{"id":302,"date":"2026-08-06T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-testinglink.com\/projects\/civilorg\/?p=302"},"modified":"2026-09-22T22:34:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T22:34:37","slug":"tapping-civic-life-reporting-first-and-best-whats-happening-in-your-community-1st-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev-testinglink.com\/projects\/civilorg\/tapping-civic-life-reporting-first-and-best-whats-happening-in-your-community-1st-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Tapping Civic Life: Reporting First, and Best, What’s Happening in Your Community, 1st Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

A PEW CENTER FOR CIVIC JOURNALISM WORKBOOK
\nPREPARED BY THE HARWOOD GROUP<\/span><\/p>\n

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FOREWORD<\/a><\/p>\n
INTRODUCTION<\/a><\/p>\n
NINE IDEAS FOR STRENGTHENING JOURNALISM<\/a><\/p>\n
Tapping Civic Life<\/em>\u00a0 is divided into two main sections, followed by an assessment worksheet.<\/p>\n
I. WHAT CIVIC LIFE OFFERS JOURNALISTS<\/a>
\nLays out four civic life frameworks that form the foundation for this work and can be used as a newsroom reference.<\/p>\n
II. WHAT JOURNALISTS CAN DO TO TAP CIVIC LIFE<\/a>
\nOutlines a step-by-step approach to help journalists find their community’s civic life and understand the implications of tapping into it.<\/p>\n
APPENDIX: IS THIS THE RIGHT TIME?<\/a>
\nProvides an assessment worksheet to figure out if now is the right time to pursue this work in your newsroom.<\/p>\n
ABOUT THE HARWOOD GROUP<\/a>\/<\/span>ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS<\/a><\/p>\n
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Throughout the workbook, journalists will find three kinds of sidebars to help them tap their community’s civic life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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MOVING AHEAD.<\/span><\/p>\n
Guideposts and cautions for newsroom efforts when tapping into civic life.<\/td>\n
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JOURNALISTS’
\nCHALLENGE.<\/span><\/p>\n
Challenges that journalists will face in implementing the approaches in the workbook.<\/td>\n
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THE WICHITA
\nEXPERIENCE.<\/span><\/p>\n
Highlights of\u00a0The Wichita Eagle’s\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0experience with tapping into its community’s civic life and how the Eagle pushed forward at key points.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A PEW CENTER FOR CIVIC JOURNALISM WORKBOOK PREPARED BY THE HARWOOD GROUP FOREWORD INTRODUCTION NINE IDEAS FOR STRENGTHENING JOURNALISM Tapping Civic Life\u00a0 is divided into two main sections, followed by an assessment worksheet. I. WHAT CIVIC LIFE OFFERS JOURNALISTS Lays out four civic life frameworks that form the foundation for this work and can be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-publications"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev-testinglink.com\/projects\/civilorg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302","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=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/dev-testinglink.com\/projects\/civilorg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5550,"href":"https:\/\/dev-testinglink.com\/projects\/civilorg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions\/5550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev-testinglink.com\/projects\/civilorg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev-testinglink.com\/projects\/civilorg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev-testinglink.com\/projects\/civilorg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev-testinglink.com\/projects\/civilorg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}