Watch Talk Tails

By on September 8, 2014   /   The Beak  
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Watch Talk Tails

Heron’s Eye Communications participated in the expo preceding NACL Theatre’s THE WEATHER PROJECT Community Play on Saturday, August 9, in Yulan, NY. We set up our “rookery” and invited people to co-compose poetry with us as part of our Talk Tails experiment, encouraging intoxicating conversation about the weather and where it’s all headed. We engaged in creative word play, stream-of-consciousness craziness, co-composed poetry and more. The results are presented in this short film for all to sip upon as we navigate

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Coal Cracker Youth-led Project Invites Input

By on December 6, 2013   /   The Beak  
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Coal Cracker Youth-led Project Invites Input

What’s a Coal Cracker? Think you know? It’s a question being posed by young Coal Region journalists to launch a new Mahanoy City-based youth-led media project titled, appropriately enough: Coal Cracker. Young participants are inviting the public—of all ages—to stop by the Mahanoy City Public Library during regular hours of operation to answer the question: “What’s a Coal Cracker?” by writing on, drawing on or decorating a 24″ x 36″ poster. The exercise is a way to explore our diverse

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Tools for Engagement Journalism

By on October 23, 2013   /   The Beak  
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Tools for Engagement Journalism

By Krista Gromalski krista@heronseye.com Engagement journalism—formerly referred to as civic journalism—mobilizes people to address local issues “in a powerful, focused way that shows how ordinary individuals can make a difference” (Denton & Thorson, 1995, How the News Media Might Work section, para. 5). According to leading theorist and New York University Professor Jay Rosen, civic journalism emerged most prominently in the early 1990s in newspaper initiatives focused on “regrounding the coverage of politics in the imperatives of public discussion and

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