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"In places as far apart as Portland, Maine and Bremerton, Washington, public interest groups, grass-roots coalitions, councils of churches, and community forums have found an unexpected partner in the attempts to solve deep-rooted social problems: the press. Since 1993, dozens of daily newspapers, both big and small, have been networking through the Project on Public Life and the Press to create a new form of ""public journalism"" which--drawing on scholarship in political communications and conflict resolution, on practical experiments in public deliberation, and on the innovations of journalists across the United States--tries to make it as easy as possible for citizens to meet across social boundaries, deliberate, organize, and act. For the first time, Doing Public Journalism draws together this work. Although aimed primarily at journalists, it is a good primer as well for citizens interested in taking advantage of the opportunities public journalists are opening up for them."

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The book contains solid introductions to each chapter, useful sidebars, and case studies that are boxed within the text. Most sections end with a feature called 'Pushing the Envelope' which proposes ways of building on past work. These useful features allow Doing Public Journalism to be used as a classroom text. (The Teacher's Guide is available free of charge)....For the budding journalist striving to write and also produce responsible work or the average citizen intending to utilize the forums that public journalism can provide this book can be a much needed guide....There are very helpful references at the back, and in the index there are short specialized guides which would be very helpful for both experts and scholars in fields which this book draws on for its numerous examples. -- Sources Select Resources <br> An impressive summary of the popular literature that stands behind the idea of public journalism....The book is as much an instruction manual for citizens as it is for journalists on how to restart democracy....Students, teachers, and journalists will find it an accessible guide to the basics of public journalism. -- Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly <br>

If you are doing public journalism, this book is an excellent source of ideas and questions related to practicing journalism that makes it 'as easy as possible for citizens to make intelligent decisions about public affairs and to get them carried out' through a process of consciousness-raising, working through, and resolution. If you resist the idea of doing public journalism, this book may weaken your resistance...For educators, items addressed in Pushing the Envelope may be adapted for assignments and classroom discussions... Doing Public Journalism should be required reading for reporters, students and professionals...The book has an excellent annotated bibliography that points to examples of actual public journalism projects--and the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of key contacts. --David R. Thompson and Richard A. Phelan, University of South Carolina, in Journalism and Mass Communication Educator <br> In this timely and practical book, Arthur Charity argues thati

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Arthur Charity was an editorial writer and columnist for one of Canada's major daily newspapers, the Ottawa Citizen, before joining the Project on Public Life and the Press. His essays have appeared in magazines including Columbia Journalism Review, New Outlook, Israel Scene, Nature Canada, and the late, lamented Brooklyn Free Press. Between earing master's degrees in economics and journalism, he taught with the Peace Corps in Cameroon, central Africa.

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