I was at the Poynter Institute last week for a conference on “Who Will Pay for the News?“. I loved all the little projects starting everywhere, including my Rep J concept. Today the New York Times reinforces that idea with a story about small watchdog start-ups. Alliances are being formed. Positive change, my friends, […]
John Yemma, recently appointed editor of the Christian Science Monitor, tells of the plan and the costs for running the newspaper when it begins printing Fridays only and goes mostly online.
The cost for an approximately 80-person newsroom and eight foreign bureaus would be just $7 million a year, if it were all online, and $12 […]
Our Representative Journalism project is part of a larger story by Mark Glaser at PBS’s MediaShift. We get top billing with David Cohn’s Spot.Us. It’s an article you will want to read.
You can read my full responses to Glaser’s email inquiries here.
Spot.us, David Cohn’s innovative site to help fund journalism projects via crowdfunding, launches today. Here is the idea in four bullet points:
People submit tips
Journalists pitch stories
People fund pitches or journalists to do the stories
Stories are reported
Clay Shirky in his book Here Comes Everybody (Chapter 11), lays out three rules for successful social action sites like […]
As someone who backs the public journalism philosophy it might seem like heresy to talk about the horse race coverage of the election. But at the wire on Tuesday night it was fantastic. CNN was stellar with its touch screen maps, its 3-D Senate selection graphic and its commentators, who for the first time in […]
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.