The Charlotte Observer WSOC-TV (ABC) WPEG-AM WBTV (CBS) Pew funds supported the hiring of a community coordinator, Charlene Price-Patterson, who was instrumental in organizing town meetings and focus groups and coordinating reader response. Reporting started with a computer-assisted analysis of two years of crime statistics that helped the partners select which neighborhoods to focus on. […]

The Charlotte Observer WSOC-TV (ABC) WPEG-AM WBTV (CBS) After the success of their major crime project, “Taking Back our Neighborhoods,” the media partners spent a year trying to incorporate the civic journalism principles they had learned into daily reporting. Applying such tools as polling, public forums, listening posts and community partnerships on a quick-turn-around time […]