Assessing Community Information Needs: A Practical Guide, written by Richard C. Harwood of the Harwood Institute for Public Innovation, is a guide for adopting civic innovation strategies to spur the development of news and information environments that address real community needs. It is the eighth in a series of white papers following up the recommendations of the Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy, a project of the Aspen Institute Communications and Society Program and the Knight Foundation. Learn more at www.knightcomm.org