Jay Rosen in the video below quotes Karl Marx: A revolution is when the means of production changes hands. Well in publishing that’s what happened. The means of production changed hands.
Rosen’s magic fact is built on: The falling costs of people with the same interests to meet each other, share information, collaborate and [...]
Fast Company ran a story last week with this subhead, introduction:
The most successful hybrid of old and new media comes from the last place you’d expect. How NPR’s digital smarts, nonprofit structure, and good old-fashioned shoe leather just might save the news.
Here is a key passage about the state of NPR:
In one of [...]
It’s sad, but fitting that an old white guy, Editor and Publisher Roger Oglesby, bids good-bye to the Seattle P-I, as it goes to press for the last time before going online only tomorrow.
Compare this video with this upbeat, let’s bring out the talking points of the future of online journalism commentary by Michelle [...]
The State of the News Media 2009 report states emphatically:
This is the sixth edition of our annual report on the State of the News Media in the United States.
It is also the bleakest.
Here is where the hope resides:
The problem facing American journalism is not fundamentally an audience problem or a credibility problem. It [...]
Clay Shirky writes that the unthinkable, a world without newspapers, is the reality. Here is what is key to me:
Society doesn’t need newspapers. What we need is journalism. For a century, the imperatives to strengthen journalism and to strengthen newspapers have been so tightly wound as to be indistinguishable. That’s been a fine accident [...]
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.