There is a series of video interviews at MediaShift that every aspiring journalist should watch. Most are saying be an ethical, skilled journalist first but understand the changing landscape and be able to use some of the new tools.
If most the of the answers are predictable, Len Brody, CEO and co-founder of NowPublic.com, takes [...]
This from the Grand Forks Herald:
UND officials announced plans Friday to dissolve UND’s School of Communication and relocate its faculty and staff to other departments within the university.
Apparently the school has been dysfunctional for sometime and so University of North Dakota officials decided dissolving the school was the best plan of action. Here is commentary [...]
Bill Kovach, who is a senior counselor to the Project for Excellence in Journalism and a founder of the Committee of Concerned Journalists, poses 12 questions about the future of journalism. The full list can be found at the American Scholar website. Here are two on which I spending more and more time addressing and [...]
Jay Rosen recently gave a speech entitled: If Blogging Had No Ethics, Blogging Would Have Failed
(But It Didn’t. So Let’s Get a Clue).
You can see the video here and his notes and other comments here at PressThink.
This from the International Journalists’ Network:
Environmental journalists worldwide can now use a 3D-environmental Web site launched by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and Google Earth to monitor environmental hotspots and the impact of climate change on the planet, and highlight this information in their stories.
The site allows users to look closely at more than 200 [...]
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.