Edward Hodgman
\nExecutive Director
\nUnderstanding Government
\n1319 F St. NW, Suite 810
\nWashington DC 20004
\n202-783-2439<\/p>\n
I became executive director of Understanding Government in 2007, after working in Washington, Moscow, and New York and
\nreceiving a bachelor.s degree in Russian studies from Harvard and a Ph.D. in American history from the University of
\nRochester. Understanding Government, created by Washington Monthly founder Charles Peters, works to improving public
\nunderstanding of the executive branch. The executive branch is where policy is implemented, the people.s money is spent,
\nand millions of Americans work. Yet the real work of the executive branch . in scores of major federal agencies and
\ntheir counterparts on the state and local levels . is substantially unknown, particularly since major news outlets have
\nlargely dropped beat coverage of major federal agencies. As part of our overall journalism program, we want to foster
\nweb-based reporting on what the federal government is doing in states and localities across the country, and learn about
\ncoordinating Washington, D.C. and local reporting efforts.
\n
\n#How to reach out to local reporters, bloggers, and interested citizens to develop an audience and contributors to the
\nissue we are interested in (executive branch performance)
\n#The status of local online reporting about government and politics (both MSM and non-MSM)
\n#If and how readers become commenters, commenters become bloggers, and bloggers become reporters.
\n#Interest in reporting on federal government activities on the local level.
\n
\nWe are just getting started, but we have some experience in providing reports on major government activities and agencies
\nin ways that have proven popular to our readers. We have some background in reporting on government agencies that might
\nbe interesting to people tackling “large” concepts or institutions. These things are more a point of view than a set
\nstrategy or methodology, but we could talk about those issues informally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Edward Hodgman Executive Director Understanding Government 1319 F St. NW, Suite 810 Washington DC 20004 202-783-2439 I became executive director of Understanding Government in 2007, after working in Washington, Moscow, and New York and receiving a bachelor.s degree in Russian studies from Harvard and a Ph.D. in American history from the University of Rochester. Understanding […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-319","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/minneapolis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/minneapolis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/minneapolis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/minneapolis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/minneapolis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/minneapolis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":365,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/minneapolis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/319\/revisions\/365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/minneapolis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}