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New on Knight Citizen News Network: Top 10 Rules for Avoiding Legal Risk
If you’re running a citizen media site or contributing to one, these 10 rules will help you avoid legal piftalls. Games, exercises and video advice from Harvard Berkman Center experts and Media Law Resource Center attorneys. Produced by Geanne Rosenberg, [...]
Adam Weinstein, in the January/February 2008 Issue of Mother Jones, writes about the dangers of citizen journalism with his central warning being that “…newspapers may be taken in by crackpots and sly marketers…”
However, if you are one of the many serious thinkers who believe citizen journalism has merit, you would be left with the impression that Weinstein himself is [...]
Shelby Highsmith is Georgia’s MTV citizen journalist. He provides a little tell-all of what his training was like, and, hey, look what they provided for his backpack journalism:
There’s the Canon SD1000 for stills (the same model I already carry everywhere); a nice Panasonic 3-chip camcorder (consumer, not pro-sumer…we need to remain portable, you know); shotgun [...]
Today NPR’s On the Media aired its report on citizen journalism and crowdsourcing via Jeff Jarvis’s Networked Journalism Summit, which I attended early this week. They got it mostly right, but reporter Bob Garfield got Jay Rosen in a Gotcha moment. Garfield’s reporting basically makes NewAssignment.net’s Assignment Zero sound like a complete a bust, a failure. Of [...]
What to see an aggregate of what is being said at the Network Journalism Summit, go here. The slug is NetJ at Technorati.
Here is are some of the issues Jeff Jarvis says he sees overriding parts of the conversation at the panels so far:
Power of print still important at many of the websites, need to work out financial [...]
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.