V monografii issledovan opyt professional'noy grazhdanskoy zhurnalistiki (civic journalism) v razvitii mestnykh obshchestvennykh initsiativ. V teoreticheskom obzore avtor analiziruet vliyanie idey grazhdanskoy zhurnalistiki SShA 90-kh - nachala 2000-kh gg. na rekonstruktsiyu sovremennoy media-sistemy SShA i sozdanie novykh modeley zhurnalistiki s uchastiem grazhdan. Avtor daet opisanie informatsionnykh kampaniy na printsipakh grazhdanskoy zhurnalistiki, kotorye byli proveli redaktsii gorodskikh gazet i TV Severo-Zapada Rossii. V osnove kazhdoy kampanii lezhit ostraya gorodskaya problema, kotoruyu redaktsiya reshaet s partnerami obshchestvennymi ob"edineniyami, initsiativnymi grazhdanami. Dlya kampaniy ispol'zovana metodika proektnoy deyatel'nosti v sotsiokul'turnoy sfere, adaptirovannaya dlya redaktsiy. Izdanie prednaznacheno dlya zhurnalistov, studentov i prepodavateley fakul'tetov zhurnalistiki vysshikh uchebnykh zavedeniy, a takzhe dlya tvorcheskikh laboratoriy i studiy zhurnalistiki.