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12:00 AM  Jun. 20, 2008
Citizen / Public Journalism Bibliography
By David Shedden (More articles by this author)
Library Director, Poynter Institute

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ONLINE RESOURCES

Center for Citizen Media
http://citmedia.org/
The nonprofit Center is jointly affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University Law School.

Citizen Journalism: Back to the Future? (PDF file)
http://www.hks.harvard.edu
Clyde Bentley's discussion paper prepared for the Carnegie‐Knight Conference on the Future of
Journalism, Cambridge, MA, June 20‐21, 2008.

Citizen Journalism and Newspaper Sites (link to PDF file)
http://www.naa.org
By Mark Toner, Report from NAA, April 2008.

Citizen Journalism Research @ The Missouri School of Journalism
http://citizenjournalism.missouri.edu/

Citizen Media: Fad or the Future of News?
http://www.kcnn.org/research/citizen_media_report/
The rise and prospects of hyperlocal journalism.
By Jan Schaffer, J-Lab, 2007.

Citizen Media: An Introduction. (Rising Voices)
http://rising.globalvoicesonline.org

Civic & Citizen Journalism Interest Group (AEJMC)
http://www.has.vcu.edu/civic-journalism/
Interest group for the Association for Education in
Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC).

Cole C. Campbell Dialogues on Democracy
http://colecampbell.info/

Covering Communities
http://www.coveringcommunities.org/
A site for journalists, educators, students and citizen journalists.

The 11 Layers of Citizen Journalism
http://poynter.org
Steve Outing, Poynter Online, June 13, 2005

J-Learning: your how-to site for community journalism
http://www.j-learning.org/
J-Learning is a companion to J-Lab's New Voices project.

J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism
http://www.j-lab.org/
J-Lab is an incubator for innovative news experiments that use new technologies to help people actively engage in critical public issues.

Kennesaw Summit
http://www.kennesawsummit.kennesaw.edu/
2003 civic journalism meeting
hosted by Kennesaw State University.

Knight Citizen News Network
http://www.kcnn.org/
A self-help portal that guides citizens and journalists in launching and responsibly operating community news and information sites.

MediaShift Idea Lab
http://www.pbs.org/idealab/
Idea Lab is a group blog by innovators who are reinventing community news for the Digital Age.

News University (Poynter/Knight Foundation)
http://www.newsu.org/
Training for Journalists. Anytime. Anywhere.

NewAssignment.Net
http://www.newassignment.net/

Ourmedia: Citizen Journalism
http://ourmedia.org/learning-center/topic/citizen-journalism
Resources from the personal media learning center. 

Pew Center for Civic Journalism
http://www.pewcenter.org/
This archival website helps preserve some of the work from the Pew Center for Civic Journalism.

Placeblogger
http://www.placeblogger.com/
Brought to you by the Center for Citizen Media, PressThink, and H2otown.

Poynter Online Search  ("Citizen Journalism")
http://www.poynter.org/
Search for articles and other postings from Poynter Online.

PressThink
http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/
A weblog by Jay Rosen.

Principles of Citizen Journalism
http://www.kcnn.org/principles
Knight Citizen News Network special section.

PJNet: Public Journalism Network
http://www.pjnet.org/
The Public Journalism Network is a professional
association of civic and public journalists.

Public Journalism: Where It Has Been; Where It Is Headed
http://www.imdp.org/artman/publish/article_14.shtml
By Davis Merritt, Kettering Foundation, 1997,
posted on IMDP website, July 2002.

Witt, Leonard. This Movement Won't Be Buried:
Reports of Public Journalism's Death are Greatly Exaggerated

http://www.cjr.org/issues/2003/6/voice-witt.asp
Columbia Journalism Review, Nov./Dec. 2003.

What is Participatory Journalism?
http://www.ojr.org/ojr/workplace/1060217106.php
By J.D. Lasica, Online Journalism Review, August 2003.

Your Guide to Citizen Journalism
By Mark Glaser, MediaShift, September 27, 2006.

BOOKS AND REPORTS

Anderson, Rob, Robert Dardenne and George M. Killenberg.
The Conversation of Journalism:
Communication, Community, and News.

Westport, CT: Praeger, 1994.

Batten, James K.
"Newspapers and Communities: The Vital Link."
William Allen White Speech, University of Kansas,
Lawrence, Kansas: William Allen White Foundation, 1990.

Black, Jay, ed. Mixed News:
The Public/Civic/Communitarian Journalism Debate.

Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1997.

Broder, David. "A New Assignment for the Press."
Press Enterprise Lecture No. 26,
Riverside, California: The Press Enterprise, 1991.

Carey, James W. "The Press, Public Opinion and Public Discourse."
In the book: Public Opinion and the Communication of Consent.
Theodore L. Glasser and Charles T. Salmon, editors,
New York: Guilford Publications, 1995, pp. 373-402.

Charity, Arthur. Doing Public Journalism.
New York: Guilford Publications, 1995.

Clark, Roy Peter. A Call to Leadership. Poynter Paper, No. 1,
St. Petersburg: Poynter Institute, 1992.

Clark, Roy Peter and Cole C. Campbell, eds.
The Value and Craft of American Journalism.
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002.

Corrigan, Don H. The Public Journalism Movement
in America: Evangelists in the Newsroo
m.
Westport, CT: Praeger, 1999.

Dahlgren, Peter and Colin Sparks, eds.
Communication and Citizenship:
Journalism and the Public Sphere in the New Media Age.

New York: Routledge, 1991.

Eksterowicz, Anthony J. and Robert N. Roberts, eds.
Public Journalism and Political Knowledge.
Lanhan, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000.

Enteman, Robert M. Democracy Without Citizens:
Media and the Decay of American Politics.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.

Fallows, James. Breaking the News:
How the Media Undermine American Democracy.

New York: Pantheon, 1996.

Fishkin, James S. The Voice of the People:
Public Opinion and Democracy.

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1995.

Friedland, Lewis. Public Journalism: Past and Future.
Dayton, Ohio: Kettering Foundation Press, 2003.

Gibbs, Cheryl. Getting the Whole Story:
Reporting and Writing the News
.
New York: Guilford Press, 2002.

Gillmor, Dan. We the Media:
Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People
.
Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly Media, 2004.

Glasser, Theodore Lewis and Cole C. Campbell.
The Idea of Public Journalism.
New York: Guilford Press, 1999.

The Hartford Courant Staff. The Straight Scoop:
An Expert Guide to Great Community Journalism.

Hartford, CT: The Hartford Courant, 1996.

Harwood, Richard C.Tapping Civic Life: How to Report
First, and Best, What's Happening In Your Community.

Washington, DC: Pew Center for Civic Journalism, 1996.

Haas, Tanni. The Pursuit of Public Journalism:
Theory, Practice and Criticism.
New York: Routledge, 2007.

Koch, Tom. The News As Myth: Fact and Context in Journalism.
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1990.

Lambeth, Edmund B. Committed Journalism:
An Ethic for the Profession.

Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992.

Lambeth, Edmund B., Philip E. Meyer and Esther Thorson, eds.
Assessing Public Journalism.
Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1998.

Lappe, Frances M. and Paul Martin DuBois.
The Quickening of America.
San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1994.

Lauterer, Jock. Community Journalism, 2nd ed.
Ames: Iowa State University Press, 2000.

Lichtenberg, Judith. Democracy and the Mass Media:
A Collection of Essays.

New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Merrill, John C., Peter J. Gade and Frederick R. Blevens.
Twilight of Press Freedom: The Rise of People's Journalism.
Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2001.

Merritt, Davis. Public Journalism and the Public Life:
Why Telling the News is Not Enough.
2nd ed.
Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, 1997.

Merritt, Davis and Jay Rosen. Imagining Public Journalism:
An Editor and Scholar Reflect on the Birth of an Idea.

Indiana University School of Journalism,
Roy W. Howard Public Lecture, April 13, 1995.

Miller, Edward. The Charlotte Project: Helping Citizens
Take Back Democracy.
Poynter Paper, No. 4,
St. Petersburg: Poynter Institute, 1994.

Patterson, Thomas E. Out of Order.
New York: Knopf, 1993.

Perry, David K. Roots of Civic Journalism:
Darwin, Dewey, and Mead
.
Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003.

Ripley, Jr. Casey. The Media and the Public.
New York: H.W. Wilson, 1994.

Rosen, Jay. Community Connectedness:
Passwords for Public Journalism.
Poynter Paper, No. 3,
St. Petersburg: Poynter Institute, 1994.

----. Getting the Connections Right:
Public Journalism and the Troubles in the Press.

New York: Twentieth Century Fund, 1996.

----. "Politics, Vision and the Press:
Toward a Public Agenda for Journalism."
In the book: The New News v. the Old News:
The Press and Politics in the 1990s.

New York: Twentieth Century Fund, 1992.

----. What Are Journalists For?
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999.

Rosen, Jay and Davis Merritt, Jr.
Public Journalism: Theory and Practice.
Dayton, Ohio: Kettering Foundation, 1994. 


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