Minnesota

Safer Cities, St. Paul, MN 1995 Partners:

St. Paul Pioneer Press KARE-TV (NBC) Wilder Research Center Breaking out of the daily police blotter routine, the paper commissioned a poll of 2,853 Twin City residents that explored public attitudes toward crime and safety and assigned a team of four reporters to look at crime in the context of race, age, gender and geography. […]

Across Generations: What We Owe Each Other, St. Paul, MN 1996 Partners:

St. Paul Pioneer Press KARE-TV (NBC) Wilder Research Center Following up on the success of its “Safer Cities” project, the paper focused on intergenerational conflict with the eight-week, 14-part series “Across Generations: What Do We Owe Each Other?” First, a poll of 1,528 adults in the Twin Cities area showed some of the differences between […]

Citizens’ Links for News, St. Paul, MN 1999 Partners:

Internews Interactive KTCA-TV Pew Center funds supported the use of videoconferencing technology that allowed KTCA to originate broadcasts from new and unconventional locations and to connect citizens from far-flung parts of the large, rural state. The result was innovative programming with groundbreaking levels of interactivity. The first broadcast to use the new technology, in January […]