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	CPN - About CPN
		Civic journalism is about providing people with the news and information they need to allow them to function as citizens, to make the decisions they are called on to make in a democratic society.
		Civic journalists are trying to plug back into their communities, to cross the gap that has opened and widened between the news media and their constituents—their readers and viewers.
		Civic journalists broaden their agenda from the usual overwhelming focus on political and governmental news to aggressively ferret out issues of interest to citizens who are not members of the elite.
	www.cpn.org /topics/communication/civicjourn.html (979 words)

	Global Issues: Media & Ethics - The Role of the Media in Building Community
		Civic journalism is now a broad label put on efforts by editors and news directors to try to do their jobs as journalists in ways that help to overcome people's sense of powerlessness and alienation.
		Civic journalism is trying to come up with some new models of reporting that might be more in tune with new models of governance.
		Civic journalists try to ensure that all the people affected by the issue have a voice in the story, not just the proponents of the most extreme viewpoints who send us their press releases.
	usinfo.state.gov /journals/itgic/0401/ijge/gj02.htm (2337 words)

	Citizen journalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In a paper called Citizen Journalism is Dead, Vincent Maher, the head of the New Media Lab at Rhodes University, outlined several weaknesses in the claims made by citizen journalists, in terms of the "three deadly E's", referring to ethics, economics and epistemology.
		Examples of citizen journalism include personal blogs that recorded details of the 2004 South Asian Tsumani, footage captured by personal mobile cameras during the 2005 London Bombings and local news written by residents of a community that had previously escaped notice of professionals.
		Simultaneously, however, journalism that was "by the people" began to flourish, enabled in part by emerging internet and networking technologies, such as weblogs, chat rooms, message boards, wikis and mobile computing.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Citizen_journalism (1656 words)

	Decisions, decisions, decisions: "civic journalism" in...
		Our decisions are based in part on the concept of "civic journalism," which suggests that one of the primary obligations of journalism is to enhance the community it serves, in our case, the chiropractic profession.
		Civic journalism is both a philosophy and a set of values supported by some evolving techniques to reflect both of those in your journalism.
		Chiropractic civic journalism is the process of asking "Why can't this be better?" in the face of situations that are thought to be "OK." It sometimes involves making readers just a little uncomfortable and, at times, making a few people mad.
	www.chiroweb.com /archives/18/14/18.html (636 words)

	Newspaper Research Journal: Election coverage reflects civic journalism values
		Civic journalists argue that, if this slide is to be reversed, journalism must change its ways to provide the public with information that is more useful, more relevant to public problems, more encouraging of civil and productive discourse and more inclusive of diverse perspectives.
		They maintain that civic journalists become far too involved in the issues they are covering; that they participate in and create news, instead of dispassionately observing and chronicling it; and that they place reporters in the position of being community boosters and issue cheerleaders.
		Some critics of civic journalism have persuasively argued that much of what is wrong with modern journalism can be traced directly to the fact that the new corporate owners of newspapers and broadcast outlets have slashed budgets to the point that newsrooms are chronically understaffed.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3677/is_200210/ai_n9130211 (1211 words)

	AEJMC: Civic Journalism 2002 abstracts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The study departs from other descriptions of instructional models for civic journalism education because a classroom experimental design was used to evaluate the effectiveness and usefulness of the project.
		Civic journalism is a decade-old, foundation-driven effort to encourage journalism organizations to alter their coverage routines to better reflect communities and the public dialogue on issues.
		Civic journalism encourages greater depth of knowledge of communities, alternative framing for stories and developing sources within layers of civic life (from officials to private individuals).
	www.aejmc.org /convention/2002convabs/civic02.html (384 words)

	APC: More Issues > Articles > Civic Journalism: America's Dance With Nazi Style Propaganda
		Now she is determined to use civic journalism and Pew's $3.8 billion in assets to force changes in news coverage.
		Civic journalism is touted by Rimel's media lackeys as an effective means for involving their readers in the democratic process.
		Civic journalism is mind control; it is the means for Rimel's troops to present their opinions as facts.
	www.americanpolicy.org /more/civicjournalism.htm (859 words)

	AEJMC: 2001 Civic Journalism paper abstracts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Civic Journalism in the 2000 U.S. Senate Race in Virginia -- David Kennamer and Jeff South, Virginia Commonwealth University -- The Norfolk Virginian-Pilot is a proponent of civic journalism; the Richmond Times-Dispatch is not.
		Civic Autonomy in Journalism Education: An Alternative to the Lure of Detachment -- Michael McDevitt, University of New Mexico -- Civic journalism has failed to appreciate the importance of autonomy as an inevitable outcome of professional socialization.
		Civic Journalism Influence On Local TV News Coverage of the 2000 Elections -- Amy Reynolds, Indiana University and Gary Hicks, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville -- During 2000, several corporate Owners of local television Stations announced they would incorporate initiatives into their 2000 election coverage to improve the quality of their political journalism.
	www.aejmc.org /convention/2001conabs/01civic.html (526 words)

	Poynter Online - The Ethics of Civic Journalism: Independence as the Guide
		Civic Journalism is "a fundamental change in the way we do our business," according to former broadcast network news executive Ed Fouhy.
		Fouhy (1994) sees civic journalism as a change in "how we define what news is and how we serve our viewers." And Fouhy believes there is an incentive in the civic journalism approach as TV stations jockey for success or survival in an era of converging technology.
		Civic journalism, if it is practiced with great skill and deep commitment, and if it is guided by leaders with high ethical standards, can produce reporting that honors that century-old responsibility to "comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable." REFERENCES Broder, D. (1990), January 14).
	www.poynter.org /content/content_view.asp?id=5594 (4234 words)

	The Pew Center For Civic Journalism
		At least one fifth of all U.S. daily newspapers practiced some form of civic journalism between 1994 and 2001 -- and their editors say it made a positive difference.
		Civic journalism helped to change citizens, their communities and journalism itself.
		The Public Journalism Network, a professional association of civic and public journalists, was launched in January 2003.
	www.pewcenter.org (261 words)

	Civic Journalism, by Mike Hoyt - CJR, Sept/Oct 95
		Civic journalism grew out of a sense that, as we in the press have dutifully reported for so long, our democracy actually is going to hell in a handbasket.
		The Pew Center for Civic Journalism, meanwhile, was born in September 1993 with a $4 [OR 4.5?] million three-year grant from the Pew Charitable Trusts, founded by Sun Oil Co. heirs, as part of its "Renewing our Democratic Heart" initiative.
		The quality of the civic journalism debate would be a lot higher if it was better grounded in what is actually happening in these newsrooms all over the map where journalists are trying to turn civic journalism's big but amorphous ideas into stories.
	archives.cjr.org /year/95/5/civic.asp (4570 words)

	Hypergene MediaBlog » Interview with Jan Schaffer of Pew’s J-Lab
		Civic journalism is likely to transform newsrooms thanks to the efforts of Pew Center’s J-Lab Institute and Jan Schaffer.
		Mid-decade, civic journalism went from journalists interacting with people in these somewhat large groups, to journalism interacting with people one-on-one with their civic mapping work.
		Civic mapping is merely a systematic way of going into a community and talking to enough people to find out who the real movers and shakers are — and then putting that information into a database for the rest of the newsroom to access.
	www.hypergene.net /blog/comments.php?id=P70_0_1_0 (908 words)

	ASNE - On journalism - Is civic journalism an answer?
		Civic journalism says that journalists need to rediscover the total community, listen to the total community, cover the total community and advocate for the total community.
		Instead, civic journalism rests its case on the contention that our system of government and its underlying principles are too valuable to be allowed to atrophy â” for reasons of self-interest as well as for the common good.
		Civic journalism does not â” and must not â” promise a quick fix or a sudden explosion in civic participation, circulation, love between our brothers and our sisters â” or ethical journalism.
	www.asne.org /kiosk/editor/98.dec/carter1.htm (759 words)

	Civic Journalism Society Charter Building Site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Public Journalism Network is a global professional association of journalists and educators interested in exploring and strengthening the relationship between journalism and democracy.
		We believe journalism and democracy work best when news, information and ideas flow freely; when news fairly portrays the full range and variety of life and culture of all communities; when public deliberation is encouraged and amplified; and when news helps people function as political actors and not just as political consumers.
		He is a researching Civic Journalism as a Fulbright Scholar at the Dewitt Wallace Center for Communications and Journalism at Duke University.
	www.kennesawsummit.kennesaw.edu (7037 words)

	WorldNetDaily: The truth about civic journalism
		The Civic Declaration claims credit for introducing the idea of "civic journalism." It is, Boyte explains, "aimed at bringing citizens into public discussions of politics and policy in a far more active fashion" and to "reconnect" journalists "to the communities they serve." That kind of gobbledygook sounds good to many journalists -- even well-intentioned ones.
		That's exactly what civic journalism is, after all -- a euphemism for the kind of propaganda that will help rebuild the statist, collectivist, widely discredited American left, a movement that wouldn't recognize a community-based solution if it tripped over it.
		Civic journalism is the codification of this new bastard role for an American institution whose primary and historic mission has been to serve as a watchdog on government.
	www.wnd.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=14260 (805 words)

	Civic Journalism & Electronic Publishing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The premise of "civic journalism" is that newspapers are aloof from their readers.
		Philip Meyer listed a number of defining elements of civic journalism, which are considered to be consistent with the historical role of journalism as a society's watchdog.
		The Pew Center for Civic Journalism, meanwhile, was born in September 1993 with a $4 million three-year grant from the Pew Charitable Trusts, founded by Sun Oil Co. heirs, as part of its "Renewing our Democratic Heart" initiative.
	iml.jou.ufl.edu /projects/students/yam/elecpub/civjm.htm (875 words)

	freedomforum.org: 'Civic journalism' talk pervades AEJMC sessions
		Emphasis on so-called civic journalism permeated many sessions at the convention of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication this month in Baltimore.
		Much that passes for "investigative journalism," he added, is similarly driven by market considerations rather than social, political or ethical injustices in the community.
		Underwood called much civic journalism "boring and poll-driven," and he argued that it often produced efforts that are skeptical of institutions and almost "anti-government."
	www.freedomforum.org /templates/document.asp?documentID=4383 (597 words)

	Japan Media Review -- Civic Journalism Gains Momentum in Japanese Newsrooms
		As the civic journalism movement has matured and gained mainstream status in many U.S. newsrooms, it is attracting fresh interest among journalists in other countries facing journalistic and business pressures similar to those that spawned the movement in America more than a decade ago.
		This international interest in civic journalism manifested itself for those of us in Minnesota in recent years as visiting journalists from the former Soviet Union came to the St.
		She had raised concerns about some of the excesses of the civic journalism movement in the past, but at the same time had worked hard as editor of The Des Moines Register to listen to readers and write about issues important to them.
	ojr.org /japan/media/1077241122.php (1448 words)

	Sun.Star Cebu - Editorials: Civic journalism plus . .
		Civic journalism is basically pro viding people with "news and information they need in order for them to behave as citizens, decision makers in a democratic society."
		Civic journalism has to do mainly with content of the newspaper and how it can make readers act as citizens aware of their rights and obligations.
		Civic journalism, we are told, starts with learning what is the community's agenda and continues by pursuing that agenda.
	www.sunstar.com.ph /static/ceb/2005/09/21/oped/editorial.html (627 words)

	Correspondences - News By the People For People: Why Civic Journalism Matters
		Well, journalism has a context, which I think we've forgotten: Done right, journalism is a voice through which a society learns about itself and debates the options available to it.
		Civic journalism is indeed important, but we must redefine the word "civic" since large groups of the minority press is being left out of the equation.
		This site may generate pay for writers in the future, but it will always be open to anyone who wants to tell a story about life in their world, whether they define that world by the block, the state, the province, the nation or the globe.
	www.correspondences.org /archives/000203.html (520 words)

	The Robert D. Fowler Distinguished Chair in Communication Held by Leonard Witt
		Professor Witt is founding president of the Public Journalism Network (PJNet) was formed after he invited 24 of the top public journalism academics and practitioners to Kennesaw State University in January 2003.
		With the advent of the citizen journalism, we media movement, made possible by weblogs and other digital publishing tools, the power of the Internet is changing how the media interact with their audiences, which opens wonderful opportunities and challenges for all journalists.
		The second was part of the year long project, Journalism and the Public: Restoring the Trust developed by the Fowler Chair and the Reynolds of School of Journalism at University of Nevada, Reno and underwritten by the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation.
	www.kennesaw.edu /communication/fowlerchair/index.shtml (830 words)

	Civic Journalism Initiative
		The Civic Journalism Initiative symposium in April, 1998, with renowned University of Chicago theologian Dr. Martin E. Marty framed and elevated the national discussion of what role religion should have in public life.
		The MPR Civic Journalism Initiative's executive director is Leonard Witt, a journalist with more than two decades of experience in print journalism.
		Prior to forming the Civic Journalism Initiative, Witt was editor of Minnesota Monthly magazine, an award winning regional magazine with a circulation of 67,000, and the Minneapolis Star Tribune's Sunday Magazine.
	access.minnesota.publicradio.org /civic_j/index.shtml (272 words)

	"Part of Our World: Journalism as Civic Leadership"
		In the century now closing, American journalism has taken on more and more of the trappings of a profession: we train journalists in some of our best universities; we expect from them, as they expect from themselves, certain standards of conduct; and we give them wide latitude in deciding what right conduct shall mean.
		This tenor of thought--which understands journalism as an education in democracy and politics, a civic lesson of sorts, as well as a maker and molder of our public climate--is not entirely foreign to the American press, although I would call it a minor chord.
		Much of this was accomplished in the years 1993 to 1997, when "public journalism" (also known as "civic journalism") came to the attention of the American press.
	www.upenn.edu /pnc/ptrosen.html (6349 words)

	San Francisco Community Journalism Project
		The San Francisco Community Journalism Project is a civic project operating under the Journalism Department of San Francisco State University.
		Working in tandem with the Journalism Department's Civic Journalism course, it also aims to train student journalists to develop grass roots sources and better cover communities that are historically disenfranchised or marginalized.
		Five residents will be invited to participate in the Civic Journalism (J667) course at San Francisco State.
	userwww.sfsu.edu /~j667/about.htm (271 words)

	Doing Civic Journalism
		The Pew Center's beat is to report on various civic journalism experiments around the country, sharing the lessons learned with the rest of the profession and tracking how those experiments are evolving.
		To explore the various ways journalists are doing civic journalism or talking about it, click on the menubar to the left.
		Tapping Civic Life is about how to find out what's happening in your community that should be reflected in your news reports.
	www.pewcenter.org /doingcj (305 words)

	Civic Journalism
		Civic Journalism is a set of ideas and tools that journalists use to listen to citizens' concerns and their proposed solutions to those problems.
		It is a kind of interactive journalism that uncovers deep-seated trends or issues often lost in everyday coverage of breaking news.
		Journalists who tap into the civic layers of their communities can more effectively hold policymakers accountable to the citizens' agenda and inspire people to reconnect with civic life.
	groups.msn.com /CivicJournalism (233 words)

	ASNE - Civic Journalism
		For Smith, a civic journalism pioneer who recently assumed leadership of his third newsroom in eight years, training a staff in civic coverage is less about skills training and more about changing the newsroomâs culture, values, routines and reflexes.
		He, like other civic editors, is largely training his staff in-house by building in daily learning opportunities.
		For a guide to civic journalism techniques and best practices, visit http://www.pewcenter.org, which archives civic journalism publications, speeches and award winners collected by the Pew Center for Civic Journalism.
	www.asne.org /index.cfm?id=4940 (1076 words)

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