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During the 2000 election, Best Practices 2000 helped form partnerships between commercial and public television stations in eleven U.S. cities. Those partnerships produced special political projects ranging from debates to candidate biographies to in-depth issue coverage. And through the five workshops hosted by BP2K around the country, dozens of other news departments explored fresh ideas for bringing election information to their viewers.
The goal of Best Practices in Journalism is to help local television stations develop innovative political coverage.
Workshops
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Six workshops were held in 2002, exploring different angles in election coverage by listening to expert panelists, watching and discussing video stories, and meeting other reporters and producers around the country. Topics ranged from producing debates to writing effective truth-check stories, to covering complex issues like redistricting.
Keynote speakers are a popular part of our workshops; a growing collection of speech transcripts can be found online:
Candy Crowley
E.J. Dionne
Gwen Ifill
Brooks Jackson
Kathleen Hall Jamieson
Scott Klug
David Liroff
David Maraniss
Mike McCurry
Robert Reich
Steven V. Roberts
Dan Schnur
Terry Smith
Ray Suarez
Grants
Best Practices in Journalism awards Demonstration Project grants to stations interested in producing more innovative campaign coverage. During the 2000 election, we focused on partnership-building between commercial and public television stations in eleven different markets. For the 2002 elections, we broadened our financial support so that single stations and other partnerships were eligible.
See the complete list of stations receiving 2002 grants.
Model Stories
BPJ has been collecting a library full of video stories that we think do an exceptional job of reporting on campaigns and elections. We make use of these examples particularly in our workshops, and you are also free to browse through them on the web when youre looking for new story ideas. Much of this video library is on this site in streaming RealVideo.
We are continuing our collection of such video: through our workshops, though our grant recipients, and from a wide variety of other sources. If you have worked on campaign stories that you are particularly proud of, feel free to send them to us!
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