A couple of years ago the Civic Journalism Interest Group in the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) changed its name to the Civic and Citizen Journalism Interest Group. Now Susan Keith, 2007-2008 AEJMC Newspaper Division head, is asking if the Newspaper Division should change its name. She has started a very lively […]
McClatchyNext is billed as a:
A shared wiki for McClatchy journalists and others to talk about the way ahead for news, news companies and people who care about them.
If you have not done, so I would recommend a visit, lots of interesting conversations happening at this wiki and you can join the conversation. Here is more:
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In a PBS NewsHour report focused on nonprofit funding of the news, especially ProPublica for investigative reporting, Alex Jones, director of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University, says:
I’ve been watching ProPublica. I think ProPublica is a great development in this area. But I am saddened by something […]
Today I just finished hanging around at the WETA News Academy 2008 in Washington, D.C. I was there as a presenter and observer because I fully believe that PBS is the place for my Representative Journalism concept to take hold. So like Johnny Appleseed, I am going everywhere planting the seeds.
In addition, we are now aiming to have a Representative Journalist […]
If you are looking to do community news online or have a placeblog, you might want to attend the Journalism that Matters Conference in Minneapolis –June 4-6, 2008. I’ll be there and, in fact, this PJNet.org site will probably go mostly gray until then as I take a blogging break.
Here is more about the conference:
One […]
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.