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The Freehold, New Jersey “coffeehouse newsroom” got me thinking about the hard practicality of doing journalism as a social conversation. It wouldn’t be easy, and it would break a lot of decades-old rules about whose voice really counts. But we need look no further than public-journalism reform efforts of the late-‘80s and 1990s.

Public, or sometimes called “civic,” journalism is exactly what it sounds like. Embarrassed and somewhat guilt-ridden about the mass exodus of citizens from public affairs, newsrooms started experimenting with ways to re-engage the public.

Goodbye horse-race political coverage, problem-oriented reporting and top-down “conversation.” Hello issues-and-solution-oriented coverage with help from the grassroots. The thinking was that if you bring the public back into public-affairs reporting, those citizens might engage in civic life the way previous generations had, or at least show up at the polls to vote.

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