Assessing public journalism / Edmund B. Lambeth, Philip E. Meyer, and Esther Thorson, editors.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-284) and index.

Public journalism as a democratic practice / Edmund B. Lambeth -- Imagining public journalism : an editor and scholar reflect on the birth of an idea / Davis Merritt and Jay Rosen -- Assessing Davis Merritt's "Public journalism" through his language / Carol Reese Dykers -- A new strategy / John Bare -- Public journalism and the 1992 elections / Rick Thames -- Public journalism and newsroom structure : the Columbia, S.C., model / Scott Johnson -- Effects of a multimedia public journalism project on political knowledge and attitudes / Frank Denton and Esther Thorson -- Audience impact of a multimedia civic journalism project in a small midwestern community / Esther Thorson ... [and others] -- Public journalism : what difference does it make to editorial content? / Sally J. McMillan ... [and others] -- Public journalism and social capital : the case of Madison, Wisconsin / Lewis Friedland, Mira Sotirovic, and Katie Daily -- Public journalism in the 1996 elections : Jennie Buckner on giving the voters a chance vs. Michael Gartner on seeing through the gimmicks / Jennie Buckner and Michael Gartner -- Public journalism as cultural change / Edmund B. Lambeth -- If it works, how will we know? / Philip Meyer.