January 18, 2010
How journos, news orgs can support civic engagement (Series index)
From December 2009 through April 2010, the News Leadership 3.0 blog published a special series of guest posts by Amy Gahran on civic engagement. This series explores how news organizations and other institutions can implement the findings of the Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy. This joint project of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the Aspen Institute Communications and Society program produced the 2009 report, “Informing Communities: Sustaining Democracy in the Digital Age.”
Here are the articles in this series, in chronological order:
- Dec. 8, 2009: Community info building blocks: What do you already have?
- Dec. 15, 2009: Teamwork: Collaborating to build a community dashboard
- Dec. 22, 2009: Civic topic pages: Boost local traffic, democracy
- Dec. 29, 2009: Government 2.0: What’s in it for local news?
- Jan 5, 2010: Make key government documents easier to find, understand
- Jan. 12, 2010: Tips for seeking local news funding from community foundations
- Jan. 19, 2010: Volunteering widget: Basic gateway to civic engagement
- Jan. 26, 2010: Future of Media Project: FCC Wants Your Views by March 8
- Feb. 2, 2010: Civic App Contests: User-friendly local data complements journalism
- Feb. 9, 2010: If news orgs & journos won’t provide provide local civic news, who else could?
- Feb. 16, 2010: Partnering with libraries, “natural sites of media literacy”
- Feb. 23, 2010: Google’s “Gig” fiber network: Could it help your town?
- Mar. 9, 2010: National Broadband Plan: Opportunities for community news, civic engagement
- Mar. 19, 2010: National Broadband Plan: What it actually says about civic engagement
- April 2, 2010: New report examines public library’s growing role as online civic hub
- April 5, 2010: Going on the record: Civic engagement is for journalists, too!
More to come in this series. Stay tuned!
By Amy Gahran, 01/18/10 at 2:01 pm
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