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 [...]
This from Crain’s New York Business.com:
The Tow Foundation will give $3 million to the City University of New York’s Graduate School of Journalism and $5 million to the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
The City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism are expected to announce [...]
Bill O’Reilly, the fake news guy who carries Rupert Murdoch’s water at Fox News, called me a lunatic. Indeed, he called all the 3,500 people who attended the Media Reform Conference in Minneapolis lunatics.
As you probably know, Murdoch’s News Corporation owns Fox News and apparently owns O’Reilly too. Murdoch can bully people in goverment, but [...]
A New York Times business section story took a particularly grim view of the present state and future prospects of the newspaper industry. Here is just one bitter taste:
In 2007, combined print and online ad revenue fell about 7 percent. In the last six decades, only one other year — 2001, when there was a [...]
A couple of days ago, I blogged about Robert Scoble combining Twitter and livestreamingas a way of involving audience in real time interviews. Afterwards, Shelby Highsmith, aka, the shelbinator , an MTV StreetTeam08 citizen journalist covering the 2008 presidential race, said he will be doing the same on Super Tuesday. You can watch or even join his experiment. I asked [...]
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.