The purpose of these video tapes is to foster the efforts of reporters, editors, and producers to conduct good civic journalism. Specifically, the tapes focus on reporting on the happenings of a community by asking more targeted questions, finding better sources, discovering new stories, and reporting stories more accurately and comprehensively.

The first tape focuses on interviewing techniques journalists. The second tape teaches viewers how to frame a story, pointing out that stories that identify tensions or patterns may be more accurate, more interesting, and more engaging to readers and viewers. Finding Third Places: Other Voices, Different Stories teaches journalists to find "third places" in communities and then use them as entry points to acquire useful information and sources. Finally, the fourth tape emphasises ways to tap into the knowledge of ordinary people who are well-entrenched in their communities.
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