Last week at the New England News Forum I made a 25-minute presentation explaining my Representative Journalism concept. You can see it below, it is very YouTube in quality. Here is Dan Kennedy, a Northeastern University journalism professor who writes the Media Nation blog, reacting to my presentation.
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Also the forum […]
Starting now community foundations can begin to apply for the five-year, $24-million Knight Community Information Challenge. So maybe if you, as a local citizen journalist, have an idea that could use funding this might be a very good time to drop by and see your local community foundation, which might not have a clue and […]
David Cohn and I have been exchanging ideas for months about his Spot.us project for funding journalism projects and my Representative Journalism project for getting communities journalists. Now both of us are moving from the talking stages to the action stages. Both Spot.us and the RepJ.Net have been funded.
Now the RepJ.Net is about ready […]
In a PBS NewsHour report focused on nonprofit funding of the news, especially ProPublica for investigative reporting, Alex Jones, director of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University, says:
I’ve been watching ProPublica. I think ProPublica is a great development in this area. But I am saddened by something […]
Look, I am no fan of Sam Zell and what he is doing at the LA Times and Chicago Tribune, however I was taken by an interview at Atlantic.com with one of his minions, Lee Abrams, the chief innovation officer at the Tribune company.
Abrams was surprised that the company had a Iraq reporter and more […]
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.