National Civic Review articles from September 2004

National Civic Review archives from September 2004

Note from the Editor.(Editorial)
September 22, 2004... The mission statement of the Society of Professional Journalists has a quaintly old fashioned ring. "To ensure that the concept of self-government outlined by the U.S. Constitution remains a reality into future centuries," it says, "the...

Journalism and public knowledge.
September 22, 2004... On March 12, 2004, the Associated Press produced a report about a proposal to expand a gold-mining operation on Battle Mountain in northern Nevada. The AP report lays out monumental statistics: a $200 million project, affecting ten square...

In search of authenticity: Public Trust and the news media.
September 22, 2004... Throughout my work over the past twenty years, I have heard a clear call in America for leaders and institutions to act with greater authenticity. People want leaders and institutions to demonstrate a deep understanding of how they live their...

Journalism and democracy: does it matter how well the press covers Iraq?
September 22, 2004... Why should we care about press coverage of Iraq? What does it matter, for example, if the New York Times does a terrific job or, upon examining its own work, finds fault with how it reported the run-up to the war? What does it matter if Times...

A brief history of public journalism.
September 22, 2004... The history of public journalism--as a set of ideas, as a movement, as a group of journalistic practices--can be traced through the books and articles about it produced over the last ten years by scholars and practitioners. A group of my...

Public journalism and communities.(Excerpt)
September 22, 2004... This article is excerpted from Public Journalism: Past and Present (Dayton, Ohio: Kettering Foundation Press, 2003). Public journalism is at a crossroads. Even though at least 320 newspapers have tried some kind of public journalism project...

Public journalism, social capital, and quality management.
September 22, 2004... The number of American adults reading a weekday newspaper dropped from 80 percent of the population in 1964 to 58 percent in 1997. (1) Between the early 1970s and the late 1990s, the percentage of those age eighteen to twenty-nine reading a...

Is public journalism morphing into the public's journalism?
September 22, 2004... "The State of the News Media" report for 2004, produced by the Project for Excellence in Journalism at Columbia University, says, "Journalism is in the middle of an epochal transformation, as momentous probably as the invention of the telegraph...

We the media: the rise of citizen journalists.
September 22, 2004... This essay is reprinted with permission of O'Reilly Media (http://www.oreilly.com/). Learn more about We the Media at http://wethemedia.oreilly.com/. We freeze some moments in time. Every culture has its frozen moments, events so important...

It takes an "academic" village.(Local Government)
September 22, 2004... Worried about overcrowding in the schools and a dearth of nearby colleges and universities, the city commission of Pembroke Pines, Florida, formed a partnership with county government, the regional water management district, local school...

Protecting poor people's right to vote: fully implementing public assistance provisions of the National Voter Registration Act.(Political Reform)
September 22, 2004... Imagine a country with a separate voter registration system for poor people. A country that neglects this registration system for the poor so severely that in most areas fewer than one out of ten unregistered citizens actually use it. A country...