Jay Rosen and the Huffington Post’s OffTheBus is a great way to get student work published nationally. Grayson Daughters, a student of life, has helped produce a couple of grassroots videos –one Republican oriented, one Democratic oriented – for the project, and her work would give students an idea of one technical approach, albeit a fairly standard newscast format.
Students need not go [...]
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 [...]
David Ryfe, associate professor at the Reynolds School of Journalism, University of Nevada, Reno, points us to the school’s graduate program entitled: Interactive Environmental Journalism.
The program description includes this:
Our professional graduate program is an intensive 10-month immersion in thinking about, experimenting with and creating new forms of journalism…
We are focusing on Lake Tahoe and its surrounding communities [...]
The New York Times posed an interesting question on its Op-Ed pages yesterday. It asked new-media gurus if they could run the presidential candidate debates:
What would a real new-media debate look like?
The Op-Ed page editors writing of the recent YouTube/CNN debate said:
…the format was still basically the same one that’s been used for nearly 50 [...]
Tomorrow I will be helping host the Journalism that Matters DC session and probably talking up an idea I have been privately developing for the last few months. I am calling it Representative Journalism.
I was hoping to have a Representative Journalism site up and running at which we all could vet the idea over the [...]
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.