Miller-Clune, a magazine with the catch line, Turning Research into Solutions, posted an article recently entitled: The Bottom Line for Nonprofit News. The article list a plethora of new nonprofit start-ups around the country, including Representative Journalism. Will they succeed? Here is what Geoff Dougherty, founder and editor of the start-up Chi-Town Daily News, says:
“I feel [...]
Here is the first sentence of the State of the News Media 2008 report by the Project for Excellence in Journalism:
The state of the American news media in 2008 is more troubled than a year ago.
Here are highlights from the introduction (I will have more over the next couple of days):
Even with so many [...]
Chris Densmore, Chris Peck and I spent a big part of yesterday with our Northfield, Minnesota collaborators at Locally Grown, where the first Representative Journalismexperiment will take place. What a great group of people they are: Griff Wigley, Tracy Davis and Ross Currier. You can see and hear us on a podcast from the local radio [...]
Maurreen Skowran provides a short list of sites and reports aimed at trying to “rehabiliate’ journalism. Representative Journalism is on the list. Speaking of which, Bill Densmore, Chris Peck and I are on my way to Minnesota to meet with our partners at Locally Grown, where we will conduct the first Representative Journalism experiment. More on that later.
When I read Rodney Brooks’ book Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us, I was struck by one insight. He wrote that Japan has an aging population, it will need help from Third-World immigrants. However, it does not want a flood of immigrants. So, Brooks says that they are trying to develop robot like [...]
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.