Community Media Connections
Pew Center/Maynard Workshop Dinner Keynote Remarks by: David Yarnold Executive Editor San Jose Mercury News January 11, 2002, San Francisco, CA San Jose Mercury News Editor David Yarnold addressed more than 100 participants in San Francisco on Jan. 11, 2002, at the Pew/Maynard workshop, “Community Media Connections.” Thank you, Jan, for that nice introduction. Happy […]
Tapping New Data Territories
Luncheon Keynote Remarks by: Tim Franklin Editor Orlando Sentinel February 23 , 2002, Tampa, FL Orlando Sentinel Editor Tim Franklin addressed more than 100 participants in Tampa on Feb. 23 at the Pew/IRE workshop “Tapping New Data Territories.” If there’s one thing you could say about the people across America who were emailing me last […]
2002 James. K Batten Awards Dinner Keynote
“Celebrating the Past, Focusing on the Future” Sponsored by the Pew Center for Civic Journalism and The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Journalism and Mass Communication Dinner Keynote Address by: Hodding Carter III President and CEO John S. and James L. Knight Foundation April 22, 2002, The Carolina Inn, Chapel Hill, […]
2002 James. K Batten Awards Luncheon Keynote
“Celebrating the Past, Focusing on the Future” Sponsored by the Pew Center for Civic Journalism and The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Journalism and Mass Communication Luncheon Keynote Address by: Walker Lundy Editor and Executive Vice President The Philadelphia Inquirer April 22, 2002, The Carolina Inn, Chapel Hill, NC MR. […]
Delving Into Diversity: Race Reporting in U.S. Newsrooms
Panelist Remarks by: Jan Schaffer Executive Director Pew Center for Civic Journalism August 7, 2002, Miami, FL Journalists are good at covering black and white issues. You’re either a good guy or a bad guy. The schools are good or bad. Adelphia Communications is either a good company or a bad one. The problem with […]
Civic Journalism: 10 Years of Work
Moderator Remarks by: Jan Schaffer Executive Director Pew Center for Civic Journalism August 7, 2002, Miami, FL It’s hard for many of us to believe that we’ve actually been engaged in civic journalism experiments now for more than 10 years. Pew Center has funded 120 projects in more than 225 newsrooms if you count all […]
Building Zones of Connectivity
Panelist Remarks by: Jan Schaffer Executive Director Pew Center for Civic Journalism August 8, 2002, Miami, FL Much of the decade of civic journalism has been about building entry points for readers and viewers into the news. The goals were: To enrich the journalism. To make it more authentic. To build some civic capital […]
What Can Computer Games Teach Journalists?
Keynote Remarks by: Glenn Thomas Co-Founder, Smashing Ideas, Inc. Thursday, August 8, 2002, 11:45 a.m. – 1:15 p.m. Miami Beach, FL Schaffer: Good afternoon and welcome to the fourth annual Pew Center luncheon here at AEJMC and probably our last as we morph into a new project. Although hopefully next year we’ll have a different luncheon […]
Civic Journalism: A Decade of Civic Innovation
SPJ Headliner Presentation By Jan Schaffer Executive Director Pew Center for Civic Journalism Society of Professional Journalists National Convention, Fort Worth, TX September 13, 2002 Thank you. I’m very pleased to be here. To me, SPJ represents journalists from the nation’s best regional newspapers, radio and television stations – the heartland of American journalism. […]
The Role of Newspapers in Building Citizenship
Keynote Remarks by: Jan Schaffer Executive Director Pew Center for Civic Journalism 5th Brazilian Newspaper Congress São Paulo, Brazil September 13, 2004 Good morning, and thank you for inviting me to share some of the lessons learned on the forefront of the journalism reform movement in the United States. It is a movement that has […]