Clay Shirky’s prognostication for the future of journalism:
“Things are going to get weirder before they get saner.”
And he adds:
“In real revolutions things get worse before they get better. .. One of the bad things I think is going to happen is, I think civic corruption is just going to rise [...]
I am at the Future of the News: Creating a New Model for Regional Journalism in America at Minnesota Public Radio. It is being livestreamed here.
Lots of people in the forefront of the journalism change movement are here.
I will be Tweeting bits and pieces at #LeonardWitt and the hashtag for [...]
This from Jay Rosen:
I was asked to speak recently at a conference organized by Yale University with the title “Journalism & The New Media Ecology: Who Will Pay The Messenger?” This irritated me. The question should have been “who will subsidize news production?” because news production has always been subsidized by someone or [...]
I am at the Yale University Law School for the Journalism & The New Media Ecology: Who Will Pay The Messenger? conference. I have my Flip camera with me and will be doing some, I hope, brief interviews with some of the key people trying to figure out the future of journalism. Then, if things [...]
Today as I write this, Jeff Jarvis is running his livestreamed NEW Business Models for (Local) News conference at CUNY.
On Friday I will be at Yale for the Journalism & The New Media Ecology: Who Will Pay The Messenger? conference and then on Monday I will be in St. Paul at the The Future [...]
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.