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Coping With the Cost of Health Care:
What Is The Public Voice?
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"We can improve the conversation and that directly impacts people's lives."
Martin Carcasson
DDEX
Ibtesam, Rhanda Slim
Mideast Network
"In our research, we look at what ideas community leaders have about the role of the public in deliberating issues and forming policy."
Alberto Olivas
"When I'm working with the different Pacific Island communities, I must make sure that their way of being is always respected and regarded."
Moerangi Falaoa
"You can't sustain an urban community without the voice of its citizens."
Louise Spiegel
"Students have more of a sense that 'maybe we can do that, too.'"
Katy Harriger
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Journalism and Public Knowledge
The late Cole Campbell, dean of the Donald W. Reynolds School of Journalism, University of Nevada, Reno, and Kettering Foundation board member, wrote eloquently about the need for journalists to see their role as working in concert with people in their communities, acting as catalysts and facilitators rather than simply informers.
In an article, "Journalism and Public Knowledge" from the Winter 2007
Kettering Review
, Campbell writes that journalists might ask themselves first, "how do communities recognize and respond to common challenges or opportunities—and how might they recognize and respond more effectively," and then "how does journalism help communities recognize and respond to common challenges and opportunities? How might it do so more effectively?"
Download Campbell's article,
Journalism and Public Knowledge
Beyond Manipulation: Democracy and Media
In "Beyond Manipulation: Democracy and Media," from the Winter 2009
Kettering Review
,
Noëlle McAfee
argues that in a democracy “all who are affected by common matters have a voice in shaping those matters." McAfee, an associate research professor at the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University and associate editor of the
Review
, raises a key question, “can people use new media to create spaces that are more inclusive, or are they destined to repeat their polarization in cyberspace?”
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Beyond Manipulation
Winter 2009 Review
The Winter 2009 issue of the
Kettering Review
focuses on the role of the media in a democracy and how journalists can unintentionally become obstacles to a public that wants to have a stronger hand in shaping its own future.
Download the 2009 Review