This from the European Journalism Centre:
Already facing a grim economic forecast, U.S. newspapers are digesting another piece of bad news: The growth in online advertising they saw as their salvation has slowed to a crawl. In the past few years, newspaper companies have been rapidly expanding their Web presence - adding blogs, slide shows and […]
The New York Times Public Editor Clark Hoyt uses a standard public journalism critique of The New York Times and the news media as a whole when he writes about the 2008 presidential election coverage’s horse race mentality. He writes in his column:
Through Friday, of 270 news articles published in The Times about the election […]
What if — and this is really a big “what if” — what if news organizations put together divisions that worked at producing blockbuster productions that people might actually want to download via iTunes or something similar. What if you had produced a video or audio production that was so popular that 100,000 people downloaded […]
About midway through a piece at Publishing 2.0 on why journalists should collaborative, there is a listing of who is collaborating. It includes Reporting On, which uses Twitter for reporters to tell what they are working on now, Jay Rosen’s Beat Blogging, David Cohn’s Spot.Us, and Serra Media’s Newsgarden.
I am about to make a my presentation at the Convergence and Society: The Participatory Web about Representative Journalism and how it works at Locally Grown in Northfield, MN. Here is a YouTube rendition of the talk, but it is not great on YouTube.
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.