Our Summer 2011 newsletter is online
	It features: Growth of Patch, indie sites shows citizen journalism going mainstream Online tools help educators teach selves, students Panels represent balance of teaching, research, PF&R Convention events reflect annual goals

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Online: 2009-10 CCJIG Annual Report

Every year, the CCJIG chair compiles a report on our group's accomplishments and membership. Here is outgoing Chair Mary Beth Callie's report for 2009-10. Reports for the past several years also are in our documents archive.

New book examines 'Public Journalism 2.0'

Co-editors Jack Rosenberry (St. John Fisher College) and Burton St. John III (Old Dominion University) have published the edited volume Public Journalism 2.0: The Promise and Reality of a Citizen-Engaged Press (2010, Routledge).

Across 13 chapters, the book examines both the roots and contemporary dynamics of civic and citizen journalism and posits how public journalism can inform future journalistic endeavors.

In addition to a provocative "state of the practice" piece by Buzz Merritt -- an instrumental founder of the public journalism movement -- the book features original research, case studies and essays by scholars such as Joyce Nip, David Ryfe, Serena Carpenter, Donica Mensing, Sue Robinson and Aaron Barlow. The volume also features interviews with Tanni Haas, Lewis Friedland and Jan Schaffer.

This book can serve as a resource for classes in contemporary journalism practice and theory, especially for exploring how professionals and amateurs can effectively work together to develop a more relevant and citizen-engaged press.

Each chapter also features a summary area that offers, for pedagogical use, key theoretical and practical implications and reflection questions. As summarized by Routledge:

This collection establishes how public journalism principles and practices offers journalists, scholars, and citizens insights into how digital technology and other contemporary practices can increase civic engagement and improve public life.

Updated bibliography of civic & citizen journalism

Sue Ellen Christian of Western Michigan University has updated CCJIG’s bibliography with more than three dozen new titles relevant to public/participatory journalism published in the last few months. Sue Ellen started this project in 2008, when she served as the CCJIG research chair. The bibliography is available as a hyperlinked Web page and a printer-friendly PDF.

Please add to and edit the list by e-mailing your suggestions to CCJIG webmaster Jeff South.

Q&A with Len Witt on Sustainable Journalism

Leonard Witt, a veteran of the public journalism movement, has received a multi-year gift totaling $1.5 million from New York’s Harnisch Foundation to start a Center for Sustainable Journalism at Kennesaw State University, located in suburban Atlanta. In this interview with Civic & Citizen Journalism Interest Group chair Nikhil Moro conducted via Skype messages, a self-assured Witt lays out his plans for the Center and elucidates some premises of sustainable journalism. ...

We're No. 1 - AEJMC's biggest interest group

Nikhil Moro reports:

CCJIG has emerged as AEJMC’s largest interest group in 2008-09. We have 116 registered members of whom 57 are female; six identify themselves as African-American, two as Asian-American, and twelve as International.

Join the discussion -- on the CCJIG blog

We've created a blog to discuss issues about civic and citizen journalism.

Abstracts of convention papers

2009 Paper Abstracts: Presented at the 2008 AEJMC Convention in Chicago

2008 Paper Abstracts: Presented at the 2008 AEJMC Convention in Chicago

2007 Paper Abstracts: Presented at the 2007 AEJMC Convention, in Washington, D.C.

2006 Paper Abstracts: Presented at the 2006 AEJMC Convention, in San Francisco

2005 Paper Abstracts: Presented at the 2005 AEJMC Convention, in San Antonio

2004 Paper Abstracts: Presented at the 2004 AEJMC Convention, in Toronto

2003 Paper Abstracts: Presented at the 2003 AEJMC Convention, in Kansas City

2002 Paper Abstracts: Presented at the 2002 AEJMC Convention, in Miami Beach, Florida.

2001 Paper Abstracts: Presented at the 2001 AEJMC Convention in Washington, D.C.

2000 Paper Abstracts: Presented at the 2000 AEJMC Convention in Phoenix

1999 Paper Abstracts: Presented at the 1999 AEJMC Convention in New Orleans

1998 Paper Abstracts: Presented at the 1998 AEJMC Convention in Baltimore

1997 Paper Abstracts: Presented at the 1997 AEJMC Convention in Chicago

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