Dayton Daily News WPTD public television WYSO-FM The Miami Valley Issues Forum TheMontgomery County Historical Museum Marking Dayton’s 1996 bicentennial, the partners launched “Shaping the Next Century” to encourage public conversations about directing the city into the future. The Daily News ran a series of stories in late 1995 that looked at Dayton’s history as […]

The Sun News The partners proposed a project on race relations but found during the planning phase that racial division was just one of the problems facing the community as a result of extremely rapid growth. Broadening the focus of the project to “reconnecting,” the paper decided to seek reader input in determining what issues […]

The Sun News Cox Broadcasting After the results of an informal Sun News survey showed serious community concern about rapid growth, the paper launched an 11-month project, “Living in a Boom Town.” The paper had asked readers to respond to six open-ended questions about the Myrtle Beach area. Some 300 responses showed five main areas […]

The Daily World Channel 20 TCI Cablevision In year two of their “Changing Tides” project, the partners attempted to bring together citizens and community leaders to craft solutions to the political, economic and environmental challenges the region faced. A March 1998 mail survey of 130 traditional community leaders – elected officials, educators, union leaders and others […]

New Hampshire Public Radio NHPR used the interactive Web technology it pioneered with its Tax Calculator to give the state’s citizens an idea of how electricity deregulation would affect their utility bills. The special “Shock Value” Web site, linking off the NHPR home page, served as both a primer on deregulation and a tool for […]

Newschannel 8 The 24-hour, all-news station conducted a phone survey of 1,000 Washington, DC, area residents and found that traffic congestion is the most-often cited problem that impacts daily life. The survey also showed residents preferred developing more mass transit to building new roads as a way to deal with congestion but were generally pro-growth […]

KGW-TV (NBC), KGW.com Portland Tribune Beaverton Valley Times Tigard Times Gresham Outloo Clackamas Review As elected planning officials in the Portland area began seeking public input on a long-term growth plan, the media partners launched a project to inform citizens and engage their interest in the process. “Your Neighborhood, Your Future” included dozens of TV and […]

The Sun News Myrtlebeachonline.com Coastal Carolina University With Myrtle Beach becoming the fastest-growing relocation destination in the nation, the paper gave residents a chance to try their hand at managing growth in the region with an interactive Web-based game, similar to the model pioneered by The Herald in Everett. “Chart the Strand’s Future,” a feature […]

La Crosse Tribune This project examined the hazards of stray voltage – electrical current that leaks from power lines – for farms and livestock through a series of newspaper stories and a dedicated Web site that drew comments and questions from around the world. The stories, looking at causes, effects and possible solutions of stray […]

The Savannah Morning News, Savannahnow.com Georgia Public Radio With the Georgia legislature expected to set statewide water policy in its 2003 session, the partners launched “Water: The Power. The Profit,” a year-long series on the Savannah River, to encourage citizen participation in the debate. A poll of 724 people in the seven counties around the river […]

The Herald-Dispatch West Virginia Public Broadcasting WMUL-FM The out-migration of young people from West Virginia was as accepted as the export of its coal until the partners explored the consequences in “Home for Good,” a project that included a six-part newspaper series, radio reports, a televised public forum and an interactive Web site. One of […]

The (Huntington) Herald-Dispatch West Virginia Public Broadcasting The partners made economic revitalization the dominant issue in West Virginia legislative and political debate with “West Virginia After Coal,” a far-reaching exploration of the state’s prospects if it continues to rely solely on coal for its economic well-being. The project provided a number of features to educate […]

The Herald KSER-FM Public Radio The paper’s “Waterfront Renaissance” project marked a new development in interactive journalism, marrying the credibility of the news organization with Web-based game technology that had previously been used mainly on advertising and entertainment sites. When the Herald set out not simply to inform but also to engage residents in the […]