The way we do our journalism affects the way public life goes.
Journalism can help empower a community or it can help disable it.
Later, attendees heard from a diverse panel of journalists about how civic journalism values have influenced their work. During an afternoon session, groups of journalists and members of the Asian, African-American, Filipino, Hispanic and white communities engaged in a facilitated dialogue, using information from the morning session, on how to cover a Filipino community meeting on hate crimes using civic journalism values and methods. About 100 students applied this year. And kudos Van Dora Williams, Rosemary Harris and Rosalynne Whitaker-Heck for superb planning and execution of the civic journalism workshop.