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The Pros and Cons of Civic Journalism |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / MEDIA IN REVIEW |
| Author: Alicia C. Shepard |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1996 |
| Size: 2,143 Words, 13,768 Characters |
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Journalists tend to produce political stories about the minutiae of campaign machinations that leave audiences feeling bewildered. They report what candidate A says and run to candidate B for a response. They faithfully do stories on poll results where one day Senator So-and-So is ahead, and two days later an opponent has the lead.
This has become the standard fare of campaign reporting. Left out of the equation are the voices and concerns of the people who vote. But in the last few years, news outlets are beginning to rethink their political coverage and join the growing "civic journalism" movement.
Civic journalism--the hot new widely debated movement in journalism--also goes by the name of community journalism or public journalism. It's difficult to define, because it comes in man...
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...alism, and keeping readers, according to its disciples.
"I think the movement is one of the most significant in American journalism in a long time," says Marvin Kalb, director of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University. "It's something that seems to be digging deeper roots into American journalism and ought to be examined very carefully."
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