The records of the Pew Center for Civic Journalism consist mainly of the JAMES K. BATTEN AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE IN CIVIC JOURNALISM series that consists of entries from 1995-2002, which includes information about each individual project with accompanying exhibit material. Arranged by year and individual Batten Award number, the completeness of each entry varies in depth, and may include tearsheets, video and tape recordings, photographs, CD-ROMs, and other formats. The subjects include race relations, crime, alcoholism, poverty, AIDS, sprawl, transportation, voting issues, election coverage, education, housing, health, and drugs and violence. There is a master index, as well as speeches, agendas, and news releases arranged by year and Batten Award number.
Batten Award winners include the Argus Leader, Asbury Park Press, Baltimore Sun, Bradenton Herald, the Charlotte Observer, Chronicle Tribune, Democrat and Chronicle/Times Union, the Eagle Tribune, the Herald-Dispatch of Huntington and West Virginia Public Broadcasting, Idaho Statesman, Kansas City Star, New Hampshire Public Radio, Peoria Journal Star, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Portland Press Herald, San Francisco Chronicle, Savannah Morning News, St. Paul Pioneer Press, and the Wisconsin State Journal.
The Pew Center for Civic Journalism shared the results of various civic journalism experiments with the journalism community through its workshops, quarterly newsletters, publications, videos, and other outreach programs. Major partners were the Radio and Television News Directors Foundation, Investigative Reporters and Editors, The Maynard Institute, NPR, PBS's Democracy Project, The Kettering Foundation, National Association of Black Journalists, and the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications.
Additional series include:
The CITIZENS ELECTION PROJECT series documents the partnership between PCCJ and the University of Maryland College of Journalism, and consists of surveys and articles of voters in anticipation of the 1996 elections.
The STRAIGHT TALK FROM AMERICANS SURVEY AND POLL RESULTS series consists of polls conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates for the 2000 campaign season.
The PCCJ WORKSHOP AND AWARD CEREMONIES series includes speeches, agendas, video and tape recording transcripts, with accompanying tapes, videos, and other formats, arranged by year.
The GRANTS AND FUNDED PROJECTS series is a listing of PCCJ projects by year.
The EXHIBITS FROM FUNDED AND UNFUNDED CIVIC JOURNALISM INITIATIVES series consists of papers and exhibits, and may include tearsheets, tape and video recordings, as well as other formats, documenting projects that did not win any Batten Awards.
The OTHER CIVIC JOURNALISM series consists of civic journalism projects submitted to PCCJ, with accompanying tearsheets and videos.
The “WE THE PEOPLE,” WISCONSIN series consists of papers documenting the projects by year, with accompanying videos.
The PUBLICATIONS AND RESEARCH series consists of binders documenting newsletters, publications and research produced by PCCJ for each year, a complete PCCJ website printout from 1993, as well as PCCJ-produced videos and their accompanying transcripts.
