Engaged Journalism, Democratic Engagement?: The Impact of Newsroom Listening Sessions on Political Participation
Abstract
This paper explores whether regional engaged journalism impacts democratic engagement
in local government. Carolina Public Press, a non-profit newsroom in Western North
Carolina, carried out a number of community listening sessions in 2014 and 2015. This
paper uses a difference in difference model to see if these listening sessions resulted
in changes to voting, political donations or testimony at county budget hearings in
the counties where these listening sessions were held. Across several statistical
models the presence of a listening session in a county does not appear to have any
statistically significant impact on any of the markers of democratic engagement.
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https://hdl.handle.net/10161/22749Citation
Kenmore, Abraham (2021). Engaged Journalism, Democratic Engagement?: The Impact of Newsroom Listening Sessions
on Political Participation. Master's project, Duke University. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/22749.More Info
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