摘要：This research aims to investigate the impact of citizen journalism as learning model for students to develop their civic skills and civic empathy as an effort to strengthen character education for students. This study used a qualitative approach with classroom action research model by Bachman. The informants of this research are students in Civic Education Department, Universitas Muhammadiyah Surakarta. The results shows that the students had had skills and empathy as part of civic competencies for shaping their character and public morality. Through the citizen journalism learning model, both of these competencies are strengthened and appear more clearly with the learning patterns of doing and solving the problems through project completion. In addition, the results of the analysis show that the citizen journalism model is able to develop democratic attitudes of students such as open-minded, critical thinking, tolerance, and responsibility.
其他摘要：Penelitian ini bertujuan menginvestigasi dampak penggunaan model pembelajaran citizen journalism kepada mahasiswa untuk mengembangkan civic skills dan civic empathy sebagai upaya penguatan pendidikan karakter bagi para mahasiswa. Penelitian ini menggunaka
关键词：civic skills;empathy;and citizen journalism
其他关键词：keterampilan kewarganegaraan;empati;dan jurnalisme warga negara
