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On February 14, 2004, the Atlanta Journal Constitution wrote a story entitled: Critics punch at touch-screen voting security. As I said in wrote back : ”…we have a hard enough time finding the resources to cover public fraud that we already have ample evidence exists.”
Yesterday, the New York Times wrote its front page story [...]

I will be at a winter meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) at Rutgers University to give a panel presentation entitled: Is Public Journalism Morphing into the Public’s Journalism? Will post the finalized presesentation next week.
Depending on the set up at the meeting will try to blog from [...]

Whenever journalists in the US dismiss the worth of listening to everyday people talking, I always think about totalitarian governments. Everyday people talking, especially in groups, scares tyrants into immediate repressive action.
If tyrants understand the power of everyday people speaking, why don’t journalists in a democracy understand it. See this LA Times story about [...]

I originally wanted to title this San Francisco Chronicle, It’s Just Across the Bay Stupid. Read this eye-opening brief to find out why:
Romenesko points us to the San Francisco Chronicle story that began with a reader complaining about the paper’s photo selection. An editorial assistant was asked to do an ethnicity inventory based on [...]

The transcript of the Gatekeepers No More panel with Jay Rosen, Dan Gillmor, and Jeff Jarvis is now posted. It was recorded at the O’Reilly Digital Democracy Teach-In held in San Diego, CA, on February 9, 2004.
Interesting stuff, for example, Gillmor says that grassroots journalism is not the biggest threat to Big Media, rather [...]