On Sunday night at 5 p.m. I was a member of the last of three concurrent panels at the Decatur Book Festival in Decatur, Ga. The topic of the panel: The Future of Newspapers.
I anticipated that maybe a couple of dozen people might show up. So I was a bit nonplussed when I came [...]
Ah, it was a good day at Kennesaw State University. More than 70 of our Department of Communication students were among the approximately 1,600 students who graduated from the university today. Later in the day the AT&T Foundation presented the department with a $47,500 check to underwrite new equipment for our Digital Media Lab.
It’s the [...]
The old board game Careers has some lessons that individual journalists, who are worried about their futures, might consider. That’s just one piece of advice I plucked from a phone conversation I had this morning with Ruth Ann Harnisch, president of the Harnisch Family Foundation, which is helping underwrite our Representative Journalism project in Northfield, [...]
Next week at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) convention in Chicago, Aug 6-9, 2008, I will be talking to people interested in applying for this job:
tenure-track Assistant Professor of Communication with a focus on Journalism and Citizen Media at Kennesaw State University.
Of course, anyone qualified is encouraged to apply, whether or not [...]
Amani Channel, the man behind MyUrbanReport.com, was busy at our SoCon08 conference Friday and Saturday, Feb. 8-9, 2008 hosting a dinner table conversation, providing an afternoon workshop on video and, of course, what else…shooting a video of the conference. He is fast; he was uploading part of the event video as the conference progressed. So enough [...]
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.