Michael Maier, founder and CEO of Blogform Publishing, provides insight into the possiblities of citizen journalism’s future in a discussion paper entitled Journalism without Journalists: Vision or Caricature? He wrote it for the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University.
Here are highligths, starting with Maier writing about one of his own [...]
Anyone who has written for any publication knows that not all editors are created equally. A few are great, a few are terrible and most are good at one kind of editing, but not another. So maybe it is time to outsource editing by tradining up rather than trading down. See my post at Representative [...]
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 [...]
Over at the Representative Journalism site, I posted a model on how a hyperlocal journalist could also be, or, in fact, could be mandated to be a national or international star. Don’t feel like reading about it, then watch the the video below or better yet, watch the video and read the post for more [...]
This from a Pew Internet & American Life Project survey report:
A telephone survey conducted in February-March 2007 found that fully 83% of online Americans say they have used the internet to seek information about their hobbies and 29% do so on a typical day. Looking for information about hobbies is among the most popular online [...]
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.