Jay Rosen has been saying it for a while, now you can hear it again in a New York Times article quoting Robin Sloan, an online product strategist for Al Gore’s Current.Tv:
“If you build it, they will not necessarily come. We have, a number of times, assumed that if we built the Web architecture for citizen […]
I am running my videos about the future of media. Here is another video suggested by Tom Warhover:
I finally got around to reading the New York Times article entitled: Why Big Newspapers Applaud Some Declines in Circulation . We all know the platitudes about the reason for newspaper journalism is to save democracy, but, let’s face it, for the people running newspapers, the reason is to sell advertising. If advertisers are not […]
Today at the Representative Journalism site I explain how the St. Petersburg Times has a Representative Journalist in its midst without even realizing it and by capitalizing on it, they could save journalism and maybe even a manatee or two.
Photo from: www.biminiringgame.com/images/manatee.jpg
Some of you might have noticed that today I have taken a rather strong stand on protecting free speech. Here are the two headlines that reflect my feelings:
Let’s start first with my Op-Ed piece today that was published in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Congress can’t muzzle free speech: Condemning Petraeus critics, lawmakers ignore Constitution
The second is my […]
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.