A Knight Digital Media Center conference brought together leading newspaper editorial writers to explore ways to make their opinion pages engaging and relevant again.

“The most compelling, and telling, answers in the opening session sprang from a best-practices share session, where the 20-odd newsies unveiled their range of active editorial-page endeavors.”

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The following is a syllabus for the Largemouth Citizen Journalism workshop, a six-week citizen journalism training program. The course teaches the essential journalism skills needed to write stories for newspapers, newsletters, magazines, and the Internet in a way that focuses public attention on important social issues. The course is taught once each spring and fall at the Resource Center of the Americas, a human rights nonprofit in Minneapolis, MN.