Kate Parry, senior editor/politics and education at the St. Paul Pioneer Press. PJNet exclusive story about the civic journalism movement in Japan:
Circulation was slowly declining and regional newspaper editors worried
encroaching national newspapers would take a deeper bite out of their
numbers. They were beginning to experiment with a movement [...]
I have been reading Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software by Steven Johnson. In there is a passage about Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, the Jesuit priest, paleontologist, philosopher and in my mind a poet.
I first read his work in the 1970s and frankly have not been back much since. So [...]
The First National Public Journalism Network conference is now scheduled for August 3, 2004 in Toronto and will precede the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass CommunicationÂ’s (AEJMC) annual convention. The PJNet conference officially begins at 1 p.m. but there will be an early bird special for those who want to discuss the technology [...]
Jeremy Iggers has launched his new weblog as part of the PJNet collective entitled:
Is Journalism Dead?
Notes on News, Democracy, and the Pictures Inside our Heads
Here is the beginning of his first post:
In recent years, many of the most eminent figures in American journalism… have spoken out, warning of dire consequences for American democracy [...]
Google evidently ignores meta tags, so that a search for public journalism network doesn’t bring up pjnet.org till the very end.
Plenty of other sites are linking here, such as Poynter’s Resource page and the Civic Journalism Interest Groups web sites page, so it seems odd.
I’m not quite sure how to remedy this. PJNet, PJNet.org, [...]
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.