
Reporting on Growth and Open Space Program The Reporting on Growth and Open Space Program was established in 2006 at the UNC Charlotte Urban Institute by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation as a three-year program to provide journalists in the greater Charlotte Bi-State Region with actionable resources for news coverage and editorial writing on local and regional issues related to open space, growth and development. In the Program’s first two years, seminars, webcast panel discussions, and an on-line Resource Manual have provided background information, story ideas, and useful contacts for journalists in the region, on topics as varied as the changing nature of environmental journalism, results from a region-wide survey of public opinion on growth and open space issues, land use regulation and private property rights, and locally-grown foods as part of the emerging open space economy.
For 2008, the Program will include a series of Roundtable Luncheons, as well as five new chapters of the on-line Resource Manual augmented by podcast interviews with local and national experts: Journalists’ Roundtables with the Citistates Group Spring 2008. An opportunity to engage with the co-authors of the 1995 Peirce Report on the Charlotte region as they begin developing the 2008 Citistates Report on the region, focusing this time on the challenges of growth. For more information about the Roundtables and Citistates Group, click here. (April 15 at The City Club of Rock Hill; April 16 at Soiree restaurant in Mooresville. Both dates 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM.) Fall 2008. As a follow-up to the publication of the 2008 Citistates Report, the report authors will share lessons learned from their first-ever return to a prior Citistates Report region along with a behind-the scenes look at what was left on the cutting room floor. (Dates, locations to be announced.) RSVP to Attend To RSVP for the Spring Journalists’ Roundtables, simply email Matthew Clontz with your name, news media organization, your email address, telephone number, and your choice of either the April 15 Rock Hill or the April 16 Mooresville Roundtable Luncheon. We’ll send you a confirmation by reply email. Questions about the Roundtables? Contact Matthew Clontz at mjclontz@uncc.edu or at 704.687.2767.
To be added to the email distribution list for notice of new Resource Manual chapters/podcasts website postings, please email Matthew Clontz , 704 687-2767 (RSVP’ing for the Journalists’ Roundtables will automatically add you to the email distribution list unless you request otherwise.) Download a copy of the 1995 Peirce Report Resource Manual Chapters & Podcast Topics Air & Water Quality Heritage & Culture Economics & Business Governance & Public Services Community Well-being Explore the Resource Manual (coming soon)

Reporting on Growth and Open Space Program

The Reporting on Growth and Open Space Program was established in 2006 at the UNC Charlotte Urban Institute by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation as a three-year program to provide journalists in the greater Charlotte Bi-State Region with actionable resources for news coverage and editorial writing on local and regional issues related to open space, growth and development.

In the Program’s first two years, seminars, webcast panel discussions, and an on-line Resource Manual have provided background information, story ideas, and useful contacts for journalists in the region, on topics as varied as the changing nature of environmental journalism, results from a region-wide survey of public opinion on growth and open space issues, land use regulation and private property rights, and locally-grown foods as part of the emerging open space economy.

For 2008, the Program will include a series of Roundtable Luncheons, as well as five new chapters of the on-line Resource Manual augmented by podcast interviews with local and national experts:

Journalists’ Roundtables with the Citistates Group

Spring 2008. An opportunity to engage with the co-authors of the 1995 Peirce Report on the Charlotte region as they begin developing the 2008 Citistates Report on the region, focusing this time on the challenges of growth. For more information about the Roundtables and Citistates Group, click here. (April 15 at The City Club of Rock Hill; April 16 at Soiree restaurant in Mooresville. Both dates 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM.)

Fall 2008. As a follow-up to the publication of the 2008 Citistates Report, the report authors will share lessons learned from their first-ever return to a prior Citistates Report region along with a behind-the scenes look at what was left on the cutting room floor. (Dates, locations to be announced.)

RSVP to Attend

To RSVP for the Spring Journalists’ Roundtables, simply email Matthew Clontz with your name, news media organization, your email address, telephone number, and your choice of either the April 15 Rock Hill or the April 16 Mooresville Roundtable Luncheon. We’ll send you a confirmation by reply email. Questions about the Roundtables? Contact Matthew Clontz at mjclontz@uncc.edu or at 704.687.2767.

To be added to the email distribution list for notice of new Resource Manual chapters/podcasts website postings, please email Matthew Clontz , 704 687-2767
(RSVP’ing for the Journalists’ Roundtables will automatically add you to the email distribution list unless you request otherwise.)

Download a copy of the 1995 Peirce Report

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