Project on Public Life and the Press records, 1987-1998.

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Project on Public Life and the Press (U.S.). Project on Public Life and the Press records, 1987-1998.

Project on Public Life and the Press records, 1987-1998.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/315893614

Records of a project established in 1993 through the Kettering Foundation, with a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The collection documents the project's efforts to develop and promote public journalism, also known as civic journalism, a movement that aimed to help journalists reconnect with their communities and foster public discourse. The project's primary function was its seminars which brought together journalists, editors, and scholars two or three times yearly from 1993 through 1997. The bulk of the collection consists of examples of various public journalism initiatives sent to the project by participating news organizations from around the United States, including the Charlotte Observer, the Akron Beacon-Journal, and the Wisconsin State Journal. These consist primarily of newspaper clippings, but also include correspondence, reports, survey results, and external coverage of the initiatives such as elections, education, neighborhood crime, sprawl, and race relations. Also included are early funding materials, reports, publicity materials, articles about public journalism, and publications and speeches by the project's director, Jay Rosen.

5.8 c.f. (15 archives boxes) and1 videorecording

Wisconsin Historical Society Archives