Continuing a tradition launched last year, Heron’s Eye Communications is back with our second annual Quintessential Quality of Life Quintet, celebrating the Top 5 moments, accomplishments and initiatives of 2013, as well as the people who made them possible. Of course, the list could easily be longer, but here are our top picks for those that enriched the lives of the humans and animals of the Upper Delaware Region. Please share and add a few of your own. 5. Dessin
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What’s a Coal Cracker? Think you know? It’s a question being posed by young Coal Region journalists to launch a new Mahanoy City-based youth-led media project titled, appropriately enough: Coal Cracker. Young participants are inviting the public—of all ages—to stop by the Mahanoy City Public Library during regular hours of operation to answer the question: “What’s a Coal Cracker?” by writing on, drawing on or decorating a 24″ x 36″ poster. The exercise is a way to explore our diverse
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By Krista Gromalski krista@heronseye.com Engagement journalism—formerly referred to as civic journalism—mobilizes people to address local issues “in a powerful, focused way that shows how ordinary individuals can make a difference” (Denton & Thorson, 1995, How the News Media Might Work section, para. 5). According to leading theorist and New York University Professor Jay Rosen, civic journalism emerged most prominently in the early 1990s in newspaper initiatives focused on “regrounding the coverage of politics in the imperatives of public discussion and
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