Citizen journalism training is taking place here, there and everywhere, including Philadelphia, Chicago, Egypt, Senagal, Kenya, Cambodia, South Korea, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Colombia, India, and Sierra Leone. See the round up at MediaShift’s Idea Lab. Here is what is happening with the Latino immigrant community in Philadelphia.
Every time I tout citizen journalism, I say it is an [...]
I am running my videos about the future of media. Here is another video suggested by Tom Warhover:
This from a Knight Foundation press release:
PBS and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation today debuted the MediaShift Idea Lab blog a group blog featuring 36 wide-ranging innovators reinventing community news for the digital age.
Each Idea Lab blogger won a grant in the Knight News Challenge to help fund a startup idea or to [...]
Mark Glaser at MediaShift.org asked me to critique the student work at News21 2007, the Carnegie-Knight Initiative on the Future of Journalism Education, as he did last year. Here is his story with some quotes from me, and my extended thoughts on News21 are below:
My first reaction to reading Faces of Faith in America was, my god, the central tenets [...]
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.