Coal Cracker Youth-led Project Invites Input

By on December 6, 2013   /   The Beak  
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Coal Cracker Youth-led Project Invites Input

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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Tools for Engagement Journalism

By on October 23, 2013   /   The Beak  
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Tools for Engagement Journalism

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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Crone Power! Profiles of Inspiring Older Women

By on November 29, 2012   /   The Beak  
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Crone Power! Profiles of Inspiring Older Women

We are huge fans of books—and reading—at Heron’s Eye Communications. So when a truly remarkable book comes across our path, we aim to share that news. Such is the recently-released Crone Age by Marcia Nehemiah, who lives and writes in the Upper Delaware River region of Pennsylvania. Described as “an honest and insightful examination of what it means to lead an inspired life as an older woman,” the book was born on the brink of Marcia’s 60th birthday as an

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