In this video Eric Newton, Vice President for the Journalism Program at the Knight Foundation, says only 25 percent of community foundations fund journalism, but then tells why he thinks that number is about to grow.
If you want community foundation funding for local journalism projects, Newton says do your homework. Look at this Knight Foundation site and look specifically at the survey Knight did with community foundations. Then go pay your foundation a visit.
I am at the Journalism that Matters NewsTool2008 unconference being held at Yahoo!, which is providing the space but it is an independent conference. It started on April 30 and now we are on day three. The connectivity here in Silcon Valley has not been, believe it or not, great. But to find out what […]
CNN’s iReport puts out a promotional video describing its citizens driven iReport. So if you want to participate look for something exploding or a steer licking its nose. Best part: Atlanta’s own citizen journalist Grayson Daughters gives the introduction.
One wonders if all the criticism of the presidential campaign coverage is heard by the folks in newsrooms. Certainly it is not heeded. As I have said here many times, the Public Journalism movement was built as a reaction to the terrible news coverage of the 1988 presidential election coverage.
Elizabeth Edwards says it all again, but this […]
At 9:15 p.m. I turned off the TV, I could no longer stand to watch the left and right wing partisan folks on CNN and MSNBC scream at each other as they tried to get their political operative talking points across. What a waste of social and political capital in an election where more people […]
Leonard Witt is the Robert D. Fowler Distinguished Chair in Communication at Kennesaw State University and the chief blogger of PJNet. His academic interests include public and citizen journalism and how to get citizens' voices heard. He has spent most of his professional career as an award-winning journalist.
The Public Journalism Network is a virtual global network of journalists, educators and lay people interested in exploring and strengthening the relationship between journalism and democracy. It has evolved from a public journalism site to an informational clearinghouse for both public and citizen journalism.
