Public Journalism Bibliography

Online Resources
Books and Reports

ONLINE RESOURCES

"Are You Now, Or Will You Ever Be, A Civic Journalist"
http://www.cjr.org/html/95-09-10-civic.html
By Mike Hoyt, Columbia Journalism Review,
September/October 1995.

"Civic Journalism: Does it Work?"
http://www.pewcenter.org/doingcj/research/r_doesit.html
By Frank Denton and Esther Thorson,
Pew Center for Civic Journalism, 1995.

"Civic Journalism Takes Root on the Web"
http://www.ojr.org/ojr/workplace/1017967188.php
By Barbara Bliss Osborn,
Online Journalism Review, November 1999.

"Civic Journalism: Six Case Studies"
http://www.pewcenter.org/doingcj/pubs/cases/
By Jan Schaffer and Edward D. Miller,
Pew Center for Civic Journalism, 1995.

Community Journalism Project
http://www.rtndf.org/resources/cj.shtml
Radio And Television News Directors Foundation.
They also have a resources page.

Jay Rosen: Public Journalism
http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/journal/
Faculty/bios/rosen/public_journalism.htm

Pew Center for Civic Journalism
http://www.pewcenter.org/
During 2003 the Pew Center for Civic Journalism will be spinning off
into a new initiative, J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism.

"Public Journalism and the Problem of Objectivity"
http://www.unc.edu/~pmeyer/ire95pj.htm
By Philip Meyer, IRE/University of North Carolina, 1995.

"Tapping Civic Life: How to Report First, and Best,
What's Happening in your Community"
http://www.pewcenter.org/doingcj/pubs/tapping/
By Richard C. Harwood,
Pew Center for Civic Journalism, 1996.

"Whither the Civic Journalism Bandwagon?"
http://ksgwww.harvard.edu/presspol/publications/pdfs/83387_D-36.pdf
By Charlotte Grimes, Harvard University, 1999.

"With the People:
A Toolbox for Getting Readers and Viewers Involved"
http://www.pewcenter.org/doingcj/pubs/pubs_toolbox.html
Pew Center for Civic Journalism, 1997.

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 Newsroom.
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.

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.

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.

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.