How Journos, News Orgs Can Support Civic Engagement

Amy Gahran

Since December 2009, the News Leadership 3.0 blog has been publishing a special series of guest posts by Amy Gahran on civic engagement. This series explores how news organizations and other institutions can implement the findings of the Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy. This joint project of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the Aspen Institute Communications and Society program produced the 2009 report, “Informing Communities: Sustaining Democracy in the Digital Age.”

Here are the articles in this series so far, in chronological order:

• Dec. 8, 2009: Community info building blocks: What do you already have?
• Dec. 15, 2009: Teamwork: Collaborating to build a community dashboard
• Dec. 22, 2009: Civic topic pages: Boost local traffic, democracy
• Dec. 29, 2009: Government 2.0: What’s in it for local news?
• Jan 5, 2010: Make key government documents easier to find, understand
• Jan. 12, 2010: Tips for seeking local news funding from community foundations
• Jan. 19, 2010: Volunteering widget: Basic gateway to civic engagement
• Jan. 26, 2010: Future of Media Project: FCC Wants Your Views by March 8
• Feb. 2, 2010: Civic App Contests: User-friendly local data complements journalism
• Feb. 9, 2010: If news orgs & journos won’t provide provide local civic news, who else could?
• Feb. 16, 2010: Partnering with libraries, “natural sites of media literacy”
• Feb 23, 2010: Google’s “Gig” fiber network: Could it help your town?

More to come in this series. Stay tuned!

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