{"id":2969,"date":"2026-08-17T13:51:37","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T13:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-testinglink.com\/projects\/civilorg\/?p=2969"},"modified":"2026-08-17T13:53:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T13:53:10","slug":"the-assessment-worksheet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev-testinglink.com\/projects\/civilorg\/the-assessment-worksheet\/","title":{"rendered":"THE ASSESSMENT WORKSHEET"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/pre>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
<\/th>\nDefinitely<\/th>\nYes, but…<\/th>\nNo<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
Overall<\/em><\/strong><\/td>\n.<\/td>\n.<\/td>\n.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Is this work a real priority for you?<\/td>\n.<\/td>\n.<\/td>\n.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Does the designated staff have the time for this work?<\/td>\n.<\/td>\n.<\/td>\n.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Are you willing to free up more time, if needed?<\/td>\n.<\/td>\n.<\/td>\n.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tapping Civic Conversations and Spaces<\/em><\/strong><\/td>\n.<\/td>\n.<\/td>\n.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Will you give reporters and staff the time to go into civic spaces and engage people?<\/td>\n.<\/td>\n.<\/td>\n.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Are you ready for reporters to come back from civic conversations without a story, even though their efforts add to the overall knowledge of the community?<\/td>\n.<\/td>\n.<\/td>\n.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Skills Building<\/em><\/strong>Are you and other key leaders willing to invest the time and resources to help your reporters and staff learn:<\/tt><\/em><\/td>\n.<\/td>\n.<\/td>\n.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
How to ask new kinds of questions required for tapping civic spaces?<\/td>\n.<\/td>\n.<\/td>\n.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
How to listen to make sense of what people say and what they mean?<\/td>\n.<\/td>\n.<\/td>\n.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
How to use the insights and information to frame and write new kinds of stories?<\/td>\n.<\/td>\n.<\/td>\n.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Creating a Knowledge Base<\/em><\/strong><\/td>\n.<\/td>\n.<\/td>\n.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Will the paper create ways to store its knowledge about civic spaces and what is learned about them?<\/td>\n.<\/td>\n.<\/td>\n.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Will the paper make the commitment to update regularly its insights from the community?<\/td>\n.<\/td>\n.<\/td>\n.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Getting It into the Paper<\/em><\/strong>Will the paper use the information and insights gained from tapping into civic life to:<\/tt><\/em><\/td>\n.<\/td>\n.<\/td>\n.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Change how story and planning meetings are run?<\/td>\n.<\/td>\n.<\/td>\n.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Create new kinds of conversations in the newsroom?<\/td>\n.<\/td>\n.<\/td>\n.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Expand the ways stories get framed?<\/td>\n.<\/td>\n.<\/td>\n.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Publish stories that come out of the civic spaces?<\/td>\n.<\/td>\n.<\/td>\n.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Push journalists to draw on what they’re learning and to
\nuse their expanded sources?<\/td>\n		.<\/td>\n.<\/td>\n.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Change Fatigue<\/em><\/strong>Many news organizations have already gone through one or more change processes:<\/tt><\/em><\/td>\n.<\/td>\n.<\/td>\n.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Are your reporters and staff too tired now to start something new?<\/td>\n.<\/td>\n.<\/td>\n.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Is your staff truly open to learning and putting to use new concepts and techniques?<\/td>\n.<\/td>\n.<\/td>\n.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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Definitely Yes, but… No Overall . . . Is this work a real priority for you? . . . Does the designated staff have the time for this work? . . . Are you willing to free up more time, if needed? . . . Tapping Civic Conversations and Spaces . . . Will you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publications"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev-testinglink.com\/projects\/civilorg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev-testinglink.com\/projects\/civilorg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev-testinglink.com\/projects\/civilorg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev-testinglink.com\/projects\/civilorg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev-testinglink.com\/projects\/civilorg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2969"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dev-testinglink.com\/projects\/civilorg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2979,"href":"https:\/\/dev-testinglink.com\/projects\/civilorg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2969\/revisions\/2979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev-testinglink.com\/projects\/civilorg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev-testinglink.com\/projects\/civilorg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev-testinglink.com\/projects\/civilorg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}