A study of more than 600 journalism projects collected by the Pew Center shows that more than 345 newspapers and magazines have experimented with some form of civic journalism since 1995. More than half of the projects developed deep civic roots. By Lew Friedland and Sandy Nichols.
Chris Peck, APME President, releases the results of "Journalism Interactive," a poll co-sponsored by the Pew Center, APME and the National Conference of Editorial Writers at the National Press Club, July 26, 2001.
Sharon Hartin Iorio of Wichita State describes the 2000 AEJMC Civic Journalism Interest Group's winning research papers by Kathryn Campbell of Southern Oregon University and Renita Coleman of University of Missouri.
Frustrations over sprawl and stark differences in the views of minority and white respondents in a poll released by the Pew Center. By Pat Ford.
Pew Center advisory board member Jim Doyle recaps academic research on civic journalism presented at an October 1998 forum at the University of South Carolina.
Does covering a statewide consitutional convention referendum sound boring? Rochester's Democrat and Chronicle, WOKR-TV and WXXI-TV take a civic approach to the referendum and see startling results in the voting booth.
Four newspaper-journalism school teams report on their attempts to close the distance between the papers and certain groups of their readers.
ASNE's Ethics and Values Committee surveys civic journalism practitioners to determine what is working about civic journalism, how they know it's working, and where the idea is headed.