Title: Civic journalism - Wikipedia
Headings: Civic journalism
Civic journalism
Contents
Overview
History
Definition
Civic journalism in recent years
The evolution of civic journalism
Goals
Related concepts
Political journalism
Main tenets
Structure
Key proponents and opponents
Case studies
See also
References
External links

Content: 2) help the political community act upon, rather than just learn about, its problems; ( 3) improve the climate of public discussion, rather than simply watch it deteriorate; and (4) help make public life go well, so that it earns its claim on our attention and (5) speak honestly about its civic values, its preferred view of politics, its role as a public actor. Rosen explains five ways to understand public journalism: As an argument, a way of thinking about what journalist should be doing, given their own predicament and general state of public life. As an experiment, a way of breaking out of established routines and making a different kind of contribution to public life. As a movement involving practicing journalists, former journalists who want to improve their craft, academics and researchers with ideas to lend and studies that might help, foundations and think tanks that gave financial assistance and sanctuary to the movement, and other like minded folk who wanted to contribute to the rising spirit of reform. As a debate with often heated conversation within the press and with others outside it about the proper role of the press. As an adventure, an open-ended and experimental quest for another kind of press. Merritt, on the other hand, explains that it is the responsibility of the journalist to act as a fair-minded participant in the public arena.