Civic and Citizen Journalism Interest Group
Teaching resources
Send us your CJ syllabus and teaching tips

We hope to develop a bank of syllabi and tips for teaching civic journalism.

If you teach or have taught civic or public or citizen-based journalism, either as a stand-alone offering or as part of another course, please share your syllabus and other teaching materials. You may e-mail them as Microsoft Word documents or text-file attachments to Jeff South at jcsouth@vcu.edu.

And if you have a civic journalism Web page, we'd like to list that, too.

Indiana University offers civic journalism course

For the first time, Indiana University-Bloomington has offered a class on the theory and practice of civic journalism. The class is part of a partnership between the School of Journalism, the Bloomington Herald-Times, television station WTIU and radio station WFIU. Here are the details.
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Charity, Arthur. (1995). Doing Public Journalism. NY: Guilford.
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.
Haas, Tanni. (2000). Public journalism challenges to curriculum and instruction. Journalism & Mass Communication Educator 55(autumn), 27-41.
Johnson, Phylis. (1996). A model for evaluation of mass media coverage: Helping students clarify issues and values. Journalism & Mass Communication Educator 51(autumn), 81-86.
McDevitt, Michael. (2000). Teaching civic journalism: Integrating theory and practice. Journalism & Mass Communication Educator 55(summer), 40-49.
Last updated: 14 August 2002

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