The Pew Center For Civic Journalism has funded 16 projects -- many with planning themes and focused on community planning.
Clickable maps of undeveloped waterfront. Smart Growth maps of a coastal resort. Online cancer risk calculators. Webcams in Spanish-speaking homes. These are among 16 new ideas to help newsrooms engage their communities that will receive funding next year from the Pew Center for Civic Journalism. Among the projects funded: an interactive, community-based plan for developing the Everett's two waterfronts, and an online effort to help the booming coastal tourist community of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina plan and control growth.
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FULL STORY: Pew Center for Civic Journalism Supports 16 News Experiments
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