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Taking Down Newspaper Walls in the Digital Age

December 16th, 2010 by Leonard Witt

The New York Times has an interesting article about one small town newspaper’s transition to the digital age. Taking down the walls internally and opening up to the community is all part of the digital strategy for The Register Citizen in northwestern Connecticut. The article reads in part:
…the idea of the cafe, public [...]

Publishers small and large learn how not to get sued — New video

November 19th, 2010 by Leonard Witt

Our first 60-minute video from our Media Law in the Digital Age workshop is now up at our Center for Sustainable Journalism.
Big publishers and little backyard publishers like me are all at risk of getting sued in this new disruptive digital age. So to help you make better informed choices our Center for Sustainable [...]

Search 50% of Annual Archived Tweets for Just $360,000

November 19th, 2010 by Leonard Witt

Darn, another good idea bites the dust. Last spring when I heard that Twitter was going to archive all its Tweets at the Library of Congress, I was thinking wow what a free treasure trove of information. Well, there will be, apparently, no such thing as a free archived Tweet. At least there will not [...]

App Developers Contact Us for Journalism Grant Possibilities

November 4th, 2010 by Leonard Witt

Hello all you app developers out there. We need your help and will help you try to get funding for ideas that work well for both you and us. Let’s make contact before Nov. 12, 2010 and then set up conversations on Friday Nov. 12 to move our ideas to the next step via possible [...]

Election Night Multitasking: CNN, NYTimes, NPR and Blogging Too

November 2nd, 2010 by Leonard Witt

So it is election night, and I am listening to NPR on my iPhone, watching CNN, but mostly muted, on TV, and on my computer checking in at the New York Times’ FiveThirtyEight.com and blogging here at PJNet.org…but just one post I think.
What’s all this multitasking mean? Well, I can get bits and pieces [...]

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