I just received notice of this nifty website to help journalism educators in classrooms and I perused the feature writing syllabus. It’s very good. The site was created and is maintained by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University and is part of the Carnegie-Knight Initiative on the [...]
Ah, it was a good day at Kennesaw State University. More than 70 of our Department of Communication students were among the approximately 1,600 students who graduated from the university today. Later in the day the AT&T Foundation presented the department with a $47,500 check to underwrite new equipment for our Digital Media Lab.
It’s the [...]
Today I got what I thought was a spam comment on a post I wrote entitled Take a Photo a Day, Join Project 365, but alas it was from a stranger Stephen Chapman who had indeed taken a photo a day for year. That’s his goose photo.
It reminded me that maybe, just maybe, I want [...]
When I first met Stephanie Roberts at a party hosted by James Harris of Elemental Interactive, she was carrying a camera. She will be at our SoCon08 conference and at the conference’s social networking site, I learned she is involved in Project 365, where people commit to shooting and, eventually, posting one photo every day. [...]
As you might know, the Harnisch Foundation under the direction of Ruth Ann Harnisch gave us a substantial gift to start the Center for for Sustainable Journalism at Kennesaw State University. We are up and running. Keep abreast of what is happening at SustainableJournalism.org 
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.