought […]
Institute on the Coverage of Disasters and Victims
By Jan Schaffer Executive Director Pew Center for Civic Journalism University of Central Oklahoma, April 5, 1997 – Thank you for the opportunity to be here at such an important and worthwhile workshop. I think there is no better fit for civic journalism than the coverage of disasters tragedies and their victims. First, because the philosophy […]
Community Media Workshop
By Edward M. Fouhy Founder Pew Center for Civic Journalism Chicago, May 20, 1997 – I want to thank Thom Clark for inviting me to speak to you. What I understand the Community Media Workshop is doing is of enormous importance. Rebuilding the relationship between news organizations and the people they serve is essential if we […]
Is it Possible to do Significant Journalism in an Era of Bottom-Line Concerns and Technological Change?
By Jan Schaffer Executive Director Pew Center for Civic Journalism Knight Journalism Fellows Reunion Stanford University June 20, 1997 Is it still possible to do good journalism amid these seismic upheavals? I think yes. But not by maintaining the status quo. Furthermore, I suggest that the status quo is not very good journalism and not […]
Aspen Institute
By Edward M. Fouhy Founder Pew Center for Civic Journalism Aspen, May 22, 2001 – Thinking about the standards and practices of American journalism today means for me, navigating the waters between a newsstand in Atlanta and Susan Molinari. It would be presumptuous of me, particularly in this company to presume to speak to the standards […]