Introduction
of Public Journalism
Public journalism known as civil journalism is the
idea of integrating journalism into the democratic process. The media not only
informs the public, but it also works towards engaging citizens and creating
public debate. Public journalism was not born on a university campus. It
started as an experiment at a newspaper, which led to a similar experiment at
another newspaper, and it simply caught on- without a manifesto, without any
list of principles, with nary a mission statement (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/)
Public journalism is a 'work in progress' whose
meaning is continually negotiated and revised by the journalists doing it.