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 […]
Arianna Huffington made plenty of news this past week when she told the world that she was about to take the Huffington Post local to places like Chicago.
Today I came across this quote she made that is worth noting:
“This is one the major problems of old media. The illusion of presenting two sides of a story […]
The Guardian provides a wealth of stories, videos and podcasts from its Future of Journalism symposium.
Here is a quote from Adrian Holovaty, renowned journalism web developer:
“Journalism is broken,” he said - not because of citizen reporters or matters of privacy, but because journalists collect so much information and then don’t exploit it, while Google does.
There’s […]
Today I just finished hanging around at the WETA News Academy 2008 in Washington, D.C. I was there as a presenter and observer because I fully believe that PBS is the place for my Representative Journalism concept to take hold. So like Johnny Appleseed, I am going everywhere planting the seeds.
In addition, we are now aiming to have a Representative Journalist […]
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.