Civic and Citizen Journalism Interest Group
Books & book chapters
Note: The following bibliography was last updated in 2001-02. Many of the citations on the list below have been incorporated into our new bibliography. However, if you did not find what you were looking for in the new bibliography, you might find it here.
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2000
Eksterowicz, Anthony, and Roberts, Robert N. (Eds.). Public Journalism and Political Knowledge (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000).

1999
Glasser, Theodore L. (Ed.). The Idea of Public Journalism (NY: Guilford, 1999).
Iggers, Jeremy. Good News, Bad News: Journalism Ethics and the Public Interest (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1999).
McCombs, Maxwell, and Reynolds, Amy. (Eds.). The Poll with a Human Face: The National Issues Convention Experiment in Political Communication (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1999).

1998
Gunaratne, Shelton A. Old Wine in a New Bottle: Public Journalism, Development Journalism and Social Responsibility, in M.E. Roloff (ed.) Communication Yearbook 21, pp. 277-321 (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1998).
Lambeth, Ed, Meyer, Phil, and Thorson, Esther. (Eds.). Assessing Public Journalism (Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1998).
Merritt, Davis. Public Journalism: Defining a Democratic Art, in E.E. Dennis & R.W. Synder (eds.) Media and Democracy, pp. 119-126 (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 1998).

1997
Black, Jay. (Ed.). Mixed News: The Public/Civic/Communitarian Journalism Debate (Mahway, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1997).

1996
Dennis, Everett E., and Merrill, John C. The New Communitarianism and Public Journalism, their book Media Debates: Issues in Mass Communication, pp. 156-165 (NY: Longman, 1996).
Gunaratne, Shelton. New Thinking on Journalism and News Puts Emphasis on Democratic Values, in Z. Bajka and J. Mikulowski-Pomorski (eds.) Valeriana: Essays on Human Communication, pp. 182-197 (Cracow, Poland: Osrodek Badan Prasoznawczych, 1996).
Rosen, Jay. Getting the Connections Right: Public Journalism and Troubles in the Press (NY: Twentieth Century Fund Press, 1996).

1995
Charity, Arthur. Doing Public Journalism. (NY: Guilford, 1995).
Merritt, Davis. Public Journalism and Public Life: Why Telling the News Is Not Enough (Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1995).

1994
Miller, Edward D. The Charlotte Project: Helping Citizens Take Back Democracy. (St. Petersburg, FL: Poynter Institute for Media Studies, 1994).
Rosen, Jay, and Merritt, Davis. Public Journalism: Theory and Practice (Dayton, Ohio: Kettering Foundation, 1994.)

1993
Rosen, Jay. Community Connectedness: Passwords for Public Journalism (St. Petersburg, FL: Poynter Institute for Media Studies, 1993.)

1992
Clark, Roy Peter. A Call to Leadership (St. Petersburg, FL: Poynter Institute for Media Studies, 1992.)
Rosen, Jay, and Taylor, Paul. The New News v. the Old News (NY: Twentieth Century Fund Press, 1992).

Conference papers

Last updated: 19 August 2002
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Abstracts of research papers presented at the annual AEJMC conventions
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List of research papers presented at AEJMC conventions
2000
Campbell, Kathryn B. (2000, August). Engaging the literature: A civic approach. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Phoenix.
Campbell, Kathryn B. (2000, August). Resolving public conflict: Civic journalism and civic society. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Phoenix.
Coleman, Renita. (2000, August). Civic journalism and the right side of the brain: How photographers and graphic designers visually communicate the principles of civic journalism. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Phoenix.
Frantzen, Guido, & Griswold, William F. (2000, August). Public journalism and criticism of the press. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Phoenix.
Haas, Tanni, & Schroll, Christopher J. (2000, August). Educating for a more public journalism: Public journalism and its challenges to journalism education. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Phoenix.
Loomis, David. (2000, August). A tale of two cities: Do small-town dailies practice public journalism without knowing it? Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Phoenix.
McDevitt, Michael, Gassaway, Bob, & Perez, Frank. (2000, August). The making and unmaking of civic journalists: Influences of classroom and newsroom socialization. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Phoenix.
Morris, John L. (2000, August). Citizen-based journalism: A study of attitudes toward audience interaction in journalism. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Phoenix.
Seow, Ting Lee. (2000, August). Public journalism and the use of nonelite sources and actors. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Phoenix.
Windborne, Janice. (2000, August). Civic journalism: One possible tool for building new democracies and civic society. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Phoenix.

1999
Campbell, Kathryn. (1999, August). Civic journalism and community policing: Potential for partnership. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, New Orleans, LA.
Lloyd, Carla V., & Slater, Jan S. (1999, August). Being a better neighbor: A look at how the Syracuse newspapers listened to readers to improve neighborhood news coverage. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, New Orleans, LA.
Loomis, David, & Meyer, Philip. (1999, October). Opinion without polls: Finding a link between corporate culture and public journalism. Paper presented to the meeting of Public Opinion Research, Raleigh, NC.
Massey, Brian L. (1999, August). Civic journalism and gender diversity in news-story sourcing. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, New Orleans, LA.
Morris, Jack. (1999, August). Constructing meaning: The role of the audience in news writing. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, New Orleans, LA.
Payne, Rebecca. (1999, August). Following their first steps: A lesson in launching public journalism. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, New Orleans, LA.
Rosen, Jay. (1999, August). Actor vs. outsider: The Washington Post on public journalism. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, New Orleans, LA.
Selber, Gregory. (1999, August). Resurrecting critical theory: Public journalism. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, New Orleans, LA.
Shah, Dhavan V., Holbert, R. Lance, & Kwak, Nojin. (1999, August). Expanding the "virtuous circle" of social capital: Civic engagement, contentment, and interpersonal trust. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, New Orleans, LA. [Does not examine explicit civic-journalism effort; rather, looks at issues of great relevance to civic reporting.]
Trumpbour, Robert. (1999, August). Media coverage of sports and politics: An examination of the press' role in campaigns for professional sports stadium construction. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, New Orleans, LA.

1998
Bowers, James R., Clafin, Blair, & Walker, Gary. (1998). A case study from Rochester, New York: The impact of civic journalism projects on voting behavior in state-wide referendums. Paper presented to the meeting of the New England Political Science Association, May, Worcester, MA.
Coleman, Renita. (1998, August). The visual communication of public journalism: A content and textual analysis. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Baltimore, MD.
Coleman, Renita. (1998, August). Design characteristics of public journalism: Integrating visual and verbal meaning. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Baltimore, MD.
Holbert, R. Lance, & Zubric, Stephen J. (1998, August). A comparative analysis of objective and public journalism as techniques. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Baltimore, MD.
Iorio, Sharon Hartin. (1998, August). Public discourse, economic/fiscal policy issues, and civic journalism. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Baltimore, MD.
Kurpius, David D. (1998, August). Public journalism and commercial local television news: In search of a model. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Baltimore, MD.
Loomis, David O. (1998, August). Is public journalism cheap journalism? Putting public journalists' money where their mouths are. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Baltimore, MD.
Maier, S., & Potter, D. (1998, August). Public journalism through the television lens: How did the broadcast media perform in Campaign '96? Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Baltimore, MD.
Rhodenbaugh, Eric J. (1998, August). Missing the link: Citizen-based journalism intent rather than election coverage content affects public trust in media. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Baltimore, MD.
Roberts, Robert, Eksterowicz, Anthony, & Clark, Adrian. (1998, August). Civic journalism, political awareness and the university. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Baltimore, MD.
Verykoukis, Andrea. (1998, August). A journalism less ordinary: The inspirational tone of public journalism. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Baltimore, MD.

1997
Chaffee, S., McDevitt, M., & Thorson, E. (1997, August). Citizen response to civic journalism: Four case studies. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Chicago, IL.
Coleman, Renita. (1997, August). The treatment of public journalism in three media review journals. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Chicago, IL.
Engelhardt, James. (1997, August). The language of public journalism: An analysis of the movement's appropriation of the terms "public," "civic," "deliberative dialogue," and "consensus." Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Chicago, IL.
Gade, Peter, Abel, Scott, Antecol, Michael, Hsueh, Hsiao-Yin, Willey, Susan, Fraser, Nancy, & Sanders, Keith. (1997, August). Civic journalism: The practitioner's perspective. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Chicago, Illinois.
Meyer, Philip, & Potter, Deborah. (1997, August). Effects of citizen-based journalism in the 1996 national elections. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Chicago, Illinois.
Newby, Christina. (1997, August). Issues and agendas: The case of Wichita, Kansas, revisited. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Chicago, Illinois.
Reynolds, Amy. (1997, August). The 1996 presidential campaign, civic journalism and local TV news: Does "doing civic journalism" make any difference? Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Chicago, Illinois.
Thorson, E., Mendelson, A., Ognianova, E., & Friedland, L. (1997, August). Affective and behavioral impact of civic journalism. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Chicago, Illinois.

1996
Coleman, Renita. (1996, August). The Intellectual antecedents of public journalism. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Anaheim, CA.
Dykers, Carol Reese. (1996, August). Defining "public journalism" by analyzing the news discourses of one "public journalist." Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Anaheim, CA.
Gunaratne, Shelton. (1996). Old Wine in a new bottle: Public journalism movement in the United States and the erstwhile NWICO debate. Presented to the meeting of the International Association for Communication Research, Sydney, Australia.
Jones Patterson, Maggie. (1996, August). Abortion, moral maturity, and civic journalism. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Anaheim, CA.
McMillian, Sally, Guppy, Macy, Kunz, Bill, & Reis, Raul. (1996, August). A defining moment: Who says what about public journalism. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Anaheim, CA.
McMillian, Sally J., Guppy, Macy, Kunz, Bill, & Reis, Raul. (1996, August). Public journalism: What difference does it make to editorial content? Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Anaheim, CA. 
Riede, Paul. (1996, August). Public journalism and constraints on news content: A case study of the people project. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Anaheim, CA.
Shafer, Richard. (1996, August). Journalists as reluctant interventionists: Comparing development and civic journalism. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Anaheim, CA.
Willey, Susan. (1996, August). Civic journalism in practice: Case studies in the art of listening. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Anaheim, CA.
Wyatt, Lisa. (1997, August). Framing the National Issues Convention. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Anaheim, CA. [Only mentions civic journalism.]
Yin, Jiafei. (1996, ,August). A trend, imagined or real? A comparative study of development journalism and public journalism. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Anaheim, CA.

1995
Denton, Frank, Thorson, Esther, & Coyle, James. (1995, August). Effects of a multimedia public journalism project on political knowledge and attitudes. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Washington, DC.
Dykers, Carol Reese. (1995, August). A critical review: Re-conceptualizing the relation of "democracy" to "news". Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Washington, DC. [Addresses an issue of relevance to civic journalism.]
Parisi, Peter. (1995, August). Toward a "philosophy of framing": Narrative strategy and public journalism. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Washington, DC.
Thorson, Esther, & Lambeth, Edmund. (1995, August). An evaluation of the cognitive, attitudinal and synergistic effects of a multimedia civic journalism project. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Washington, DC.
Weichelt, Ann. (1995, August). Public journalism: Leadership or readership? A look at the media entry into community activism. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Washington, DC.
Zang, Barbara. (1995, August). Missing voices in the civic/public journalism debates: "I never thought a newspaper could ask 'What if?'" and other citizen-reader observations. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Washington, DC.

Journal articles

Last updated: 10 May 2001
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2000
Blazier, Thomas F., & Lembert, James B. (2000). Public journalism and changes in content of the Seattle Times. Newspaper Research Journal 21(summer), 69-80.
Ewart, Jacqui. (2000). Public journalism and the news gender agenda. Asia Pacific Media Educator 9(July-December), 119-131.
Haas, Tanni. (2000). Public journalism challenges to curriculum and instruction. Journalism & Mass Communication Educator 55(autumn), 27-41.
Kurpius, David D. (2000). Public journalism and commercial local television news: In search of a model. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 77(summer), 340-354.
Loomis, David. (2000). A tale of two cities: Do smalltown dailies practice public journalism without knowing it? Asia Pacific Media Educator 9(July-December), 132-147.
McDevitt, Michael. (2000). Teaching civic journalism: Integrating theory and practice. Journalism & Mass Communication Educator 55(summer), 40-49.
McGregor, Judy, Fountaine, Susan, & Comrie, Margie. (2000). From contest to content: The impact of public journalism on New Zealand election campaign coverage. Political Communication 17(April-June), 133-148.

1999
Brewin, Mark. (1999). The interpretive community and reform: Public journalism plays out in North Carolina. Journal of Communication Inquiry 23(July), 222-238.
Grimes, Charlotte. (1999, February). Whither the civic journalism bandwagon? Discussion Paper D-36, Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Available at http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/presspol/publications/pdfs/83387_d-36.pdf.
Haas, Tanni. (1999). What's "public" about public journalism? Public journalism and the lack of a coherent public philosophy. Communication Theory 9(August), 346-364.
Hippocrates, Cratis. (1999). Public journalism: The media's intellectual journey. Media International Australia 90(February), 65-78.
McGregor, Judy, Comrie, Margie, & Fountaine, Susan. (1999). Beyond the feel-good factor: Measuring public journalism in the 1996 New Zealand election campaign. Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics 4(winter), 66-77.
Nelson, David. (1999). The controversy over 'public journalism'. Public Relations Quarterly 44(winter), 5-6. [Review of Jay Rosen's book, What are journalists for?]
Schroll, Christopher J. (1999). Theorizing the flip side of civic journalism: Democratic citizenship and ethical readership. Communication Theory 9(August), 321-345.
Simmons, Haven. (1999). How public journalism set the agenda for a public-safety complex. Newspaper Research Journal 20(fall), 82-90.
Voakes, Paul S. (1999). Civic duties: Newspaper journalists' views on public journalism. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 76(winter), 756-774.

1998
Alexander, Mary Jane. (1998). Civic journalism as rationale for aggressive coverage of domestic assault, Newspaper Research Journal 19(winter), 2-15.
Arant, David M., & Meyer, Philip. (1998). Public journalism and traditional journalism: A shift in values? Journal of Mass Media Ethics 13(4), 205-218.
Chadwick, Paul. (1998). Do media help or harm public health? Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health 22(February), 155-158. [Discusses activist civic role of public journalism.]
Eksterowicz, Anthony, Roberts, Robert, & Clark, Adrian. (1998). Public journalism and public knowledge. Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics 3(spring), 74-95.
Gade, Peter, Abel, Scott, Antecol, Michael, Hsueh, Hsiao-Yin, Hume, Janice, Morris, Jack, Packard, Ashley, Willey, Susan, Fraser, Nancy, & Sanders, Keith. (1998). Journalists' attitudes toward civic journalism media roles. Newspaper Research Journal 19(fall), 10-26.
Gunaratne, Shelton. (1998). Old wine in a new bottle: Public journalism, developmental journalism, and social responsibility. In M.E. Roloff (Ed.), Communication Yearbook 21 (pp. 276-321).
Jamieson, Paul W. (1998). Lost in translation: Civic journalism's applicability to newspaper coverage of the U.S. Supreme Court. Communications and the Law 20(March): 1-35.
Massey, Brian L. (1998). Civic journalism and nonelite sourcing: Making routine newswork of community connectedness. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 75(summer), 394-407.
McGregor, Judy, Comrie, Margie, & Campbell, Judi. (1998). Public journalism and proportional representation: The New Zealand experiment. Australian Journalism Review 20(1), 1-22.
Patterson, Maggie Jones, & Hall, Megan Williams. (1998). Abortion, moral maturity and civic journalism. Critical Studies in Mass Communication 15(June), 91-115.
Shafner, Richard. (1998). Comparing development journalism and public journalism as interventionist press models. Asian Journal of Communication 8(1), 31-52.
St. John, Burton III. (1998). Public relations as community-building: Then and now. Public Relations Quarterly 43(spring), 34-40. [Discusses media's assumption of community-building role from public relations.]
Willey, Susan. (1998). Civic journalism in practice: Case studies in the art of listening. Newspaper Research Journal 19(winter), 16-29.

1997
Buckner, Jennie. (1997). The [1996] election: Public journalism: Giving voters a voice, Media Studies Journal (winter).
Clark, Chuck. (1997). In favor of civic journalism, Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics 2(summer), 118-124.
Coleman, Renita. (1997). The intellectual antecedents of public journalism, Journal of Communication Inquiry 21(1), 60-76.
Gartner, Michael. (1997). The [1996] Election: Public Journalism: Seeing Through the Gimmicks, Media Studies Journal (winter).
Grimes, Charlotte. (1997). Wither the civic journalism bandwagon? Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics 2(summer), 125-130.
Hardt, Hanno. (1997). The quest for public journalism. Journal of Communication 47(3), 102-109. [Book review.]
Jackson, William E. (1997). Save democracy from civic journalism: North Carolina's odd experiment, Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics 2(summer), 102-117.
Lloyd, Clem, & Hippocrates, Cratis. (1997). Public journalism, public participation and Australian citizenship. Culture and Policy 8(2), 9-21.
McKnight, David. (1997). Public journalism, citizenship and strategies for change. Culture and Policy 8(2), 23-30.
Parisi, Peter. (1997). Towards a "philosophy of framing": News narratives for public journalism. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 74(winter), 673-686.
Sanchez, J.F. (1997). Reader participation in Spanish electoral coverage: The case of a small newspaper. Political Communication 14 (October/December), 497-502. [Reports on a 1993 civic journalism project in Spain.]

1996
Brewer, Marcus, & McCombs, Maxwell. (1996). Setting the community agenda, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 73(spring), 7-16. [Does not examine explicit civic journalism effort; rather, looks at San Antonio Light (Texas) project suggested as useful to civic journalism.]
Ettema, James S., & Peer, Limor. (1996). Good news from a bad neighborhood: Toward an alternative to the discourse of urban pathology, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 73(winter), 835-856. [Does not examine explicit civic-journalism effort; rather, looks at a reporting device suggested as useful to civic journalists.]
Glasser, Theodore L., & Craft, Stephanie. (1996). Public journalism and the prospects for press accountability, Journal of Mass Media Ethics 11(3), 152-158.
Hodges, Louis W. (1996). Ruminations about the communitarian debate. Journal of Mass Media Ethics 11(3), 133-139.
Levine, Peter. (1996). Public journalism and deliberation, Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy 16(1).

1995
Lambeth, Edmund, & Craig, David. (1995). Civic journalism as research, Newspaper Research Journal 16(2), 148-160.
Merritt, Davis. (1995). Public journalism: Defining a democratic art, Media Studies Journal 9(3), 125-132.
Public Journalism: Is It the Death or Savior of the Craft? (1995). IRE Journal (Nov.-Dec.), 3-10.
Rosen, Jay. (1995). Cyncism and faltering public will: What should we be doing? IRE Journal (Nov.-Dec.). [Published online at Public Broadcast System, WGBH/Frontline.]
Rosen, Jay. (1995). Public journalism: A case for public scholarship. Change 27(May-June), 34-38.

1994
Rosen, Jay. (1994). Making things more public: On the political responsibility of the media intellectual, Critical Studies in Mass Communication 11, 362-388.

1992
Bare, John. (1992). Case study: Wichita and Charlotte: The leap of passive press to activism, Media Studies Journal 6(4), 149-161.

1991
Rosen, Jay. (1991). Making journalism more public, Communication 12(4), 267-284.

Reports

Last updated: 10 May 2001
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1997
Blomquist, David, & Zukin, Cliff. (1997). Does Public Journalism Work? The "Campaign Central" Experience. Washington, D.C.: Pew Center for Civic Journalism. [Study of The Record newspaper in New Jersey.]
Feedback: Attitudes toward civic journalism. (1997, winter). Civic Catalyst Newsletter. Available at http://www.pewcenter.org/doingcj/civiccat/displayCivcat.php?id=33. [Report on survey that included civic-journalism questions.]
Newspaper Journalists Examined in Major Study. (1997, April 10). Available at http://www.asne.org/kiosk/news/workforc.htm. [American Society of Newspaper Editors press release on survey that included civic-journalism questions.]
The Poynter Election Project. (1997). St. Petersburg, FL: Poynter Institute for Media Studies. [Update of the Poynter Institute for Media Studies' analysis of 1996 US national elections.]
Thorson, Esther, & Friedland, Lewis A., with Anderson, Peggy. (1997). Civic Lessons: Report on Four Civic Journalism Projects Funded by the Pew Center for Civic Journalism. Washington, D.C.: Pew Center for Civic Journalism.

1996
Schaffer, Jan, & Cloud, Stanley (Eds.), with Kathleen Fitzgerald. (1996). The Citizen Elections Project Case Studies. Washington, D.C.: Pew  Center for Civic Journalism.

1995
Clark, Ronald D. (1995, January). Foundations and public journalism. Speech to the meeting of the Newspaper-Related Foundations, Miami, FL.
Denton, Frank, & Thorson, Esther. (1995). Civic Journalism: Does It Work? Washington, D.C.: Pew Center for Civic Journalism.
Schaffer, Jan, & Miller, Edward D. (Eds.), with Staci D. Kramer. (1995). Civic Journalism: Six Case Studies. Washington, D.C.: Pew Center for Civic Journalism, & St. Petersburg, FL: Poynter Institute for Media Studies.

1993
Austin, Lisa A. (1993). For and Against: Working Journalists React to Public Journalism. New York University: Project on Public Life and the Press.

Trade & other publications

Last updated: 10 May 2001
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1999
Fitzgerald, Mark. (1999, May 15). The boredom of civic journalism. Editor & Publisher, p. 6.
Noack, David. (1999, Jan. 23). Prof criticizes SPJ ethics code. Editor & Publisher, pp. 13, 45. [He notes the latest SPJ code includes public journalism language.]
St. John, Burton III. (1999, Oct. 30). Why not 'public journalism'? Editor & Publisher, p. 54.

1998
Benesch, Susan. (1998, March-April). The rise of solutions journalism. American Journalism Review, p. 36.
Bleske, Glen L. (1998, winter). Civic, traditional journalism clash in remaking troubled newspapers. Leadtime, p. 6-7.
Fitzgerald, Mark. (1998, May 23). Uncivil about "civic journalism." Editor & Publisher, p. 14.
Foley, Michael. (1998, April 1). A challenging new dimension to service. Irish Times, p. 23.
Liebeskind, Ken. (1998, Dec. 19). Grants' largess benefits many. Editor & Publisher, p. 11.
Lewis, Sylvia. (1998). Journalism awards: Making the news happen. Planning 64(April), pp. 26-27. [Article says American Planning Association's journalism awards show growing power of civic journalism.]
Noack, David. (1998, November). Civic journalism in cyberspace. Editor & Publisher, pp. 26-28. [In Mediainfo.com supplement.]
Shaw, Gwyneth K. (1998, April 2). Are journalists crossing the line? Orlando (FL) Sentinel, p. D3.

1997
Childs, Kelvin. (1997, August 16). Civic journalism gets a boost. Editor & Publisher, p. 7-8.
Civic journalism booster book. (1997, Dec. 20). Editor & Publisher, p. 34.
Civic journalism debated in Argentina. (1997, September). Freedom Forum and Newseum News.
Civic journalism gives voters a voice -- but does civics drown out journalism? (1997, March). American Journalism Review, pp. 10-11.
Corrigan, Don. (1997, March). Racial pledges, gang summits, election forums: What actually makes a public journalism project? St. Louis Journalism Review.
Corrigan, Don. (1997, June). Buzzwords of civic journalism appear in [St. Louis] Post. St. Louis Journalism Review.
Diamond, Edwin. (1997, July-August). Civic journalism: An experiment that didn't work. Columbia Journalism Review. [See also, Civic lesson, a letter to the CJR editor/response by Ed Fouhy, Pew Center for Civic Journalism.]
Effron, Seth. (1997, February). The North Carolina experiment. Columbia Journalism Review, pp. 12-14.
Fee, Frank E. Jr. (1997, August 10). Journalists, readers far apart -- on some points. News and Observer (Raleigh, NC).
Floyd, G. Douglas. (1997, July-August). A sacrifice for civic journalism: A civic journalism backlash. American Journalism Review.
Fouhy, Ed, & Paul McMasters. (1997). The case for and against civic journalism. [Online at First Amendment Center.]
Haab, Mark. (1997, October-November). With an eye on solutions to problems: "Public" or "civic" journalism. Quill and Scroll, pp. 7-10.
Preecs, Bart. (1997). Going online? Going public? Why not do both? [Online at Computers, Media and Democracy.]
Schaffer, Jan. (1997, May). The best or worst? Quill, p. 25.
Stein, M.L. (1997, May 24). The culture of timidity. Editor & Publisher, pp.14-15.
Stein, M.L. (1997, Oct. 25). Public journalism loved and hated. Editor & Publisher, p. 31.
Tynen, James F. (1997, Sept. 6). Information as enemy: Rethinking the news. Editor & Publisher, pp. 56, 42.
United States Information Service. (1997). Symposiums on civic journalism. Held 14-15 April in Oslo,Norway; 18 April in Bergen, Norway.

1996
Archer, Jeff. (1996, September-October). Public journalism from the streets. IRE Journal, pp. 6-9.
Balough, Maggie. (1996, January-February). Changing techniques. Quill, pp. 20-22.
Beaudry, Ann E. (1996). The civic role in public journalism. National Civic Review 85, p. 26-28.
Buckner, Jennie. (1996, October 19). Public journalism: Good or bad news? Charlotte Observer, North Carolina.
California daily to share news with TV station. (1996, Dec. 21). Editor & Publisher, p. 10.
Charity, Arthur. (1996, Jaunary-February). Reluctant sea change: Resources abound for journalists seeking information about public journalism's role. Quill, p. 23-27.
Charity, Arthur. (1996). Public journalism for the people. National Civic Review 85, p. 7-13.
Charity, Arthur. (1996). What is public journalism? Five communities, five examples. National Civic Review 85, p. 14-17.
Conte, Chris. (1996,September). Civic journalism: Can press reforms revitalize democracy? CQ Researcher, p. 817-840.
Dinges, John. (1996). Civic journalism comes to Buenos Aries. Civic Catalyst Newsletter (summer). Available at http:/www.pewcenter.org/doingcj.civiccat.
Fouhy, Ed. (1997). Civic journalism: Rebuilding the foundations of democracy. Civic Partners (Spring), Pew Partnership for Civic Change. [Online at Civic Practices Network.]
Hernandez, Debra Gersh. (1996, Feb. 24). Bewildered by the media. Editor & Publisher, p. 11.
Howe, Woodson. (1996, June). Roundtable: Public journalism. The American Editor.
Gunaratne, Shelton, with M. Safar Hasim. (1996). Social responsibility theory revisited: A comparative study of public journalism and developmental journalism. Javnost - The Public 3(3), pp. 97-107.
Kruh, Nancy. (1996). Public journalism and civic revival: A reporter's view. National Civic Review 85, pp. 32-34.
Lambeth, Edmund. (1996). A bibliographic review of civic journalism. National Civic Review 85, pp. 18-21.
Laurence, Jarvik. (1996, November 16). Pitfalls of public journalism. Washington Post, p. A23.
Mathews, David. (1996). Public journalism and public deliberation. National Civic Review 85.
Merritt, Davis. (1996, July-August). Missing the point, American Journalism Review. pp. 29-31.
Merritt, Davis. (1996). Beyond telling the news. National Civic Review 85, pp. 22-25.
On the heels of public journalism. (1996). Foundation News and Commentary 37(May-June), pp. 26-27.
Peterson, Iver. (1996, March 4). Civic-minded pursuits gain ground at newspapers. New York Times, p. D5.
Rosen, Jay. (1996). Take back the campaign. Nation (19 February), p. 10.
Rosen, Jay. (1996). Voters are people (get it?). Nation. [Online at Democracy Place.]
Shaw, Melvin O. (1996, spring). Public journalism concept gains momentum. Iowa Journalist.
Shepard, Alicia C. (1996, August). Press coverage: How Pew's civic journalism projects put newspaper, radio, and television stations on the payroll. [Online at Capital Research Center's Foundation Watch newsletter.]
Shepard, Alicia C. (1996, April).The Pew connection. American Journalism Review, pp. 25-29.
Stepp, Carl Sessions. (1996, May). Public journalism: Balancing the scales. American Journalism Review, p. 40.
Tharp, Mike. (1996, March 11). The media's new fix, U.S. News & World Report. p. 72, 74.
Theobald, Bill. (1996,July/August). Public journalism. American Journalism Review, p. 5. [Letter to the editor.]
Ward, Hiley. (1996, Feb. 17). Doing public journalism. Editor & Publisher, 23. [Review of Arthur Charity's book, Doing public journalism.]
Wilkie, Curtis. (1996, October 31). Public journalism plays out in North Carolina. Boston Globe. [Online at Nando.net.]
Woo, William F. (1996, April 21). Defining courage as search for truth. St. Louis Post Dispatch, p. 1B.

1995
Bogart, Leo. (1995, August). If not public, what? Presstime, p. 57.
Budiansky, Stephen. (1995, January 9). The media's message. U.S. News & World Report, pp. 45-47.
Calamai, Peter. (1995, spring). Another link with readers. Nieman Reports, pp. 39-40.
Chandler, R.W. (1995, winter). Connecting with the community, Nieman Reports, pp. 84-85.
Corrigan, Dan. (1995, July/August). Does 'public journalism' serve the public or the publishers? St. Louis Journalism Review, p. 9.
Dennis, Everette. (1995, July 29). Raising questions about civic or public journalism. Editor & Publisher, p. 48.
Dennis, Everette. (1995, July-August). Questions that should be answered about public journalism. St. Louis Journalism Review, p. 12.
Dennis, Everette. (1995, June). On people and the media: Raising questions about public journalism. Communique.
Field, Tom. (1996, March 18). In praise of public journalism. Editor & Publisher, pp. 56, 43.
Fitzgerald, Mark. (1995, November 11). Decrying public journalism. Editor & Publisher.
Fouhy, Ed, & Jan Schaffer. (1995). Civic journalism: Growing and evolving. Nieman Reports 49, pp. 16-18.
Frankel, Max. (1995, May 21). Fix-it journalism. New York Times Magazine, pp. 28, 30.
Frankel, Max. (1995, fall). Journalists should leave reform to the reformers. The Masthead, pp. 21-22.
Gartner, Michael. (1995, spring). A constant conversation with the people. Nieman Reports, pp. 14-15.
Harwood, Richard. (1995, January 17). Civic journalism 101. Washington Post, p. A19.
Hoyt, Mike. (1995,September-October). Are you now or will you ever be a civic journalist? Columbia Journalism Review, pp. 27-33.
Klotzer, Charles L. (1995. July/August). Public journalism: A new cult? St. Louis Journalism Review, p. 2.
Merritt, Davis. (1995, July 1). The misconception about public journalism. Editor & Publisher, p. 68.
Merritt, Davis. (1995, summer-fall). Public journalism and public life: A new paradigm of leadership models for community renewal. National Civic Review, pp. 262-267.
Meyer, Philip. (1995, November-December). Defining public journalism. IRE Journal, pp. 3-5.
Overholster, Geneva. (1995, Sept. 17). Learning from civic journalism. Washington Post, p. C6.
Peck, Chris. (1995, March). The ethics of public journalism: Three views, ASNE Bulletin, p. 44.
Ray, G. (1995, January 2). "Public journalism" is nothing new to most small papers. Publisher's Auxillary, p. 5.
Reider, Rem. (1995, December). Public journalism: Stop the shooting. American Journalism Review, p. 6.
Rosen, Jay. (1995, November-December). What should we be doing? IRE Journal, pp. 6-8.
Rosen, Jay. (1995, May 15). Public journalism: A case for public scholarship. Change, pp. 34-39.
Scholars debate public journalism. (1996, February 6). Freedom Forum Weekly, p. 3.
Seals, Louise. (1995, spring). Turning to readers to cover big stories. Nieman Reports, pp. 12-13.
Shepard, Alicia C. (1995, January-February). The real public journalism. American Journalism Review, p. 25.
Shepard, Alicia C. (1995, May). Climbing down from the Ivory Tower. American Journalism Review, pp. 18-25.
Stein, M.L. (1995, May 6). Beware of public journalism. Editor & Publisher, pp. 18-19.
Stein, M.L. (1995, Nov. 12). In praise of public journalism. Editor & Publisher, pp. 15, 14.
Stepp, Carl Sessions. (1995, April). Reinventing the newsroom. American Journalism Review, p. 33. [Reports on civic-journalism-inspired newsroom rearrangements at four newspapers: State (Columbia, SC), Charlotte Observer (NC), Minneapolis Star-Tribune, and Virginian-Pilot.]
We believe in "public journalism [Gannett Corp. Inc.]." (1995, April). American Journalism Review, pp. 16-19.
Winship, Thomas. (1995, April 1). Jim Batten and civic journalism. Editor & Publisher, pp. 32, 37.
Winship, Thomas. (1995, October 7). Civic journalism: A steroid for the press. Editor & Publisher, p. 5.
Woo, William. (1995). Public journalism and the tradition of setatchment. The Masthead, pp. 15-20.
Woo, William. (1995, July-August). Should the press be an observer or an actor in public affairs? St. Louis Journalism Review, pp. 10-12.

1994
Albers, Rebecca Ross. (1994, September). Going public: Public journalism unites some publishers and newsrooms in a controversial mission. Presstime, pp. 28-30.
Bhatia, Peter. (1994, August). Behind public journalism. APME Readership Committee, pp. 4-9.
Case, Tony. (1994, November 12). Civic journalism denounced. Editor & Publisher, p. 14.
Fanning, K. (1994, spring). Connect with community or perish. Neiman Reports, pp. 60-62.
Fouhy, Ed. (1994, May). Is "civic" journalism the answer? Communicator, pp. 18-19.
Fouhy, Ed. T(1994, January 10). Toward a new agenda in TV news. Broadcasting & Cable, p. 32.
Fouhy, Ed. (1994). The dawn of public journalism. National Civic Review, pp. 259-266.
Friedland, Lewis A., Jay Rosen, & Lisa Austin. (1994). Civic Journalism: A new approach to citizenship. [Online at Civic Practices Network.]
Glaberson, William. (1994, October 3). A new press role: Solving problems. New York Times, p. D6.
Glaberson, William. (1994, December 12). Press. fairness, bias and judgment: Grappling with the knotty issue of objectivity in journalism. New York Times, p. D7. [Interview with civic-journalism guru Jay Rosen.]
Koch, Tom. (1994, May). Computers vs. community: A call for bridging the gap between two camps. Quill, pp. 18-22.
Kurtz, Howard. (1994, June 5). Florida newspapers team up in attempt at voter-friendly coverage. Washington Post, p. A4.
Merritt, Davis, & Jay Rosen. (1994, December 13). In defense of public journalism [letter to the editor]. Editor & Publisher.
Pierce, N.R. (1994, July 2). Civic journalism: A new genre. National Journal, p. 1585.
Public journalism. (1994, Oct. 15). Editor & Publisher, p. 6.
Rosen, Jay. (1994, September-October). Journalism and the production of the present. Tikkun, pp. 13-18.
Rosen, Jay. (1994). The journalism connection. Adapted from speech to Project on the Press and Public Life summer program at the American Press Institute.
Shepard, Alicia C. (1994, September). Death of a pioneer. American Journalism Review, p. 35. [About Columbus Ledger-Enquirer (GA) Executive Editor Jack Swift's death.]
Shepard, Alicia C. (1994). The gospel of public journalism. American Journalism Review, pp. 28-35.
Stein, M.L. (1994, November 12). In praise of public journalism. Editor & Publisher, pp. 44-45.
Witters, J. (1994, December). Propaganda journalism? Columbia Journalism Review, p. 5.
Zang, Barbara. (1994, March-April). The activist: The paper that really gets involved. Columbia Journalism Review, pp. 12-13.

1993
Case, Tony. 91993, Jan. 30). Can journalists be joiners? Editor & Publisher, pp. 15, 43.
Rosen, Jay. (1993). Public life and the press: Building a new house for journalism ethics. Quill, pp. 27-28.
Rosen, Jay. (1993, winter). Beyond objectivity. Neiman Reports, pp. 48-53.
Steffens, Brian. (1993, September). Must a watchdog always bite: Are we killing our guture? Quill, p. 3.
Winn, Billy. (1993, winter). Public journalism: An early attempt. Neiman Reports, pp. 54-56.

1992
Dill, Sheri. (1992, September). In search of the public's agenda. ASNE Bulletin, pp. 14-15.
Hoyt, Mike. (1992, July-August). The Wichita experiment: What happens when a newspaper tries to connect readership and citizenship. Columbia Journalism Review, pp. 43-47.
Meyer, Philip. (1992). The media reformation: Giving the agenda back to the people. The Elections of 1992 (Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly), p. 92.
Rosen, Jay. (1992). Community action: Sin or salvation. Quill, pp. 30-32.
Rosen, Jay. (1992). Improving the press: Not for journalists only. Quill, pp. 32-33.
Rosen, Jay. (1992, winter). Forming and informing the public. Kettering Review, pp. 60-70.
Rosen, Jay. (1992, November-December). Discourse. Columbia Journalism Review, pp. 34-35.
Rosen, Jay. (1992, May-June). No content: The press, politics, and public philosophy. Tikkun, pp. 11-14, 77-80.
Schneider, Howard. (1992, September). Are newspapers crossing a troubling line with efforts to lead their communities? Bulletin of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, pp. 4-7.
Winn, Billy. (1992, September). In Columbus, Ga., report on the future led a newspaper to try to shape what would come. ASNE Bulletin, pp. 9-10.

1991
Rosen, Jay. (1991, October). To be or not to be? ASNE Bulletin, pp. 16-19.
Rosen, Jay. (1991). The erosion of public time. Quill, pp. 22-23.

1989
Rosen, Jay. (1989, December). Newspapers' future depends on shaping trends in how people live. Bulletin of American Society of Newspaper Editors, pp. 15-19.

 

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