New” concept in journalism urges advocacy”…

Likely, by now you’ve heard a little something about “public journalism.”

It’s a means of delivering information, sometimes liberally punctuated with opinion, that the American Journalism Review has termed “the hottest secular religion in the news business.”

Other words for the same approach are “civic journalism,” “community-minded reporting” and “community-spirited journalism,” and prominent among its many buzzwords is the term “community connectedness.”

It is such a hot topic in the news industry that a session on public journalism was included in a recent seminar on ethics that drew approximately 30 editors, reporters, teachers, etc. …