The Bronx Journal BronxNet Community Cable Lehman College The City University of New York BronxNet community access cable TV joined forces with the unique Multilingual Journalism program at Lehman College (CUNY) to expand its coverage of this underserved New York borough that, by itself, would have been one of the 10 largest U.S. cities. Pew […]

The Chicago Reporter WGN-TV WNUA-FM The partners drew a subtle and nuanced portrait of Wrightwood, a previously white neighborhood that had become 50 percent African-American fairly quickly in the early ’90’s, as a case study in racial change in a community. The Reporter, a monthly paper that uses investigative techniques to cover race and poverty, […]

Long Beach Press-Telegram Cablevision Industries, Inc. Long Beach Community Partnership Leadership Long Beach First, 25 reporters and columnists each hosted three focus group of about 10 people each. They asked open-ended questions about what issues most concerned people, what solutions they’d propose and how government and other institutions could help. From the approximately 750 people participating […]

Pacific News Service/New California Media Pacific News Service seized the 2000 presidential and local California elections to demonstrate the growing political clout of ethnic voters and, in the process, created new outlets for diverse voices in the mainstream media. Pooling the resources of 100 ethnic newspapers and broadcast stations in the Bay Area, Pacific News […]

Pacific News Service New California Media/a> KALW-FM San Francisco Chronicle The partnership gave wider circulation, through the Chronicle’s Sunday edition and through KALW programs, to the diverse ethnic and youth voices gathered by two of the Pacific News Service’s major projects: New California Media and YO! Youth Outlook. The New California Media (NCM) project distilled […]

  Yakima Herald-Republic Immigration has boosted the Hispanic presence in Yakima to 37 percent of the total population. The paper explored the resulting tensions and benefits in a seven-day series, “Race in the Yakima Valley,” Dec. 10-16, 2000. Reporters and editors worked with an ethnically diverse advisory committee to develop questions for a survey of […]

The Chicago Reporter WBEZ-FM WNUA-FM The Pew Center provided additional funding to allow the investigative monthly to complete its portrait of racial change in the Chicago neighborhood of Wrightwood. The story appeared in the April 1998 issue. For more details, please see Year Four (1997) projects. Contact: Laura S. Washington 3750 Lake Shore Dr., Apt. […]

San Francisco Examiner Maynard Institute for Journalism After months of ground level reporting, the paper published the first story in the series on April 26, 1998. It was a 175-inch, front page centerpiece that jumped into four inside pages. That first installment also launched a feature called “First Person” that gave people a chance to […]

KVIA-TV (ABC) In this largely Hispanic town on the Mexican border, the media partners opened a conversation on race, immigration and language with a series built around a poll of 1,008 residents in English and Spanish. The first step the partners took was to convene a panel of academic and civic leaders, who met almost […]

UC Berekley Journalism School The Oakland Post This project not only provided hands-on training in civic journalism, but it also improved coverage of a community usually overlooked by mainstream media. Eight graduate journalism students, enrolled in Berkeley’s “Covering a Community” course in the spring 1999 semester, produced five editions of a supplement to the black-owned […]

South Florida Sun-Sentinel CBS 4 and Newsradio 610 The partners documented the way massive social changes have swept aside the traditional definition of “community” and replaced it with a patchwork of affiliations, raising serious issues for civic institutions. Though focused on the suburbs of South Florida, “Invisible Boundaries: Communities of Choice” was a story of […]

The Orange County Register, OCRegister.com Excelsior Myoc.com Reporters developed a deep understanding of the Latino population in the Santa Ana readership area with a community mapping project that included a phone survey, an academic cultural study and a dynamic database of sources structured to stay useful even as reporters move on and off the beat. The […]

Black Entertainment Television (BET), BET.com After decades of reporting about the African-American family by white news organizations or think tanks, BET – Black Entertainment Television – tackled the subject in a civic journalism project that combined the forces of the popular cable service’s new newscast and its online division, BET.com. “Under One Roof” was a […]

The Cincinnati Enquirer, WCET-TV (PBS), WCPO-TV (CBS), WKRC-TV (ABC), WLWT-TV (NBC), Kettering Foundation, National Issues Forum A year of extraordinary racial tension in Cincinnati in 2001 prompted an extraordinary response by the city’s media, led by the Enquirer, which collaborated on a project that involved 2,000 local residents in solutions-oriented conversations about race. The paper […]