The Charlotte Observer WSOC-TV (ABC) WPEG-AM WBTV (CBS) Pew funds supported the hiring of a community coordinator, Charlene Price-Patterson, who was instrumental in organizing town meetings and focus groups and coordinating reader response. Reporting started with a computer-assisted analysis of two years of crime statistics that helped the partners select which neighborhoods to focus on. […]

Wisconsin StateJournal Wisconsin Public TV Wisconsin Public Radio WISC-TV (CBS) Wood Communication Group Pew support helped “We the People/Wisconsin,” one of American journalism’s first and most enduring civic journalism coalitions, use innovative techniques to engage citizens in election coverage. The Pew support helped the partners measure whether the effort had an impact on public participation […]

NPR Election Project National Public Radio, known for the extraordinary depth and seriousness of its public issues coverage, made changes in its approach to political reporting to improve its coverage of the 1994 election campaign. The Washington, DC-based network worked with member stations in five cities and two statewide networks to provide high quality, issue-directed […]

Tallahassee Democrat WCTV6 (CBS) Florida State University Florida A&M; Universities A three-year project, “The Public Agenda” involved thousands of Tallahassee citizens in discussing and seeking solutions to a wide range of issues facing the city. Project leaders at the Democrat and WCTV used a host of tools – small group discussions, frequent polls, large forums […]