North Carolina blogger Ed Cone in writing of Harvard University’s Blogging, Journalism, and Credibility conference, says that some people have big ideas for blogging and journalism, but his desire is:
merely remaking the information business and fitting the outside into the inside of the media establishment, but that still seems pretty miraculous to me.
I agree that would be nice.
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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.