Today is the Public Journalism Networks first birthday. So it is time to give a state of the network address, which is also a partial draft of a presentation I will be making at Rutgers University in February:
A year ago today 24 of the top thinking public journalism advocates came together at Kennesaw State [...]
The age of the mass media is just that an age. It doesnt have to last forever.
Jay Rosen–Panel Notes: Will Mainstream Media Co-opt Blogs and the Internet?
2004 World Economic Forum, Thursday 22 January
Davos, Switzerland
Christopher Allbritton’s blogging audience paid him to cover the war in Iraq. Now see the Online Journalism Review story about Joshua Micah Marshall of Talking Points Memo, whose audience sent him to cover the New Hampshire primaries. Also see First Draft by Tim Porter where Porter writes:
A new form of public journalism is [...]
Cole Campbell, public journalist and former editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, asks at Jay Rosen’s PressThink:
Who created the frontrunner dethroned in Iowa for a new front runner?
His answer is reflected in his introduction:
It was the campaign press. But on the morning after, the campaign press pretends it does not exist.
Adding:
In [...]
There are couple of recently published books dealing with public journalism, one by Lew Friedland: Public Journalism: Past and Future (Kettering Foundation Press: 2003); and the other by David K. Perry: Roots of Civic Journalism: Darwin, Dewey, and Mead (Rowman and Littlefield Pub Inc: 2003) that should be reviewed here.
If you have 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.