Clinging to Tradition, Welcoming Civic Solutions: A Survey of College Students' Attitudes toward Civic Journalism

Unveiling the Effects of Citizen Journalism Practice on College Students’ Social Capital

“…As it relates to demographic factors, minority students have significantly higher civic values 51 and are more likely to approve of citizen journalism compared with nonminority students. 52 In a longitudinal study that further investigated differences among racial groups, Ishitani and McKitrick 53 found that Asian students' civic engagement decreased after college, which was the opposite for African American students.…”

A Promising Connection of College Journalism Students and Community Engagement

“…Numerous literatures have shown that many news media outlets are in support of community-oriented practices emphasized by the public journalism movement (Voakes, 1999;Dickson, Brandon & Topping, 2001;Rauch, Trager & Kim, 2003). News workers expressed their willingness to play an active role in engaging the community and paying attention to the public"s life; they also agreed that the news media should dedicate adequate resources to help the public communicate with each other toward common problems and to reach a consensus.…”

“…The journalists believe that the news media"s involvement in a community, and the provision of in-depth news coverage of daily life and public issues, not only helps a community to grow better, but also allows the news media to gain positive responses from the public, and finally increase the newspaper readership. With the news reform movement spreading to other places, a philosophy whereby the news media is obliged to be actively involved in the community is gradually gaining ground within modern societies (Rauch, Trager & Kim, 2003).…”

El uso de las fuentes como estrategia de producción informativa en una agencia de noticias de género: El caso de CIMAC

“…Mientras seguía el eterno debate sobre las competencias que debían tener los estudiantes de periodismo (Bornstein, 2003), una vez más el periodismo cívico y comprometido socialmente volvía a recibir atención por parte de los estudiantes universitarios (Rauch, Trager & Kim, 2003). Todo ello, unido al hecho de que la producción informativa del periodismo local respondía a dinámicas tradicionales (Lang, Potter & Grabe, 2003), acababa derivando en un debate entre lo que esperaba el público de dichas noticias y lo que esperaba el periodismo tradicional (Heider, McCombs & Poindexter, 2005), es decir, empiezan a salir a la luz los asuntos críticos del periodismo (Boynton, 2005).…”