Community-Centered Journalism

Andrea Wenzel is an assistant professor of journalism, media, and communications at Temple University.

"Recommended." --Choice"Rooted in an impressive range of on-the-ground research . . . Wenzel has made an important contribution." --The Arts Fuse"Andrea Wenzel is that rarest of beings, a thorough and skilled academic and an accomplished journalist. This book is a must read for anyone wanting to fully understand the crisis of trust in journalism, how it grows from deep, ingrained roots and flourishes through lack of attention and engagement. Wenzel's examination of how journalism can better serve communities charts a clear empirical path for the field, but it also tells a compelling story about media, representation and social cohesion  at a critical time."--Emily Bell, director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism, Columbia Journalism School

• PrefaceIntroduction: The case for shared community storiesChapter 1. Shifting stories with solutions journalismChapter 2. Connecting journalists and community membersChapter 3. Developing an intervention: Building a public sphere in polarized placesChapter 4. The process is portable: Toward a community-driven interventionChapter 5. A new kind of journalist? Competencies for community-centered journalismConclusion: To repair, or to burn it down?Appendix: Methods for a Process ModelNotesBibliographyIndex