I went to the NOLA.com weather site to check up on hurricane Katrina’s progress. Instead of a warning saying run for the hill country, here is the first thing I saw at the top of the site:
Become a citizen photojournalist!
Snapped a good storm photo? Shot any street flooding?
Submit your photo to NOLA’s new user galleries!
Do we have our priorities correct here? Scary.
Want to see what people knew in advance, see this series of stories.
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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.