{"id":3504,"date":"2026-08-18T18:41:37","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T18:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-testinglink.com\/projects\/civilorg\/?post_type=pew-projects&#038;p=3504"},"modified":"2026-08-22T21:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T21:29:09","slug":"civic-ways-to-use-wire-stories-richmond-in-2000-partners","status":"publish","type":"pew-projects","link":"https:\/\/dev-testinglink.com\/projects\/civilorg\/pew-projects\/civic-ways-to-use-wire-stories-richmond-in-2000-partners\/","title":{"rendered":"Civic Ways to Use Wire Stories, Richmond, IN 2000  Partners:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, sans-serif, arial;\">(Richmond) Palladium-Item<br \/>\nDayton Daily News<br \/>\nEarlham College<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, sans-serif, arial;\">The partners developed strategies to make wire stories &#8211; the main source of national and international news for most small papers &#8211; more engaging and relevant to readers. Earlham professor Cheryl Gibbs and her students created special pages of international news for the Palladium-Item, using wire stories and other readily available sources. Unlike traditional wire-dependent foreign news pages, the Palladium-Item&#8217;s &#8220;Big Picture&#8221; page included reading lists, local organizations linked to the story and ways to get personally involved through donations or other outreach efforts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, sans-serif, arial;\">The pages were critiqued by focus groups of readers and later pages were further refined. Gibbs and her students found readers became more engaged if they felt a personal connection to a story and suggested that papers could help readers make that connection using a few simple steps. They include translating statistics and demographic information into more local and familiar terms, telling readers how they can help or communicate their views to decision-makers and suggesting reading lists that include literary and cultural content as well as politics and history.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, sans-serif, arial;\"><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0033cc; font-family: helvetica, sans-serif, arial;\"><strong>Contact:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, sans-serif, arial;\">Cheryl Gibbs<br \/>\nAssistant Professor<br \/>\nEarlham College<br \/>\nDrawer 62, 801 National Road West<br \/>\nRichmond, IN 47374-4095<br \/>\nPhone: (765) 983-1506<br \/>\nEmail:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060927084038\/mailto:chergibbs@aol.com\">chergibbs@aol.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3521,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"pew-categories":[144,125,148,157,124],"class_list":["post-3504","pew-projects","type-pew-projects","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","pew-categories-144","pew-categories-engagement","pew-categories-geography","pew-categories-indiana","pew-categories-pew-projects"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev-testinglink.com\/projects\/civilorg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pew-projects\/3504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev-testinglink.com\/projects\/civilorg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pew-projects"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev-testinglink.com\/projects\/civilorg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/pew-projects"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev-testinglink.com\/projects\/civilorg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev-testinglink.com\/projects\/civilorg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"pew-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev-testinglink.com\/projects\/civilorg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pew-categories?post=3504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}