Amy Gahran has an excellent outline of the ties between mainstream journalism and participatory journalism and their futures. Here are some of the outline headings:
What’s the point of news? Why do people want & need news? What do people do with news? Breaking out of the story format. Where do we go from here?
It is worth [...]
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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.