| | CPN - Civic Renewal Movement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | The civic journalism movement began emerging after the 1988 presidential election, stimulated in part by a widespread sense among reporters and editors that election coverage, dominated by charges about the flag and the infamous Willie Horton ad, had sunk to the lowest level in recent memory. |
 | | The PPLP compiled information on the emerging movement, and began to hold a series of seminars and workshops led by Rosen, Merritt, and others to develop a vocabulary for journalists who were trying to reinvent their profession. |
 | | Many have come through other democratizing social movements of the last several decades, such as the environmental and women's movements, but have reworked their language and practice in the direction of broader civic discourse and collaboration, and away from some of the more self righteous or purely contestational themes in some of these movements. |
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