Each week, as part of our commitment to transparency in our journalism, Scott Blanchard, WITF’s director of journalism, takes us behind the scenes to pull back the curtain on editorial decisions, discussions or approaches

Scott’s here with me in the studio. Good morning. 

Now, Scott, in this week’s email newsletter The Purple Buck, you wrote about a conversation you had with a professor at Colorado State University about ‘deliberative democracy’ – a way of community problem-solving that we’re working with in central Pennsylvania.