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Pew Center for Civic Journalism

The Pew Center for Civic Journalism encourages, supports, and recognizes public affairs reporting distinguished by citizen involvement -- interaction between citizens and the news organizations which report on community issues.

Awarded November 1999

Recipients of CivicMind™Awards are selected ten times a year by Wendy Bay Lewis and announced on this web site to recognize organizations that create, promote and expand opportunities for civic engagement and community service.

More about Pew Center for Civic Journalism

• Created in 1993 as the centerpiece of an initiative of The Pew Charitable Trusts to stimulate citizen involvement in community issues.
  
  
• Offers quarterly newsletters, training, publications and videos, conferences and workshops for journalists and academics as well as listserv with current news.
  
  
• Annually presents the James K. Batten Award for Excellence in Civic Journalism to print or electronic journalists whose work supports people's involvement in the life of their community. The award includes a cash prize of $25,000.
  
  
• According to Jan Schaffer, PCCJ's first Executive Director, "Simply raising an alarm or spotlighting an injustice, which is traditional journalism, is not enough. Citizens these days need more help. They need to see some ways they can play a role, have a voice, or make a difference--some ways they can reclaim their participation in civic life. Citizen participation, therefore, is a defining feature of civic journalism."
  
  
  
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CivicMind™Awards - alphabetical list or by date since 1999.