civic journalism | Nieman Journalism Lab

Articles tagged civic journalism (11)

Jan SchafferJune 22, 2015

If audience engagement is the goal, it’s time to look back at the successes of civic journalism for answers

“Simply put: civic journalism worked. Readers and viewers got it. We learned that if you deliberately build in simple ways for people to participate — in community problems or elections — many will engage.”

Measuring how much print newspapers matter

Ethan Zuckerman and Nicco Mele help the Nieman Foundation celebrate the big 7-5

Dan KennedyJune 4, 2013

Tracing the links between civic engagement and the revival of local journalism

Serving the public isn’t enough for journalism, the Northeastern University professor says. His new book The Wired City taught him that the public first has to be created, nurtured, and given a voice.

Press Publish 3: Jay Rosen on the public, how the press thinks, and the production of innocence

The NYU professor and scholar talks about his intellectual influences, how he thinks the press did in 2012, and how much of an audience there’ll be for civic-minded journalism. Joshua Benton

Andrew DonohueJanuary 22, 2013

Andrew Donohue: How to redesign the beat for engagement, impact, and accountability

The former editor of Voice of San Diego, now a Knight Fellow at Stanford, wants to rethink how journalists think about and find stories in the community.

C.W. Anderson: The public is still a problem, and other lessons from “Rebuilding the News”

“Rather than the public being eclipsed or forgotten, there are instead too many publics.” C.W. Anderson

On the record with NPR chief Gary Knell: ‘Radio isn’t going away, it’s going everywhere’

The new CEO discusses connected cars, threats to public funding, and the organization’s fully multi-platform approach to news. Andrew Phelps

January 24, 2011

SeedSpeak: A geolocation app for better civic engagement

June 22, 2010

Knight News Challenge: CitySeed’s mobile app wants to grow some fresh community engagement

Older articles