Jessica McBride from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, is doing a presentation on Using “blog talk radio” in the classroom at the Convergence and Society:The Participatory Web conference at the University of South Carolina.
BlogTalkRadio has been around for a couple of years. One of my students actually became quite good at running his own show and [...]
Their sample is small, developed from mining Pew Internet & American Life Project 2005 research, but early indications from a study by Bartosz Wojdynski and Jessica Smith from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill indicate that:
It’s clear African Americans are sharing content in large numbers.
In fact, African Americans are producing more content proportionally [...]
I am at the Convergence and Society: Participatory Web Conference today at the University of South Carolina. I will finally get to see the IFRANewsplex here. I will seek out more links as the day goes on.
Alex Blumberg, a producer for This American Life, who along with Adam Davidson reported and produced “The Giant Pool of Money,” has advice for how to produce in-depth stories on big issues often glossed over by the Mainstream Media.
“The Giant Pool of Money,” produced in May 2008, is a fantastic piece of radio journalism that [...]
Long time public journalism advocate Steven A. Smith’s resignation as editor of the Spokane Spokesman-Review becomes effective today October 3, 2008.
In an interview with Michele McLellan he said:
The journalism that’s important to me is no longer possible…It is no longer my job or our job to save newspapers. Our job is to save journalism and [...]
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.