PJNet » Howard Witt http://pjnet.org Public Journalism Network Mon, 12 Dec 2011 05:04:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Chicago Tribune’s Howard Witt Praises Black Blogosphere http://pjnet.org/post/1841/ http://pjnet.org/post/1841/#comments Mon, 11 Aug 2008 05:24:18 +0000 Leonard Witt http://pjnet.org/?p=1841 The Chicago Tribune’s Howard Witt, in a video interview with Leonard Witt of the Public Journalism Network (PJNet.org), tells of the power of the Black blogosphere in saving the then 14-year-old Shaquanda Cotton from seven years in jail for shoving a hall monitor and then how that same Afro-American blogosphere drove the Jena 6 protest in Louisiana.

He contends the White blogosphere — read HuffingtonPost – is less relevant than the ethnic blogosphere.  Finally Howard Witt says mainstream media job cuts might mean the Jena 6 and Shaquanda Cotton type stories, both of which he broke, might not be possible in the future.

It is a 10-minute interview worth watching.

By the way, Leonard and Howard Witt are not related — except that they both care deeply about the fate of great journalism.

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