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Beyond Headlines: How a University of Oregon Class is Using Index Data to Redefine Journalism

For the journalism students in Andrew DeVigal’s “Engaged Journalism” course at the University of Oregon, the assignment is anything but academic. Their classroom is the small, rural communities of Oregon, and their challenge is profound: How can journalism do more than just report on a community? How can it be more responsive to its needs? How can it help a community thrive? Particularly, they are exploring how local journalism can contribute to a broader civic infrastructure that fosters community connection, democratic participation, and resilience.
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New Civic Information Index offers crucial insight into civic health in the US

WASHINGTON, DC and PROVIDENCE, RI – Today marks the launch of the Civic Information Index, a groundbreaking new tool that maps and tracks the health of local information and civic health ecosystems across the United States. The initiative is co-led by The Listening Post Collective at Internews and the Information Futures Lab at Brown University, and supported by Press Forward. The Index provides a first-of-its-kind, county-level look at data on access to information, health, opportunity, equity, justice and other metrics that assess a community’s civic health. It underscores journalism as a key part of the local infrastructure necessary to enable robust, thriving communities, and helps philanthropists invest more strategically in local media by surfacing gaps and opportunities.
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