Read Report on Participatory, Public Journalism
At the Fusion Power Conference in Toronto.
The final report on the “Exploring the Fusion Power of Public and Participatory Journalism,” conference held on Aug. 3, 2004, in Toronto is now available for reading and downloading.
The 29-page report is titled “What We Heard, What We Learned: Exploring the Fusion Power of Public and Participatory Journalism.”
Click here for report.
It includes transcripts of remarks by such speakers as:
Anne P. Kothawala, president and CEO, Canadian Newspaper Association
Leonard Witt, Robert D. Fowler Distinguished Chair in Communication at Kennesaw State University
Dan Gillmor, former San Jose Mercury News technology columnist and author of We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People
Warren Kinsella, a Toronto-based lawyer, consultant and author of Kicking Ass in Canadian Politics
Jay Rosen, chair of the New York University journalism department and a founder of the public journalism movement
Jan Schaffer, executive director of the J-Lab at the University of Maryland
Jeff Jarvis, president and creative director of Advance.net
Lewis Friedland, a professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Neil Heinen, editorial director, WISC TV, Wisconsin
Mary Lou Fulton, publisher of The Northwest Voice, in Bakersfield, Calif.
The special report was edited by me and Les Anderson, an associate professor of communication at Wichita State University. The editorial assistant was Kelley Frank, a master’s student at Kennesaw State University.
Next stop is the Journalism and the Public: Restoring the Trust conference Aug. 9, 2005 in San Antonio. More details will be coming soon.
