There is a bit of a dust-up at Jeff Jarvis’s Buzzmachine about GateHouse suing Boston.com over its linking to GateHouse stories. Of course, this is a suit worth watching and discussing because if GateHouse wins, it would have major ramifications across the web.
Most of what is being written at the Buzzmachine post is that the [...]
After the Journalism that Matters wrapped up its New Pamphleteers/New Reporters sessions on Friday, June 6, 2008, a select group of the participants went to Minnesota Public Radio studios to record a discussion entitled: “What do citizens want from citizen media.” You can hear it here.
Also earlier in the day, MPR loaned Journalism That [...]
Interested in making your own media and becoming what is now called a placeblogger? Listen as 12 folks, including me, provide first-hand information.
Here is what host Bill Densmore of the Media Giraffe Project writes:
What motivates people to launch a local online news community — a “placeblog” and what are their challenges, their successes, the [...]
I just yesterday returned from the Media Reform conference in Minneapolis where Bill Moyers’ made, as usual a deeply inspirational speech, telling how it is all of our tasks to rekindle the dream on which the USA was built and the need for journalism to keep us well informed.
Then on Monday, the New York Times reported [...]
Joel Kramer is talking live at the Journalism that Matters discussion with Mike Tippet and Michelle Ferrier. He says if his MinnPost project is a example for funding journalism enterprises then it is a “grim business model.” The future is not real positive if we want a newsroom populated with professionals.
Update: June 5, 2008: I [...]
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.