The Journalism that Matters conference handed TIME magazine the sort of kicker to its "Assignment Detroit Project" Sunday that newsmagazines usually can only dream of.
Three conference participants -- Detroiters Juanita Anderson, Alicia Buggs and Arthur Leggett -- proposed that TIME turn over the house it bought on the city's east side to locals committed to pursuing the story of "the real Detroit."
The group, which acknowledged that it came up with the idea only 24 hours before, has no track record in producing community news.
Featured later in the article is Roger Gafke, director of program development at the Reynolds Journalism Institute:
Roger Gafke of the Reynolds Journalism Institute described Sunday's pitch for the TIME house as "a gutsy ask" in light of the criticism that Anderson and other participants had leveled at the magazine during the four-day conference.
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