The LA Times has a problem and is using civic journalism to help solve it. Excerpts from the remarks of Mark Willes, Publisher and CEO of Times Mirror Co, to an Oct 15, 1998, meeting of journalists sponsored by the Pew Center and The Atlantic Monthly magazine in New York City.
With the Pew center's support, 15 new civic journalism initiatives are underway in a dozen states where journalists are testing new methods of reporting local issues; looking for better ways to broaden their range of sources; and using cyberspace and two-way TV to increase citizen involvement.
Do you worry that important voices, places and issues are missing from your news coverage? Get a blueprint for rediscovering your community at the pew Center's Harwood Civic Mapping seminars.
This new book from the Pew Center for Civic Journalism chronicles how five news organiztions used civic journalism to highlight serious community problems and then helped their readers try to solve them.
There's still time. But the deadline is approaching for the 1999 James K. Batten Award for Excellence in Civic Journalism.