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Posted on January 1, 2011 | Articles
Quill | By Jan Schaffer
Professional journalists are launching scores of news startups around the country. Some cover community news, others hone in on special topics; some cover state government, and others aim to generate, and often share, investigative stories.
Posted on November 1, 2009 | Articles
Columbia Journalism Review | By Jan Schaffer
News consumers are telling us something. We should listen.
Posted on December 1, 2007 | Articles
Nieman Reports | By Jan Schaffer
In rural Dutton, Montana, 80 people showed up last fall, wooed by a notion of starting a local news site for this newspaperless town of 375 people. Months later, the community celebrated the launch of the Dutton Country Courier, DuttonCC.org.
Posted on November 13, 2007 | Articles
Newspaper Association of America's Imagining the Future of Newspapers blog | By Jan Schaffer
In 2005, Lisa Williams launched a hyperlocal news site for her newfound community of Watertown, Mass. Writing with wry, self-deprecating humor, she called it h2otown.info and it was an instant hit.
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Posted on November 1, 2005 | Articles
Nieman Reports | By Jan Schaffer
New media initiatives emerge when citizens feel ‘shortchanged, bereft or angered by their available media choices.’
Posted on March 1, 2005 | Articles
Nieman Reports | By Jan Schaffer and Ed Fouhy
Civic journalism is growing and evolving rapidly because it makes a deliberate attempt to reach out to citizens. Civic journalism can take the form of town meetings--"real" or "electronic"--or watching CSPAN, going on-line or attending focus groups.
Posted on September 1, 2003 | Articles
Nieman Reports | By Jan Schaffer
A report on race reporting by civic journalists highlights some common approaches.
Posted on September 1, 2002 | Articles
The American Press Institute's Survival Guide For Women Editors | By Jan Schaffer
As a federal court reporter at The Philadelphia Inquirer, I got a tip one Friday that something big was going to happen that would “involve the Halls of Congress.”
Posted on September 1, 2000 | Articles
National Civic Review | By Jan Schaffer
In its first effort at inventing a new relationship between the newsroom and the Internet, New Hampshire Public Radio came up with an elegantly logical idea.
Posted on June 24, 1996 | Articles
Nation's Cities Weekly | By Jan Schaffer
Newspapers and TV and radio stations are inviting citizens to take active roles in their communities, with ethusiastic response.
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