I spent last week at the 2nd International Congress of Communication for Peace sponsored by Universidad Santo Tomás in Bogota, Colombia. I presented a paper entitled: Journalism, Public Deliberation and Democracy: Advancing High Ideals in Challenging Times. It is in the process of being translated into Spanish for publication.
The conference was impressive with a nice [...]
A National Civic Review article Community Blogging: The New Wave of Citizen Journalism highlights our Representative Journalism project, now going under the bigger umbrella name of Citizen Supported Journalism. Locally Grown, the blog in Northfield, Minnesota where our journalist/fellow Bonnie Obremski presents her journalism, is given as an example of community blogging and citizen journalism.
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Doug McGill’s journalism class at Carleton College produced a video about our Representative Journalism project at the Locally Grown blog in Northfield, Minnesota. Rep J reporter Bonnie Obremski and Locally Grown blogger Griff Wigley are highlighted.
McGill’s students have been posting an impressive series of local journalism stories and posting them at Locally Grown. Their [...]
Nikhil Moro, a native of India, has an excellent post at the Civic and Citizen Journalism Interest Group blog about what it was like to be in the USA and keep up with the the terrorist tragedy as it unfolded in Mumbai. He lists an impressive combination of mainstream media, Twitter, Flickr, Wikipedia, bloggers and [...]
Today I got what I thought was a spam comment on a post I wrote entitled Take a Photo a Day, Join Project 365, but alas it was from a stranger Stephen Chapman who had indeed taken a photo a day for year. That’s his goose photo.
It reminded me that maybe, just maybe, I want [...]
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.