Civic Journalism: The Idea, The Evolution, The Impact
By Jan Schaffer Executive Director Pew Center for Civic Journalism The Wisemen Club, Harvard Club, New York City, November 20, 1997 – I’m curious: How many of you have been written about personally, or had the companies you represent written about in the newspaper? How many of you thought the story was absolutely accurate — not […]
Civic Journalism: Redefining News, Engaging Readers, Making a Difference
By Jan Schaffer Executive Director Pew Center for Civic Journalism World Editors Forum, Kobe, Japan, June 3, 1998 – I welcome this opportunity to talk about civic journalism, which goes by many names. I’d like to think that one of them is good journalism. For this discussion, I thought it would be helpful to lay out […]
The Media and Civic Engagement
By Jan Schaffer Executive Director Pew Center for Civic Journalism Northern California Grantmakers Conference Golden Gate Club Presidio, San Francisco Public Faces of Philanthrophy: Keynote Address, June 22, 1999 – Thank you. I welcome this opportunity to talk about the Media and Civic Engagement – and in particular civic journalism’s role in that relationship. Because I […]
Attack Dog, Watch Dog or Guide Dog… The Role of the Media in Building Community
By Jan Schaffer Executive Director Pew Center for Civic Journalism Baton Rouge Area Foundation Marcia Kaplan Kantrow Lecture Series Oct. 21, 1999 Thank you, I am delighted to be here. Several of us just came from an animated roundtable discussion. And I think it showed how much the performance of the media is on people’s […]
Transformation From Within: How Civic Journalism May Save the Media
Dinner Keynote Remarks by: Chris Peck Editor The Spokesman-Review February 9, 2001, Eugene Oregon I’m happy to be here in Eugene, recently home to a great football tradition. Go Ducks! As someone who went to college in California nearly 30 years ago, I recall another of Eugene’s legacies that goes back to the 1960s. This […]
Alone Again, Naturally: A Short History of Civic Journalism and Time
Civic Innovations in Newsrooms and Classrooms Luncheon Keynote Remarks by: Steven A. Smith Editor Statesman Journal February 10, 2001, Eugene Oregon Good afternoon. I am so pleased to welcome you to my hometown. I was raised here in Eugene, at the southern end of the Willamette Valley, growing up with the rain, the fog, and […]
Interactive Journalism
By Jan Schaffer Executive Director Pew Center for Civic Journalism Pittsburgh SPJ Region 4 Conference Breakfast Keynoter March 31, 2001 The world of news and journalism is changing rapidly. But when we think of those changes, too often we tend to focus too much on things like convergence, digital television or the Web. Publishing similar […]
Being Open to the Unexpected
Dinner Keynote Remarks by: Marty Steffens Consulting Editor San Francisco Examiner February 10, 2001, Eugene Oregon In the 1930’s, a physicist named Isidor Rabi, who later went on to win the Nobel Prize, was breaking the frontiers into the study of sub-atomic particles. By applying the mechanics of quantum field study, he discovered something that […]
Civic Mapping
By Jan Schaffer Executive Director Pew Center for Civic Journalism Morris Communications Workshop Augusta, GA May 22, 2001 This is an overview of tools and techniques that we’ve been building to connect better with readers. We’ve been working on refining at least three different tools in the toolbox. 1) Civic Mapping – a systematic way to diversity […]
Future News … It’s More Than Just the Facts
Featuring: Chris Peck Editor The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, WA President Associated Press Managing Editors Terence Smith Media Correspondent and Senior Producer The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Sponsors: The survey of all U.S. dailies with circulations of 20,000 and above was conducted for APME, the Pew Center for Civic Journalism and the National Conference of Editorial Writers […]