Ad Age runs a story and video showing the behind-the-scenes work to make Esquire Magazine’s October digital cover and advertisement come to life. One commentator in the video calls it the beginning of a new era in magazine advertising.
Also Esquire invites you to hack their e-ink technology.
The Boston Globe runs a fine Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist, primer and update . The site also has a 28-minute audio discussion with Newmark.
A good quote from the article:
“They’re one of the very few companies in the world that could raise its prices with impunity,” says Peter Zollman, founding principal of Classified Intelligence. He [...]
Here is the first sentence of the State of the News Media 2008 report by the Project for Excellence in Journalism:
The state of the American news media in 2008 is more troubled than a year ago.
Here are highlights from the introduction (I will have more over the next couple of days):
Even with so many [...]
Here is the first paragraph of commentary in the Miami Herald yesterday by Edward Wasserman, Knight professor of journalism ethics at Washington and Lee University, with the headline: Can journalism live without ads?
Beneath the somber tales of shrinking revenues and staff cuts is an even more somber reality about the news business: The nearly two-century-old marriage [...]
As you might know, the Harnisch Foundation under the direction of Ruth Ann Harnisch gave us a substantial gift to start the Center for for Sustainable Journalism at Kennesaw State University. We are up and running. Keep abreast of what is happening at SustainableJournalism.org 
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.